I’m looking for a tutorial that will show me how to save a temp internet file on the users computer that the web page will store information and then be called when the user returns so they can finish what they started
@kprocauthorSep 26.2009 — #the problems with cookies is I don't think the Ican get it to store enough information. I'm wanting to create an application that stores a lage amount of information on the users computer then when they comeback to the site they can finish filling in the form.
@nathandelaneSep 26.2009 — #kproc, the only way that you can store information on the user's side is by cookies. If you want to keep track of state for a website (and by the way the Internet does not keep track of state very well, it was designed to be stateless), then you should be using PHP or another server-side language and a database.
@rnd_meSep 27.2009 — #kproc, the only way that you can store information on the user's side is by cookies. If you want to keep track of state for a website (and by the way the Internet does not keep track of state very well, it was designed to be stateless), then you should be using PHP or another server-side language and a database.[/QUOTE]
my mini library (http://danml.com/mini ) has a unified persistence function [CODE]store(key, val)[/CODE] that will automatically pick the best available method in all supported browsers, falling back to cookies if nothing better is available.
use: if val is passed then sets the data, else returns key's data
[CODE] <html> <script src="http://danml.com/mini"> var name=store("name"); if(name){ alert("Welcom back "+name); }else{ store("name", prompt( "what is your name?", "fred" ));