Cookies & Sessions

Cookies are just a basic aspect of PHP, but can be used in so many things. From logging in and out a user on your website to keeping the name of the skin they use on your website. Below I will explain how to set (add) a cookie, delete one and then display/check one. I will first show the PHP code and then explain it.

In this tutorial I will show you how to work with sessions in PHP. You will learn how to transfer information over multiple pages.

This package can be used to save and restore objects in session variables. It can register a list of one or more classes objects that are intended to be saved. The classes must implement the SessionObject interface. The class can call all the registered classes to save and restore the state of the session objects.

This script can display a form or the data stored inside cookies depending on whether cookies has been set or not. The online form is used to send data and store them inside cookies. The script contains an online example.

A cookie is a message given to a Web browser by a Web server. The browser stores the message in a small text file that the server embeds on the user's computer. Each time the same computer requests a page with a browser, the cookie is sent back to the server too. The main purpose of cookies is to identify users and possibly prepare customized Web pages for them. In this tutorial you'll learn about using Cookies in PHP.

PHP has a function setcookie since version 3.0, but this function is too low-level for simple usage. Function ae_put_cookie provided, sets cookie for current domain without specifying long arguments lists. Just three arguments: 'name', 'value', session cookie flag/number of days/forever cookie flag

A collection of 19 tips on understanding and using sessions in PHP. Clear explanations and tutorial exercises are provided on starting and closing sessions, saving and retrieving values in sessions, deciding how session IDs to be transferred, deciding where to store session files, deciding when to expire session values, etc. Topics included in this collections: What Is a Session? How To Turn On the Session Support? How To Save/Retrieve Values to the Current Session? What Is a Session ID? How To Retrieve the Session ID of the Current Session? What Are the Options to Transfer Session IDs? How Session IDs Are Transferred on Your Web Server? How To Force the PHP Engine to Use Cookies to Transfer Session IDs? Is It More Secure to Use Cookies to Transfer Session IDs? Where Are the Session Values Stored? What Set the Timeout Period on Session Values? How To Remove Values Saved in the Current Session? How To Tell If a Session Is New? What Is session_register()?

A collection of 23 tips on understanding and managing cookies in PHP. Clear explanations and tutorial exercises are provided on setting and receiving cookies, creating and removing persistent cookies, specifying domain and path to restrict cookies, finding cookies in cookie files, cookie limitations: How To Send and receive a Cookie to the Browser? How To Set a Persistent Cookie? How To Remove a Cookie? How To Specify Domain and Path for a Cookie? How Cookies Are Transported from Servers to Browsers? How To View Cookie Header Lines? Where Are the Persistent Cookies Stored on Your Computer? How To View the Content of a Cookie File? How Many Cookies Can You Set? How Large Can a Single Cookie Be? How Are Cookies Encoded During Transportation? How Can Other Webmaster Steal Your Cookies? ......

A quick introduction to PHP sessions and the use of the most basic session handling functions.

Cookies enabled web developers to produce more usable sites, by allowing temporary storage of commonly used information by the user. This can be beneficial in shopping carts, user logon systems and general site usage. Read on to find out how to use cookies and how to implement a simple user logon system.

According to the cookie specification, any cookie set for one domain, must not be sent to any other domain. Therefore, if you set a cookie in your user's browser on one domain, that cookie will not be available on any other domain. This tutorial describes a solution to get around this issue.

This document describes how to customize the session handlers in PHP4. It provides examples of how to write a fully functional session handler that works with DBM files and one that works with a MySQL database.

Explains how to set and check for cookies using PHP. Also demonstrates a simple way to read and write data to a file.