So the user comes to the site and they're presented with a log in page.
They enter their username and password and php checks a mysql database for
a matching username and password.
In the case of a match, php then sets a cookie on their browser with a
value of 1 for authenticated and 0 for not authenticated. Every subsequent
page the user views checks the status of this cookie and if it's a zero it
kicks them back to the log in page. This cookie expires in 5 days and
after that they'll have to log in again.
I'm aware that this is terribly easy to circumvent by creating/modifying a
cookie with the 1 value and the site thinks you've passed muster.
What is a better way of doing this?

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