Cookies for autologin

[idire]

I currently use sessions extensively throughout my website, but have had users complain about the lack of remembering login from a computer.

 

I have looked up cookies, but don't really understand what I need to do to store/retrieve, and what to create?

[Alkimuz]

you can set one by using the code:

 

setcookie("name you wat to give to cookie", "the information you want to store in the cookie", the time you want the cookie to exist in seconds);

 

so for example:

 

$name = 'idire';

setcookie("UsersName", $name, time()+3600);

 

you can read the cookie by using the code:

 

$_COOKIE['Name of the cookie'];

 

so for example

 

echo 'hello '.$_COOKIE['UserName'];

 

will show:

 

hello idire

 

good luck