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COOKIES Consultancy
SESSION IN PHP

web Engineering ||

winter 2017
wahidullah Mudaser  Lecture 08
[email protected]
 Cookies & Session
INDEX
 Cookies
 Brief overview
 Limitation
 Privacy
 Type of cookies
 Manage cookies
 Sessions
 Brief overview
 HTTP Session Token
 Session Advantages

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cookies
 A cookie is a small text file that contains a small
amount of information about a user visiting your
site and is stored on the site visitor's computer by
their browser.

 Because the cookie is stored on the user’s


computer, it does not require any server space no
matter how many users you have.

 You can use cookies to save user preferences,


customize data, remember the last visit, or to keep
track of items in an order while a user browses.
Create a cookie
 A cookie is created with the setcookie() function.

 S
PHP Create/Retrieve a Cookie
 The following example creates a cookie named "user" with the value “Ahmad".

 The cookie will expire after 30 days (86400 * 30). The "/" means that the cookie is
available in entire website (otherwise, select the directory you prefer).

 We then retrieve the value of the cookie "user" (using the global variable
$_COOKIE).
 We also use the isset() function to find out if the cookie is set:
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<?php
$cookie_name = "user";
$cookie_value = "Ahmad";
setcookie($cookie_name, $cookie_value, time() + (86400 * 30), "/"); // 86400 = 1 day
?>
<html>
<body>
<?php
if(!isset($_COOKIE[$cookie_name])) {
echo "Cookie named '" . $cookie_name . "' is not set!";
} else {
echo "Cookie '" . $cookie_name . "' is set!<br>";
echo "Value is: " . $_COOKIE[$cookie_name];}
?>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> You might have to reload the page to see the value of the
cookie.</p>
</body>
</html>
DELETE COOKIE
PHP SESSION
 When you work with an application, you open it, do some changes, and then you
close it. This is much like a Session.
 The computer knows when you start the application and when you end.
 But on the internet there is one problem: the web server does not know who you
are or what you do, because the HTTP address doesn't maintain state.

 Session variables solve this problem by storing user information to be used across
multiple pages (e.g. username, favorite color, etc).

 By default, session variables last until the user closes the browser.
Start a PHP Session
 A session is started with the session_start() function.
 Session variables are set with the PHP global variable: $_SESSION.

 Example:
Get PHP Session Variable Values

 Notice that session variables are not passed individually to each new page, instead
they are retrieved from the session we open at the beginning of each page
(session_start()).
 Also notice that all session variable values are stored in the global $_SESSION
variable:

OR
Destroy a PHP Session
 To remove all global session variables and destroy the session, use session_unset()
and session_destroy():
Questions?

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