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Asked: 2026-05-15T19:26:24+00:00

Now, this requirement may seem weird. But i would like to know how to

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Now, this requirement may seem weird. But i would like to know how to achieve this?
I am having an HTML file, which is having few input box, check box, radio button etc. I would like to retain the changes a user [ actually i ] performs on this page. Like if the user has ticked a checkbox then next time anybody open that file should see that checkbox as ticked.

This thing can be done easily using HTTP cookies. But i don’t want to use cookies.
The answer can be as simple as “No you can not do that” 🙂

Edit
That’s the problem with not phrasing the question correctly.

I guess i can’t use DB as if i will send my HTML page to someone then he/she will not be able to see my changes. I want my changes to be reflected on other systems also. [ thats the reason i was not going for cookies ]. Other solution what i was thinking was, using FileSystemObject. Any other solution ? again the answer can be “No you can not do that” 😀

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  1. Editorial Team

    You could bind the change events of your form elements to an AJAX submit, log the submits to the db and then on any page load grab the latest states from the db for rendering.

    Edit

    If you want these changes to appear “simultaneously” for other users then you could use jQuery polling to update the page – have the page periodically poll the server for the latest state.

    Having said that, if you give them a server link and not the actual file they will see your db changes.

    However, it sounds like you want to actually send the file (not send someone to a web server) in which case you could do something like one of these approaches:

    • Your PHP/whatever file (can possibly even do this with javascript) outputs a HTML file with appropriate checked="checked", selected="selected", value="blah" etc. You send this file.

    • Your PHP/whatever file outputs a static reference file. Your HTML file has javascript referencing and using the values stored in this file. You send both of these files around (although value updates only require a changed static reference file).

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