PHP: 20 Lessons to Successful Web Development

Authentication, Sessions, and Ajax

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In this final lesson, we’ll look at ways to keep track of the state of a user’s interaction with a website (perhaps the contents of a shopping cart, or just their username and password) and maintain it across all pages on that site, by first authenticating users and then managing their access to your server with sessions.

   Then we’ll finish off by conducting background Ajax communications between a browser and web server. ...