With this tutorial you will learn how to create a user login script in PHP. It will also check the "user" session variable is empty and if the "loggedIn" session variable does not equal true. If any of those are a true statement, it will stop everything by using the "die" function and tell them that the verification failed. It uses about 2 files and pretty easy to understand and grasp the basics.
Read this to brief tutorial to learn how to preserve language status beyond your web pages using PHP sessions and GET - POST variables. Also you can apply this tip to achive other goals switching the session variables.
What is a Cookie and what's the use of Cookies? This tutorial answers just that. After this tutorial, you can create and use your own Cookies for your Website.
Setting and playing around with cookies is a fun and useful way to save data on a user's hard drive, and can successfully store valuable information which may be helpful the next time they come to the site. Its fairly simple to set up, and even easier to read.
For those new to web development and 'how things work', cookies can be a very confusing matter. In this tutorial, Timothy gives you an overview of cookies to help you understand how they work.
To begin this tutorial in PHP sessions, you must first make sure that your web server (ie. apache) has the options to allow session with the configuration. Note: people using apache and php under a win32 enviorment must manually configure this option.To start, this tutorial, you should have some basic knowledge of php coding. Refer to Hotscripts for some basic and more advanced php coding tricks.
Ready to spice up your website? This introduction to Sessions will definately get you going in the right direction. Learn an outstanding and more reliable method utilizing information than Cookies! PHP Sessions is the answer.