Question

I have some data stored in a JavaScript array which I want to send to some other page. Is it possible to do this without utilizing any server-side scripting like PHP? Can it be done with JS or jQuery or something like that? Ideally, I want to be able to access that array in my JS script on the other page.

Thank you

Answer 1

You can serialize your Array/Objects into a String using

JSON.stringify

so if you have an Array like

var arr = [1,2,3,4]
JSON.stringify(arr) // "[1,2,3,4]"

And then pass it using an GET parameter to your other page

In which you could acces it using something like this

function get(q,s) { 
        s |= window.location.search; 
        var re = new RegExp('&'+q+'(?:=([^&]*))?(?=&|$)','i'); 
        return (s=s.replace(/^\?/,'&').match(re)) ? (typeof s[1] == 'undefined' ? '' :     decodeURIComponent(s[1])) : undefined; 
    }

If you’r url were www.example.com/?arr="[1,2,3]"

get("arr")

Would return

"[1,2,3]"

of course you could also store this String in a Cookie or in the localStorage
Object (which is only supported by modern browsers)

Then you can use

JSON.parse

var arr = JSON.parse("[1,2,3,4]");
arr // [1, 2, 3, 4]