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PHP for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, Fifth Edition
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PHP for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, Fifth Edition

by Larry Ullman
June 2016
Beginner
528 pages
17h 21m
English
Peachpit Press
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9. Cookies and Sessions

Chapter 8, “Creating Web Applications,” covered a number of techniques for developing more fully realized websites. One missing piece—the focus of this chapter—is how to maintain “state” as the user traverses a multipage site. The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a stateless technology, meaning that it has no built-in method for tracking a user or remembering data from one page of an application to the next. This is a serious problem, because e-commerce applications, user registration and login ...

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