multi dimensional cookies

[PC Nerd]

firstly, can i create a cookie, drectly from a hmtl form?

 

 

is it possible to have a multi domensional cookie, ie:

 

cookie = documdnt.cookie

 

cookie[index1][index2] etc.

 

 

can i do this?

 

if not, how would i have something like that?, can i make POST datab or GET data like this?

 

 

thanks

[taith]

a) thats javascript... not php...

b) no, cookie cannot hold arrays...

[DaveEverFade]

Cookies can hold arrays, i've done it before (by accident). Although I don't know how to do that in javascript!

[taith]

no... cookies cannot hold arrays... now if one were to serialize/implode the array, sure it'd work... but its not an array then... its a string.

[DaveEverFade]

Sorry, just tested, you are right... I must have been thinking about somthing else..

[PC Nerd]

so how would i do this.....

 

i have 10 forms, and i need each form to become an array ( its fields the arrays elements...)

 

i dont really mind if its POST data, or simply a cookie, and can i do this directly from the form eg method = '' action = '' etc/.

 

 

thanks?

[jitesh]

From HTML you can use javascript to create a cookie.

 

In case of array it is possible

[PC Nerd]

can i create a multi dimensional array cookie, or POST, or GET?  direct from the form?

 

 

how would i go about deoing this cookie?

[ToonMariner]

cookies can BE arrays.....

 

http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/function.setcookie.php#id5573620

 

no... cookies cannot hold arrays... now if one were to serialize/implode the array, sure it'd work... but its not an array then... its a string.

serializing an array produces a string - unserializing a string that was formed from an array will produce an array...

[taith]

i didnt say cookies couldnt be arrays... i said they couldnt hold arrays...

 

$array=array("asfd","1");
setcookie("array",$array);

only  gives errors...

 

now... for javascript... you can turn arrays into strings like so...

function implode(array,seperator){ 
return array.join(seperator);
}

 

personally... i havent found a way of exploding yet...

[ToonMariner]

thats why I said they can BE arrays...

 

array.split() is the js equivalent of explode.

 

My personal opinion is not use javascript for setting cookies - let the server do it - you don't need to worry if js is activated or not then.

[PC Nerd]

ok, so i cant do my idea, having the cookie holding arrays.....

 

 

can POST or GET hold arrays, eg:

 

$_POST[index1][index2]

 

?

 

 

thanks

[ToonMariner]

you can like this.

 

if you know its a 2-d array...

 

<?php
foreach($_POST[index1] as $outerkey => $arr)
{
foreach($arr as $innnerkey => $val)
{
  setcookie('cookie[' . $outerkey . '][' . $innerkey . ']', $val);
}
}
?>

[PC Nerd]

but i need to create the multidimensional thing, whether its cookie, POST or whatever....

 

 

how do i do it?

[ToonMariner]

I just have!!!!!!!!

 

that code creates a multi dimensional cookie

 

after that you can call the elements of the cookie as normal

[PC Nerd]

i understand this is the wrong section, but how would i do that in javascript?

 

i want it to all be done on the one page.

[taith]

forgive me, javascript is not my first language... some of this probably will be wrong... lol

 

and just to make things php consistant...

<s cript>
function implode(seperator,array){
return array.join(seperator);
}
function explode(seperator,array){
return array.split(seperator);
}

var string=implode('|',array);
</s cript>

then you just need to set the string, to the cookie ... i included the explode there too if you want to go backwards :-)