Cookies
A cookie is often used to identify a user. A cookie is a small file that the server embeds on the user's computer.Each time the same computer requests a page with a browser, it will send the cookie too.
Set Cookies
A cookie is created with the setcookie() function.
setcookie(name, value, expire, path, domain, secure, httponly);
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