I know how to handle user authentification through either session variable or cookies, but I was wondering if both could be used simultaneously.

What I want to achieve is a normal session login, but give users the checkbox option to remember the login info for the next time they come to the site. How would I go about achieving this?

I do this all the time.

What you need to do is have PHP check if the checkbox is checked, and if it is, set a cookie to the username that the user logged in with. Then, on every page of yours, add a bit of PHP that checks for the remember cookie, and if it is set, set the session to logged in.

HTH,

Snib

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Sessions already create cookies. Seems to me the best way to do that is to tweak your session settings to allow sessions to perpetuate between user visits via the session cookie. Have a look at php.ini, there are several settings that allow this.

Regards,
Rich

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