Cookies can be used to remember things about a user when they come back to your site. Cookies expire after a certain amount of time which you can set. Also, the clients browser must have cookies enabled for them to work. Here is a very simple example of creating a cookie and setting the cookie to expire in one year using ASP
This quick and simple tutorial gives you an quick idea on how cookies are set & read by your scripts. Cookies are a quick and easy way to add any form of interaction to your site this tutorial gives you a quick 101 on how to use them in your scripts. A tutorial worth a read for both beginners and advanced.
Tutorial explaining how to read and write cookies and why they can come in handy. The tutorial also gives examples of how cookies can be used to personalize webpages.
This tutorial shows how to keep information from the user in your server (Session method) and how to share information between users (Application method). This is only a basic tutorial for beginners with only basic features are described.
Cookies enable you to write text directly to a users computer. This can be used to easily recognize if a user has been to your site before or used to prevent multiple entries in to forms. This example will take any input you type in and write it to a cookie. A hyperlink to the same page is created to demonstrate on subsequent visits (within 3 days) the user will see their input rather then the text input box.