I'm working on learning PHP/MySQL and I'm wondering if I should bother with cookies. I remember a long time ago there was alot of wailing and gnashing of teeth about how terrible cookies are; but you don't hear (at least I don't) alot about it these days.
My point is: Are cookies something anyone here uses, and are they something that could be useful in my webdev toolbox?
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Cookies, when used appropriately, are very useful, yes.
Originally Posted by Chris
but wut is exactly this "cookies" are?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search
Well I feel the cookies are unnecessary unless u really need to store some info on the comp........
I personally stay away from cookies.......sessions so far are doing just great
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but sessions can have a higher overhead if used improperly.
Cookies have their place like keeping us logged into this forum or remembering our Google News preferences. I think, however, cookies are over used and abused and in general I don't like them, but I've also resigned to the fact that we can't escape them. The only time I use them personally is to maintain user log ins, however, all of my third party advertisers also push cookies with their ads.
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A lot of ad cookies are beneficial to the user, such as making sure you see only 1 popunder per session, or making sure you don't see the same ad more than once. Not really a bad thing.
True, but I don't use annoying things like popups/popunders.
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Cookies are disliked by the general public due to Internet magazines or articles in standard magazines telling them they were a security risk in the 90s. I don't think the average Internet user realises they are just text files.
From what I've seen of the dozens of computers I've repaird over the past year, the average user doesn't do anything to block them, either.
Yes, you should learn how to use cookies, as they have many important applications like user tracking, conversions, login systems, etc.
In retrospect, it was a bit of a stupid question. At the time my only knowledge of cookies was really old paranoid rhetoric about how bad they were. But since I've been studying I've figured out that few if any people/organizations block them. Even the draconian computer security measures at my place of work don't address cookies.
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