What Is Difference Between Session And Cookies

In PHP, visitor information designated to be used across the site can be stored in a session or a cookie. The main difference between cookies and sessions is that information stored in a cookie is stored on the visitor’s browser, and information stored in a session is not—it is stored at the web server.

Cookies

Cookies are stored in browser as a text file format. It is stored limit amount of data.It is only allowing 4kb[4096bytes]. It is not holding the multiple variable in cookies.

Ecample:

<?php

setcookie(name, value, expire,
path,domain, secure, httponly);

$cookie_uame = "user";

$cookie_uvalue= "Hitesh Kumar";

//set cookies for 1 hour time
setcookie($cookie_uname,
$cookie_uvalue, 3600, "/");

//expire cookies
setcookie($cookie_uname,"",-3600);

?>

Sessions

Sessions are stored in server side. It is stored unlimited amount of data.It is holding the multiple variable in sessions. we cannot accessing the cookies values in easily.So it is more secure.

Example:

<?php

session_start();

//session variable
$_SESSION['user'] = 'Hitesh';

//destroyed the entire sessions

session_destroy();

//Destroyed the session
variable "user".
unset($_SESSION['user']);
?>

Thanks:)