Question

I was wondering if it was possible to create a cookie (using jquery.cookie) which looks like this in php:

$_COOKIE['124']['ctns'] => 12
$_COOKIE['124']['units'] => 2

OR

$_COOKIE['124'] => array( 'ctns' => 12, 'units' => 2 )

Currently I’ve created the cookie which looks like:

$_COOKIE['124-ctns'] => 12
$_COOKIE['124-units'] => 2

But I’m realising that’s not going to work for what I need.

The code I’m using (jquery) is:

$.cookie('124-ctns', 12, { path: '/' });
$.cookie('124-units', 2, { path: '/' });

Any help would be appreciated 🙂

Answer 1

You can’t. Cookies ONLY store strings, not objects.
You can convert the objects to JSON so the code looks something like

$_COOKIE['124'] => json_encode(array( 'ctns' => 12, 'units' => 2 ));

n124 = JSON.parse($.cookie('124'));

Then the variable n124 should be the object so you can get the variables like
n124.ctns
n124.units