HTTP协议是一种无状态协议，这意味着你对网站的每一个请求都是独立的，而且因此无法通过它自身保存数据。但这种简单性也是它在互联网早期就广泛传播的原因之一。

不过，它仍然有一种方法能让你用cookies的形式来保存请求之间的信息。这种方法使你能够更有效率的进行会话管理和维持数据。

有两种处理cookies的方式—服务端(php,asp等)和客户端(javascript).在这个教程中，我们将学习到以php和javascript这两种方式如何去创建cookies。

Cookies and php

setting cookies
在php中创建cookie你需要用到setcookie这个方法。它需要些参数(除了第一个参数是必需的，其它参数都是可选的)

复制代码代码如下:

setcookie(
    'pageVisits', //cookie名字，必需的
     $visited,     //cookie的值
     time()+7*24*60*60, //过期时间,设置为一个星期
     '/',               //cookie可用的文件路径
     'demo.tutorialzine.com' //cookie绑定的域名
)

如果过期时间设置为0(默认设置也是0)，那么当浏览器重启时cookie将会丢失。
参数'/'表示你域名下所有文件路径cookie都可以用(当然你也可以为它设置单一的文件路径,例：'/admin/')。

你还可以传给个这个函数别两个额外的参数，这里没有给出。它们被规定为boolean类型的。
第一个参数表示cookie仅在一个安全的HTTPS连接才运转,而第二个参数表示不能使用javascript操作cookie。

对大多数人来说，你只需要第四个参数，剩下的就忽略了。

reading cookies
用php读取cookie就简单多了。所有的传给脚本的cookies都在$_COOKIE这个超级全局数组里。
在我们的例子里，可以用下面的代码来读取cookies:

复制代码代码如下:

$visits = (int)$_COOKIE['pageVisits']+1;
echo "You visited this site: ".$visits." times";

值得注意的地方是,当下一个页面加载好时，也可以用$_COOKIE来取得你用setcookie方法设置的cookies,
你应该意识到了什么。

deleting cookies
为了删除cookies，仅仅需要用setcookie函数为cookies设置一个已经过去时间做为过期就行了。

复制代码代码如下:

setcookie(
     'pageVisits',
      $visited,
      time()-7*24*60*60,  //设置为前一个星期，cookie将会被删除
      '/',
      'demo.tutorialzine.com'
)

Cookies and jQuery
在jquery中使用cookies，你需要一个插件Cookie plugin.

Setting cookies
用Cookie plug-in设置cookies是很直观的:

复制代码代码如下:

$(document).ready(function(){  

     // Setting a kittens cookie, it will be lost on browser restart:  
     $.cookie("kittens","Seven Kittens");  

     // Setting demoCookie (as seen in the demonstration):  
     $.cookie("demoCookie",text,{expires: 7, path: '/', domain: 'demo.tutorialzine.com'});  

     // "text" is a variable holding the string to be saved  
 }); 

Reading cookies
读取cookie甚至更简单，只需要调用$.cookie()方法，给它一个cookie-name就可以了,这个方法会返回cookie的值:

复制代码代码如下:

 $(document).ready(function(){  

     // Getting the kittens cookie:  
     var str = $.cookie("kittens");  

     // str now contains "Seven Kittens"  
 }); 

Deleting cookies
删除cookie，只需要在次使得$.cookie()方法,把第二个参数设置为null就可以了。

复制代码代码如下:

 $(document).ready(function(){  

     // Deleting the kittens cookie:  
     var str = $.cookie("kittens",null);  

     // No more kittens  
 }); 

完整例子：
demo.php

复制代码代码如下:

// Always set cookies before any data or HTML are printed to the page
$visited = (int)$_COOKIE['pageVisits'] + 1;
setcookie( 'pageVisits',    // Name of the cookie, required
    $visited,     // The value of the cookie
   time()+7*24*60*60,   // Expiration time, set for a week in the future
   '/',      // Folder path, the cookie will be available for all scripts in every folder of the site
   'demo.tutorialzine.com'); // Domain to which the cookie will be locked
?>

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jquery.cookie.js

复制代码代码如下:

