25829PHP: Sessionhttp://www.phptutorial.info/learn/session.htmlThe first time a user accesses to a our pages some connections and disconnections took place. During this process the server and the client will interchange information to identify each other. Due to this exchange of information our server will be able to identify a specific user and this information may be use to assign specific information to each specific client. This relationship between computers is call a session. During the time a session is active, it is possible to assign information to a specific client by using Session related commands. After a few minutes, the session will expire, so that information will be lost.PHP > Tips and Tutorials > Cookies and SessionsOct 15, 2006
Building web applications with membership management is one of the most frequent tasks that every programmer does. Managing membership data, such as username, password and the member's profile with sessions in PHP is the easiest and simplest solution, although it is not the only one.
PHP allows you to set up a session and store session variables. After you create a session, the session variables are available for your use on any other Web page. To make session information available, PHP does the following:
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Copy and paste the following code into your body tags and run it (code comments are included).
If you want to see the live result, try it here (new window).
This script set a cookie to save the user information sent by an online form. The online form is displayed only if the cookies has been saved.
Cookies are simply files stored in a special temporary location determined by your web browser (like Internet Explorer) which allow public information to be stored for your benefit usually. By public information, this can entail any information that you have entered into forms on websites, or certain non-identifying information such as your IP address or user agent.
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