Title: Requests_Cookie::parse
Published: August 16, 2016
Last modified: November 2, 2022

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# Requests_Cookie::parse( $string,  $name = '',  $reference_time = null ): 󠀁[Requests_Cookie](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/requests_cookie/)󠁿

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/requests_cookie/parse/?output_format=md#description)
 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/requests_cookie/parse/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Return](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/requests_cookie/parse/?output_format=md#return)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/requests_cookie/parse/?output_format=md#source)

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Parse a cookie string into a cookie object

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/requests_cookie/parse/?output_format=md#description)󠁿

Based on Mozilla’s parsing code in Firefox and related projects, which is an intentional
deviation from RFC 2109 and RFC 2616. RFC 6265 specifies some of this handling, 
but not in a thorough manner.

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/requests_cookie/parse/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

Cookie header value (from a Set-Cookie header)

## 󠀁[Return](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/requests_cookie/parse/?output_format=md#return)󠁿

 [Requests_Cookie](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/requests_cookie/)
Parsed cookie object

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/requests_cookie/parse/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/requests/cookie.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.0/src/wp-includes/Requests/Cookie.php#L387)

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