Question

I wanted to know if there is a way to stop Javascript from calling a php every page and populating an array, and instead just carry the array accross all the pages the user browsers.

Currently every page load it makes a new reqest to the server and repopulates the array for example when a user clicks link on a html page.

This is what i have in my JS file:

//Browser Support Code
function call_data(url,data){
  if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {              
    AJAX=new XMLHttpRequest();              
  } else {                                  
    AJAX=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
  }
  if (AJAX) {
  querystring = "?dta="+data;
     AJAX.open("GET", url + querystring, false);                             
     AJAX.send(null);
     return AJAX.responseText;                                         
  } else {
     return false;
  }                                             
}       


var statistics = JSON.parse(call_data('user_info.php',userid));//user data

I don’t currently see an advantage if its calling every page load, as I might as well do without … unless theres a way to keep my array set each page load?

Answer 1

You should use HTML5 Local Storage.