In this article I would like to share with you about a cookie in PHP basically a cookie is a method we use in PHP to identify the user that visited or uses our website. It is a small file the is being send by our server to our user's computer. Every the the user computer send a request to our page with the use of a web browser, it will send a cookie also to the user via a web browser. The code is very simple and easy to understand.
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Sample Program Output
Program Listing
<?php
$cookie_name = "visitors";
$cookie_value = "Jake Pomperada";
?>
<html>
<title> Demonstration of Cookies PHP</title>
<style>
body {
font-size:20px;
font-family:arial;
color:blue;
}
</style>
<body>
<body style='background-color:lightgreen'>
<div style='width:800px;margin:auto'>
<br> <h1 align="center">Demonstration of Cookies in PHP</h2>
<?php
if(isset($_COOKIE[$cookie_name])) {
$last = $_COOKIE[$cookie_name];
echo "Welcome back, " . $cookie_value . "! <br>
<br> You last visited this site is ". $last. ".";
} else {
echo "Welcome to our website , ". $cookie_value. "!";
}
?>
</body>
</div>
</html>
