Chapter 9Saving Data on the Client
Remember when cookies were awesome? Neither do I. Cookies have been rather painful to deal with since they came on the scene, but we put up with the hassle because they’ve been the only reliable way to store information on the clients’ machines.
To use cookies, we have to name them and set their expiration. This involves a bunch of JavaScript code we wrap in a function so we never have to think about how it actually works, kind of like this:
| html5_localstorage/setcookie.js | |
| | // via http://www.javascripter.net/faq/settinga.htm |
| | function SetCookie(cookieName,cookieValue,nDays) { |
| | var today = new Date(); |
| | var expire = new Date(); |
| | if (nDays==null || nDays==0) nDays=1; |
| | expire.setTime(today.getTime() ... |
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