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PHP 8 Basics: For Programming and Web Development
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PHP 8 Basics: For Programming and Web Development

by Gunnard Engebreth, Satej Kumar Sahu
December 2022
Beginner content levelBeginner
335 pages
4h 30m
English
Apress
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© Gunnard Engebreth, Satej Kumar Sahu 2023
G. Engebreth, S. K. SahuPHP 8 Basicshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8082-9_7

7. Sessions and Cookies

Gunnard Engebreth1   and Satej Kumar Sahu2
(1)
Madison, WI, USA
(2)
Bangalore, India
 

In the previous chapters, you learned how to use arrays, one of the most versatile and useful elements in PHP, to store multiple values within a single variable. Let’s now imagine you need to store some information to be used across multiple web pages. You need to store some information on a local computer (client side) or store some information on a server (server side) for just a certain time using the web page. How would you do this? By using sessions and cookies.

The main difference between sessions and cookies is that ...

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