Cookie

Cookie provides a small encrypted wrapper around PHP cookies.

Use it when you want to read and write cookie values through Quantum instead of working with raw $_COOKIE and setcookie(...) calls.

What it provides

• Quantum\Cookie\Cookie storage wrapper
• cookie() helper as the standard entry point
• automatic encryption on write and decryption on read

Quick example

cookie()->set('theme', 'dark', 3600, '/', '', true, true);

if (cookie()->has('theme')) {
    $theme = cookie()->get('theme');
}

cookie()->delete('theme');

Operational constraints

• values are encrypted before they are written and decrypted when they are read
• set() stores the value in the current request storage immediately and also sends a Set-Cookie header
• time is treated as seconds from now; 0 creates a session cookie
• has() treats empty values as missing, so '', 0, '0', false, and null do not count as present
• get() depends on has(), so those values come back as null