/**
 * Cookie plugin
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2006 Klaus Hartl (stilbuero.de)
 * Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses:
 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
 * http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
 *
 */
/**
 * Create a cookie with the given name and value and other optional parameters.
 *
 * @example $.cookie('the_cookie', 'the_value');
 * @desc Set the value of a cookie.
 * @example $.cookie('the_cookie', 'the_value', { expires: 7, path: '/', domain: 'jquery.com', secure: true });
 * @desc Create a cookie with all available options.
 * @example $.cookie('the_cookie', 'the_value');
 * @desc Create a session cookie.
 * @example $.cookie('the_cookie', null);
 * @desc Delete a cookie by passing null as value. Keep in mind that you have to use the same path and domain
 *       used when the cookie was set.
 *
 * @param String name The name of the cookie.
 * @param String value The value of the cookie.
 * @param Object options An object literal containing key/value pairs to provide optional cookie attributes.
 * @option Number|Date expires Either an integer specifying the expiration date from now on in days or a Date object.
 *                             If a negative value is specified (e.g. a date in the past), the cookie will be deleted.
 *                             If set to null or omitted, the cookie will be a session cookie and will not be retained
 *                             when the the browser exits.
 * @option String path The value of the path atribute of the cookie (default: path of page that created the cookie).
 * @option String domain The value of the domain attribute of the cookie (default: domain of page that created the cookie).
 * @option Boolean secure If true, the secure attribute of the cookie will be set and the cookie transmission will
 *                        require a secure protocol (like HTTPS).
 * @type undefined
 *
 * @name $.cookie
 * @cat Plugins/Cookie
 * @author Klaus Hartl/klaus.hartl@stilbuero.de
 */
/**
 * Get the value of a cookie with the given name.
 *
 * @example $.cookie('the_cookie');
 * @desc Get the value of a cookie.
 *
 * @param String name The name of the cookie.
 * @return The value of the cookie.
 * @type String
 *
 * @name $.cookie
 * @cat Plugins/Cookie
 * @author Klaus Hartl/klaus.hartl@stilbuero.de
 */
jQuery.cookie = function(name, value, options) {
    if (typeof value != 'undefined') { // name and value given, set cookie
        options = options || {};
        if (value === null) {
            value = '';
            options.expires = -1;
        }
        var expires = '';
        if (options.expires && (typeof options.expires == 'number' || options.expires.toUTCString)) {
            var date;
            if (typeof options.expires == 'number') {
                date = new Date();
                date.setTime(date.getTime() + (options.expires * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000));
            } else {
                date = options.expires;
            }
            expires = '; expires=' + date.toUTCString(); // use expires attribute, max-age is not supported by IE
        }
        // CAUTION: Needed to parenthesize options.path and options.domain
        // in the following expressions, otherwise they evaluate to undefined
        // in the packed version for some reason...
        var path = options.path ? '; path=' + (options.path) : '';
        var domain = options.domain ? '; domain=' + (options.domain) : '';
        var secure = options.secure ? '; secure' : '';
        document.cookie = [name, '=', encodeURIComponent(value), expires, path, domain, secure].join('');
    } else { // only name given, get cookie
        var cookieValue = null;
        if (document.cookie && document.cookie != '') {
            var cookies = document.cookie.split(';');
            for (var i = 0; i                 var cookie = jQuery.trim(cookies[i]);
                // Does this cookie string begin with the name we want?
                if (cookie.substring(0, name.length + 1) == (name + '=')) {
                    cookieValue = decodeURIComponent(cookie.substring(name.length + 1));
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
        return cookieValue;
    }
};

styles.css

复制代码代码如下:

*{
 margin:0;
 padding:0;
}
body{
 /* Setting default text color, background and a font stack */
 color:#555555;
 font-size:0.825em;
 background: #fcfcfc;
 font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
.section{
 margin:0 auto 60px;
 text-align:center;
 width:600px;
}
.counter{
 color:#79CEF1;
 font-size:180px;
}
.jq-text{
 display:none;
 color:#79CEF1;
 font-size:80px;
}
p{
 font-size:11px;
 padding:0 200px;
}
form{
 margin-bottom:15px;
}
input[type=text]{
 border:1px solid #BBBBBB;
 color:#444444;
 font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;
 font-size:14px;
 letter-spacing:1px;
 padding:2px 4px;
}
/* The styles below are only necessary for the styling of the demo page: */
h1{
 background:#F4F4F4;
 border-bottom:1px solid #EEEEEE;
 font-size:20px;
 font-weight:normal;
 margin-bottom:15px;
 padding:15px;
 text-align:center;
}
h2 {
 font-size:12px;
 font-weight:normal;
 padding-right:40px;
 position:relative;
 right:0;
 text-align:right;
 text-transform:uppercase;
 top:-48px;
}
a, a:visited {
 color:#0196e3;
 text-decoration:none;
 outline:none;
}
a:hover{
 text-decoration:underline;
}
.clear{
 clear:both;
}
h1,h2,p.tutInfo{
 font-family:"Myriad Pro",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
}