Cookies and Browser Interaction
How to set secure cookies and httponly cookies. Both JavaScript and PHP examples.
Affiliate Code Removed From Browser URL
How to remove the affiliate code from the URL in the browser's address bar.
Cookie Control for Site Developers
If you install web pages or software and test their cookie to verify they work correctly, the software presented here is for you
Protecting subdirectories with a cookie can be an especially good method when access needs to be allowed from various internet connections.
Effectively Requiring Cookies With All Browsers
If you have any web pages that must not be viewed unless a certain cookie is set, this article contains the means to make it so.
The cookie monster in your browser has a cupboard of cookies. The cupboard has lots of compartments, one compartment for every website that has given the cookie monster a cookie.
How to Set a Secure Affiliate Cookie
When you have an affiliate program, browsers sent to your website by your affiliates will need to be be associated with the affiliate, which generally involves setting a cookie. The cookie contains the affiliate's identification.
It's a Cookie! Get Outta Here!
When a page has performed it's purpose, a cookie can be set to redirect the browser to a different page on subsequent visits.
When a purchase is made via PayPal, the buyer is generally returned to a download or other purchase confirmation page. Should the URL of that page be obtained by the unscrupulous, product may be lost to theft.
If you tend to encounter "headers already sent" PHP warnings when doing redirects, this article is for you.
Redirect With Hidden Custom Data
Redirect browser and send custom hidden data to the destination page.
Removing URL Parameters From Browser Address Bars
A URL parameter is information appended to a URL. The beginning of parameter information are marked by a "?" character,
Setting and Reading Cookies with JavaScript
The intent of this article is to make setting and reading cookies with JavaScript an easy thing for you to do.
Setting and Viewing Cookies with PHP
Here is a fun way to learn about cookies by setting them and then viewing them.
Setting Cookies at Other Domains
Third-party cookies are unreliable anymore.
I'll show you how to test if a browser accepts cookies. The code can be a solution if your site uses cookies to provide a better user experience. Or needs cookies for some site features to work correctly.
This article is for the baffled, the bewildered, the perplexed. It clarifies the concept of cookies, never again to be confusing.
Sometimes setcookie() doesn't work. Here is a work-around.
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