What exactly does the Codeignitor get_cookie() helper return?

[eluser]ray023[/eluser]
[quote author="noctrum" date="1283292909"]...it takes less time to test the return value than it does to go to the forum...[/quote]

Not necessarily. Had you answered the question, I would have had my answer immediately when I searched the forum and came across this thread.

Instead, you ask a rhetorical question that, IMHO, came off with an air of arrogance.

Please bear in mind, that some visitors to this site may not only be new to CI, but new to PHP and coding in general.

Or, on the flipside, maybe someone is wondering if the set/get cookie method did something a little more robust that the documentation did not cover.

The CI community has done such an outstanding job in documenting, that maybe it has somewhat spoiled its users with the mass amount of detail that's covered in this great framework. And I think that's why a question like the one above is a valid one.

Regardless, an informative reply to even a stupid question would be better than sarcastic one.

And that’s my point.