I know as a PHP beginner<\/strong>, Session and Cookies are one of the confusing topics. Because both stores user data. But the differences in both of them are session stored user data in server while cookies<\/a> store user data in the user browser. Session data is only available for the current session while cookie can be stored for a longer period of time.<\/p>\n

In this tutorial I am not going to cover cookies but I will cover PHP Session using login and logout example. Let’s have a look on what session do.<\/p>\n

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• Session makes user data available across the whole website.<\/li>\n
• Session makes a temporary file in a server temporary directory which saves session data. Temporary file path is saved in php.ini file.<\/li>\n
• Sessions atomically destroys when user close the browser.<\/li>\n
• Session will start by calling session_start()<\/code> function.<\/li>\n
• Session will destroy by calling session_destroy()<\/code> function.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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