A session is a way to identify and manage the state of a particular user. HTTP does not know any kind of session mechanism; the protocol is stateless. However, PHP comes with built-in session support that makes it fairly easy to use sessions.
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Saving Form Data into a Cookie
How to use cookies to store/save form data.
Saving Multiple Values in One Cookie
Learn how to store multiple values (array) in one cookie.
Check If Cookies are Allowed or Blocked
This code snippet demonstrates how to test if the cookies are enabled on the client or not.
Setting a Cookie with Language Preference
Learn a very basic PHP trick for setting up a cookie for a multilingual website.
What is the difference between setcookie() and setrawcookie() function?
Understanding HTTP Cookies
How to send and retrieve data as part of the HTTP header in the form of a cookie.
Checksum Strings and Files with MD5 and SHA1
How to generate a checksum (hash signature) to encrypt or verify if two copies of a string or file are identical in all respects.
Search and Replace Unicode Accents
Many foreign languages, such as Turkish, Spanish, and most other European languages have accented letters. In this tutorial, we’ll replace the accented characters with their relevant characters, for example, é with e.
Truncate text to a specific length
In this code snippet, we’ll cut long strings short without truncating the text midword.