store the cookie with three parts.
function onLogin($user) { $token = GenerateRandomToken(); // generate a token, should be 128 - 256 bit storeTokenForUser($user, $token); $cookie = $user . ':' . $token; $mac = hash_hmac('sha256', $cookie, SECRET_KEY); $cookie .= ':' . $mac; setcookie('rememberme', $cookie); }
Then, to validate:
function rememberMe() { $cookie = isset($_COOKIE['rememberme']) ? $_COOKIE['rememberme'] : ''; if ($cookie) { list ($user, $token, $mac) = explode(':', $cookie); if (!hash_equals(hash_hmac('sha256', $user . ':' . $token, SECRET_KEY), $mac)) { return false; } $usertoken = fetchTokenByUserName($user); if (hash_equals($usertoken, $token)) { logUserIn($user); } } }
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