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Object Cookie

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Edit

Setting object as a cookie using javascript.

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/*Sample function to set JSON Object as cookie*/
function setJSONCookie(){
	cookie = {}
	cookie.firstname = "John";
	cookie.lastname = "Doe";

		createCookie('jsoncookie',JSON.stringify(cookie),1);
		alert("Cookie set");
}

/*Sample function to retrieve and reconstruct Object cookie*/
function getJSONCookie(){
	cookie = JSON.parse(readCookie('jsoncookie'));
	alert(JSON.stringify(cookie));
}

function createCookie(name, value, days) {
	if (days) {
		var date = new Date();
		date.setTime(date.getTime() + (days * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000));
		var expires = "; expires=" + date.toGMTString();
	} else var expires = "";
	document.cookie = escape(name) + "=" + escape(value) + expires + "; path=/";
}

function readCookie(name) {
	var nameEQ = escape(name) + "=";
	var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
	for (var i = 0; i < ca.length; i++) {
		var c = ca[i];
		while (c.charAt(0) == ' ') c = c.substring(1, c.length);
		if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return unescape(c.substring(nameEQ.length, c.length));
	}
	return null;
}

function eraseCookie(name) {
	createCookie(name, "", -1);
}

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