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PHP Cookies and Session

The document discusses cookies and sessions in web engineering. Cookies are small files stored on a user's computer that contain identifying information. Sessions allow storing temporary user information on the server. The PHP $_COOKIE and $_SESSION variables are used to retrieve cookie and session data. Sessions require calling session_start() and variables are stored and retrieved from $_SESSION.

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PHP Cookies and Session

The document discusses cookies and sessions in web engineering. Cookies are small files stored on a user's computer that contain identifying information. Sessions allow storing temporary user information on the server. The PHP $_COOKIE and $_SESSION variables are used to retrieve cookie and session data. Sessions require calling session_start() and variables are stored and retrieved from $_SESSION.

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4/6/2010

Web Engineering by Hassan Khan

 A cookie is often used to identify a user.


 A cookie is a small file that the server embeds
on the user's computer.
 Each time the same computer requests a
page with a browser, it will send the cookie
too.

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 setcookie(name, value, expire, path,


domain);

 setcookie("user", “Hassan", time()+3600);

 $expire=time()+60*60*24*30;
setcookie("user", “Hassan", $expire);

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 The PHP $_COOKIE variable is used to retrieve a cookie value.

 // Print a cookie
echo $_COOKIE["user"];

// A way to view all cookies


print_r($_COOKIE);

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 A PHP session variable is used to store


information about, or change settings for a
user session.
 Session variables hold information about one
single user, and are available to all pages in
one application.
 However, session information is temporary
and will be deleted after the user has left the
website.

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 The session_start() function must appear


BEFORE the <html> tag:

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 The correct way to store and retrieve session


variables is to use the PHP $_SESSION
variable.

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 The isset() function checks if the "views"


variable has already been set.

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 If "views" has been set, we can increment our


counter. If "views" doesn't exist, we create a
"views" variable, and set it to 1

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unset()
The unset() function is used to free the
specified session variable.

session_destroy()
You can also completely destroy the session by
calling the session_destroy() function

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