Facebook Cookbook

Cookie Table

Problem

What’s the schema for the cookie table?

Solution

The cookie table holds all of the browser cookies that your app has dropped. Its fields are listed in Table 8-3. There’s no way to use this table to access cookies that other apps or Facebook might have dropped, so your queries will only return results for your app. More information about this table, including an up-to-date listing of fields, can be found at http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Cookies_(FQL).

Table 8-3. cookie table fields

Name	Type	Index	Description
uid	int	•	uid (user ID) associated with this cookie. This is the ID of the user who was using your application when the cookie was dropped.
name	string		Name of the cookie.
value	string		Value of the cookie.
expires	int		Expiry timestamp for the cookie. The cookie never expires if this is empty.
path	string		Path relative to your app’s callback URL with which the cookie is associated (i.e., if your app’s callback is http://www.someserver.com/myapp/ and the path is friends/add.php, then it was dropped by the page http://www.someserver.com/myapp/friends/add.php).

Note that only the field marked as “Index” in this table can be used in an FQL query’s WHERE clause, but any of the fields can appear in the SELECT.

Discussion

If you’d rather use the API to access cookies, try the Data.getCookies() and Data.setCookie() methods.