Set an array to a cookie ?

[hooligan2001]

I dont know much about creating cookies and retrieving inforation and var's from cookies. So i was just wondering if its possible to set an entire array to a cookie.

eg

myArray = [["James","Daniel","Jeff"],
           ["Kate","Shelly","Sarah"],
           ["Jessica","John","Sally"]];

How would i do this and can i do this.

And how do i retrieve the array and place the array in my actionscript.
Im trying to create a save functoin that saves certian arrays and varibles to one cookie and then when the user starts the swf agian it reconises that the user has been on before and loads the array and the other var's to the swf.

If i cant do this i dont know what i can do

I think i saw a tut somewhere a while back but i forgot where.

ThankS in AdvancE

[h]ooligan

[hooligan2001]

Anyone , please help this is fairly urgent!

[ChriSell]

You are right about seeing a tutorial about saving and reloading at a later date. But if I remember correctly it is not through cookies... I think it is by saving a .swf file with the varibles to the users computer. I will try and find were this tut was...
Sorry this didn't help much I'll try to be quick with a search...
Christopher Michael

[hooligan2001]

Thanks heaps ChriSell. That would be great.

I have seen them do this through setcookie and retireve cookie too. But dont know how it works.

[BlinkOk]

you might wanna try this before you save it to a cookie;

myArray = [["James","Daniel","Jeff"],
           ["Kate","Shelly","Sarah"],
           ["Jessica","John","Sally"]];
myString = myArray.toString();

and this after you load it from a cookie;

myArray = myString.split(",");

now there are a couple of caveats to this;
1. you strings cannot contain a comma (i think)
2. when the loaded string is split it will split it into a one dimensional array not a two dimensional array so you might have to add some code to convert it.
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of course if your using mx then you could do it much easier using shared objects;
http://www.koyote.dk/index.php?sid=36
courtesy of the learned edmack
hope this helps
BlinkOk

[hooligan2001]

Thanks Heaps blink that will be a big help. Another quicky. How do i change a a heap of one dimensional arrays into a 2d array ?

Do i just add each 1d array as a sibling to the 2d array ?

[BlinkOk]

i would say that's the way to go; however you should know that unless you assign each indivual element of the array then you are assigning pointers and when you change a value in the new array you will be changing a value in the old arrays as well.

[voodoo-wizard]

There's no need to do that. The attached fla will store a 2D array and retrieve it as a 2D array using sharedObjects.
The prototype code is by flashguru (as far as I can remember).

Enjoy!

[hooligan2001]

Thanks BlinkOk.

Thank you too voodoo-wizard. I cant seem to download the file atm dunno why. But ill try agian later.

Thanks agian

[hooligan2001]

Finally got it. Thanks heaps for the fla voodoo-wizard works great