Re: Why cookie is created?
| From: | Jerry Swanson | Date: | Mon, 08 Nov 2004 22:31:33 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Why cookie is created? | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.general |
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I don't want to use cookies.
I want to use session. When I use this code. It stores data on the harddrive.
session_start();
$referral = $_SESSION['referral'];
if(empty($referral)) {
$referral = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
$_SESSION['referral'] = $referral;
}
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 16:19:49 -0600, Greg Donald <destiney@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 15:56:03 -0500, Jerry Swanson <pmysql@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't use cookie for my page. I use session. As I understand cookies
> > don't create any files on user computer.
>
> Your understanding is incorrect. Using cookies does indeed place
> files on the user's computer. That's what a cookie is, a file on the
> user's computer, created by the web client.
>
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> Greg Donald
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