jecookie

Javascript easy cookie manipulation.

Requirements

The below requirements are only if you want to save and load json objects to cookie, if not you can save raw data.

• JSON https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js to save json objects to cookie using stringify method.
  • Please consider browser native support or only copy the stringify method to your utilities.
• jQuery https://github.com/jquery/jquery to convert loaded content to json object.

Usage

###Create a cookie var cookie = new jecookie('cookie_name'); var cookie = new jecookie('cookie_name', {name : 'value'}, {secure :true, domain : '.example.org'});

Params:

• name: cookie name
• data: data
• opts: options
  • opts.secure set secure
  • opts.domain domain
  • opts.path path
  • opts.expires expiration, use 0 to session cookie

###Load a cookie cookie.load();

###Change data If JSON support:

cookie.data = {name : value, content : value};

Otherwise:

cookie.data = value;

###Change options cookie.opts.secure = true; cookie.opts.domain = '.example.org'

###Save data cookie.save(); //default expiration cookie.save(0); //session cookie

###Destroy a cookie cookie.destroy();

Example

//...
var cookie = new jecookie('settings');
if(cookie.load()) //cookie exists
{
  my_element.height = cookie.data.height;
  my_element.width  = cookie.data.width;
}
else //cookie does not exists
{
  cookie.data =
  {
    height : 100,
    width  : 100
  };
  cookie.save();
}
//...

Support

• IE 6+
• FF 3+
• Chrome 10+
• Opera 10+

Version history

• 1.0
  • Basic base code
• 1.1
  • Third parameter as an options object in constructor
  • Removed path param in save method
  • Domain, path and session cookie support
  • Control for array in loaded data
• 1.1.1
  • Change to MIT license

Author

Alejandro El Informático

License

The MIT license

Copyright (c) 2011 Alejandro El Infromático

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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