Learn how to use cookies to allow user downloading a file only once. Limit people from accessing things more than once. Simple comments and explanations.

A tutorial on the basics of sessions in PHP.

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.

Learn about the usefullness of cookies, what they can be used for, and also learn how to create a simple unique computer counter using cookies.

Cookies enabled web developers to produce more usable sites, by allowing temporary storage of commonly used information by the user. This can be beneficial in shopping carts, user logon systems and general site usage. Read on to find out how to use cookies and how to implement a simple user logon system.

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.

This tutorial will teach an alternative and effective solution to cookies in PHP which might actually be better for your website and security.

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.

Learn how to log users out of a system after x amount of minutes of inactivity. This is a great security add-on!

Usage of sessions is sortly explained by using two examples: a hit counter and a simple password protection script.