User Authentication

[gple]

I am building a user forum for the very first time and I am just trying to get a feel on what is the best way to handle it. After user logs in, what is the best way to go from page to page? do you store a cookie and validate against that or is there some other way to handle this?

[TeddyKiller]

Not a cookie, but a session. You would validate it against that.

[dotMoe]

Not a cookie, but a session. You would validate it against that.

 

... and you can store a session in a file or in the database.