PHP can't remove cookie that was set by JavaScript

Question

Is it possible to remove cookie that was set on front via JS with PHP?

I'm doing this:

*FRONT (JS):

if ($.cookie('myCookie'))
{
   console.log('Cookie.. :(  ');
}
else
{
    console.log('Yaay! No cookie!');
    $.cookie('myCookie', '123');
}

BACK (PHP):

if (isset($_REQUEST['removeCookie']))
{
   setcookie("myCookie", "", time()-3600);
   unset($_COOKIE['myCookie']);
}

Result:

Seems like it's a mistery

Answer 1

You can't force the browser to delete the cookie file. You can, however, delete the contents of the cookie and expire it. Which is exactly what you're doing with your code above. I would probably tweak it slightly:

setcookie('myCookie', '', 1, '/'); // no need to calculate one hour ago.