Persistent JS Variables

[Selacius]

I am wondering how it would be possible to have a variable/s which are able to persist throughout multiple web-pages. For example, I setup my quest array which handles all of the quest information when the main exploration page loads up. Now I would like to only have to populate these arrays once and somehow allow them to be accessed from different pages which stem off the exploration page.Any clues? Thanks

[Ingolme]

You would have to look into PHP to store the variables in sessions. If you want a purely Javascript solution, you'll have to add a query string to the URL of your links and have the script of the other pages read it.

[ApocalypeX]

GET URL variables.

function getUrlParameter(name){  name = name.replace(/[\[]/,"\\\[").replace(/[\]]/,"\\\]");  var regexS = "[\\?&]"+name+"=([^]*)";  var regex = new RegExp( regexS );  var results = regex.exec( window.location.href );  if(results == null) {    return "";  } else {    return results[1];  }}

[thescientist]

if you use GET and pass via query string, people could manipulate it and alter the game. I think you're best is via PHP + SESSIONS, or MySQL.

[jeffman]

Something wrong with cookies here? The array can be serialized (in JSON format, for example) and saved as a cookie string.

[Ingolme]

Oh, that's right. I wasn't sure whether Javascript cookies would work on more than one page.

[dsonesuk]

the cookie has a size limit of 4 to 5kb, so long as the data does not exceed this, cookie might be an option to consider.