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Answer by Muhammad Bilal for Cookies vs. sessions in PHP
See the illustration to compare differences b/w Cookies and Session.
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TL;DRCriteria / factorsSessionsCookiesEpoch (start of existence)Created BEFORE an HTTP responseCreated AFTER an HTTP responseAvailability during the first HTTP requestYESNOAvailability during the...
View ArticleAnswer by Jay-R Joseph Gabunada for Cookies vs. sessions in PHP
Cookies and Sessions are used to store information. Cookies are only stored on the client-side machine, while sessions get stored on the client as well as a server.SessionA session creates a file in a...
View ArticleAnswer by Fifi for Cookies vs. sessions in PHP
Short answerRules ordered by priority:Rule 1. Never trust user input : cookies are not safe. Use sessions for sensitive data.Rule 2. If persistent data must remain when the user closes the browser, use...
View ArticleAnswer by Megersa for Cookies vs. sessions in PHP
A session is a group of information on the server that is associated with the cookie information. If you're using PHP you can check the session. save _ path location and actually "see sessions".A...
View ArticleAnswer by Muhammad Sanaullah for Cookies vs. sessions in PHP
I personally use both cookies and session.Cookies only used when user click on "remember me" checkbox. and also cookies are encrypted and data only decrypt on the server. If anyone tries to edit...
View ArticleAnswer by Wasiq Mahmood WM for Cookies vs. sessions in PHP
I will select Session, first of all session is more secure then cookies, cookies is client site data and session is server site data.Cookies is used to identify a user, because it is small pieces of...
View ArticleAnswer by Kamalakannan J for Cookies vs. sessions in PHP
As others said, Sessions are clever and has more advantage of hiding the information from the client.But Cookie still has at least one advantage, you can access your Cookies from Javascript(For example...
View ArticleAnswer by user3824494 for Cookies vs. sessions in PHP
Session and Cookie are not a same.A session is used to store the information from the web pages. Normally web pages don’t have any memories to store these information. But using we can save the...
View ArticleAnswer by user379888 for Cookies vs. sessions in PHP
Sessions allow you to store away individual pieces of information just like with cookies, but the data gets stored on the server instead of the client.
View ArticleAnswer by Makan for Cookies vs. sessions in PHP
when you save the #ID as the cookie to recognize logged in users, you actually are showing data to users that is not related to them. In addition, if a third party tries to set random IDs as cookie...
View ArticleAnswer by Zalaboza for Cookies vs. sessions in PHP
SESSIONS ENDS WHEN USER CLOSES THEIR BROWSER,COOKIES END DEPENDING ON THE LIFETIME YOU SET FOR IT. SO THEY CAN LAST FOR YEARSThis is the major difference in your choice,If you want the id to be...
View ArticleAnswer by user743234 for Cookies vs. sessions in PHP
Basic ideas to distinguish between those two.Session:UID is stored on server (i.e. server-side)Safer (because of 1)Expiration can not be set, session variables will be expired when users close the...
View ArticleAnswer by DOK for Cookies vs. sessions in PHP
Actually, session and cookies are not always separate things. Often, but not always, session uses cookies.There are some good answers to your question in these other questions here. Since your question...
View ArticleAnswer by Fosco for Cookies vs. sessions in PHP
The concept is storing persistent data across page loads for a web visitor. Cookies store it directly on the client. Sessions use a cookie as a key of sorts, to associate with the data that is stored...
View ArticleCookies vs. sessions in PHP
I started using PHP a couple of months ago. For the sake of creating a login system for my website, I read about cookies and sessions and their differences (cookies are stored in the user's browser and...
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