Cookie vs session

 

SESSIONS ENDS WHEN USER CLOSES THEIR BROWSER,

COOKIES END DEPENDING ON THE LIFETIME YOU SET FOR IT. SO THEY CAN LAST FOR YEARS

This is the major difference in your choice,

If you want the id to be remembered for long time, then you need to use cookies; otherwise if you just want the website to recognize the user for this visit only then sessions is the way to go.

Sessions are stored in a file your php server will generate. To remember which file is for which user, php will also set a cookie on the user's browser that holds this session file id so in their next visit php will read this file and reload the session.

Now php by default clears sessions every interval, and also naming convention of session make it auto expire. Also, browsers will not keep the cookie that holds the session id once the browser is closed or the history is cleared.

It's important to note that nowadays browse

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6253633/cookies-vs-sessions