Learn how to build user-aware PHP scripts that can remember your user's personal settings on your website. Also a good introduction to cookies.

Explains how to set and check for cookies using PHP. Also demonstrates a simple way to read and write data to a file.

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.

A tutorial on the basics of sessions in PHP.

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.