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Understanding Sessions

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.

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Saving Multiple Values in One Cookie

Learn how to store multiple values (array) in one cookie.

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Check If Cookies are Allowed or Blocked

This code snippet demonstrates how to test if the cookies are enabled on the client or not.

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Setting a Cookie with Language Preference

Learn a very basic PHP trick for setting up a cookie for a multilingual website.

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Escaping Special Characters and Quotes in Cookies

What is the difference between setcookie() and setrawcookie() function?

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Understanding HTTP Cookies

How to send and retrieve data as part of the HTTP header in the form of a cookie.

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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.

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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.

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Truncate text to a specific length

In this code snippet, we’ll cut long strings short without truncating the text midword.