7.7. Cookies
Cookies are small strings of data created by a Web server but stored on the client. In addition to having names and values, cookies have an expiration time. Some are set to last for only a matter of minutes. Others persist for months. This allows sites to recognize you without requiring a password when you return. To learn more about cookies, you may wish to visit Netscape's site <http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/communicator/jsguide4/cookies.htm>.
Using cookies with PHP is almost as easy as using form fields. Any cookies passed from the browser to the server are converted automatically into entries in _COOKIE and _REQUEST.
If you wish to send a cookie, you use the setcookie function, described in Chapter 8. The Web server ...
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