How does a members area work?

PHP
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I’ve never been asked to build one amazingly. Is there any software to facilitate the process, or would you recommend having it custom coded? I’m using WordPress if that helps . . .

Thanks for any insight.

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WordPress is made from PHP. You can make sessions or cookies in PHP. When you “log in” to a site you are checking against something if the information is true, then set session variables. Then on subsequent pages you check to make sure those variables are still set.

I am requesting the thread to be moved to PHP. If you do a search of the forum you can find examples.