Cookies

[David Harrison]

I've never used cookies before so I was wondering how would I go about storing an array of data in a cookie?

[Khalid Ali]

I don't think you can store objects in a cookie,however you can use string vlues in a cookie and then retrieve them and create an array of those values...

[David Harrison]

Isn't an array just a lot of strings all with similar names?

If so, couldn't it be done with a for loop?

[Khalid Ali]

Array is like that but JavaScript engine knows that...I have never tried to put array in cookie in a hope that it will automatically figure it out..you can always try..:D

[David Harrison]

Well, could you show me how to put anything into a cookie, because like I said, I've never used cookies before.

[Khalid Ali]

Here you go,its prety simple script that uses cookies

http://68.145.35.86/skills/javascripts/SimpleLoginCookieScript.html

[David Harrison]

Thanks for the example.

Now my next question is do cookies get deleted once the browser window is closed, or is that only if an expiration date isn't specified.

[Khalid Ali]

yes you do need to set a cookie expiration date....

[David Harrison]

OK, thanks for all the help, I'll go away and work on it now.