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PHP for the Web: Learn PHP without a Framework

Purpose of Using Cookies

Explore how cookies enable user identification and state management in PHP despite HTTP being stateless. Understand how to set cookies to personalize user experiences by tracking data such as a user's name across multiple requests.

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Identifying users

HTTP is what they call a stateless protocol. The server processes a request, and when the response has been delivered, the server forgets all about that request and starts processing the next request. There is no link between these requests, not even a way to know if a request comes from the same person as the previous ...