{"id":129045,"date":"2023-05-09T13:37:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T08:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/?page_id=129045"},"modified":"2024-04-12T14:33:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T09:03:42","slug":"sessions-functions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/sessions-functions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sessions Functions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Sessions Functions<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>In PHP, sessions are a way to store and retrieve data across multiple requests made by the same user. Sessions are maintained by a unique identifier called a session ID, which is stored in a cookie on the user&#8217;s browser or passed as a parameter in the URL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Functions are used to manipulate session data. 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