https://www.question2answer.org/qa/tag/identify-user Powered by Question2Answer https://www.question2answer.org/qa/42245/why-do-store-random-bigint-for-cookie-instead-the-sessionid see function qa_db_cookie_create($ipaddress) and function qa_db_random_bigint()<br /> <br /> I wonder why we do not directly store the session id as an identifier?<br /> <br /> From my information, a cookie is created on each session by PHP automatically.<br /> <br /> I think the sessionid would make more sense to identify events by anonymous users. Q2A Core https://www.question2answer.org/qa/42245/why-do-store-random-bigint-for-cookie-instead-the-sessionid Mon, 15 Dec 2014 06:47:00 +0000