The Cookie Jar is by my colleague and friend, Robin Baker. Robin is an extremely intelligent guy who excels in most of his computer endeavors. He's one of our valuable guys who works in the background building these wonderful pages. This is his time to shine. If you do like the article, please feel free to write him .
Cookies are tiny files that a website leaves on the user's computer when somebody visits.
These files do nothing but store pieces of information about the user and usually contain preferences set by the visitor. Using a cookie you can store this preference on the user's machine, making your website more friendly. Setting a cookie with PHP is simple. Save this files as cookie.php, upload to your server, and then view it with a browser. If all went well, the cookie should now be on your computer and the pages should say, 'Cookie is set'.