Jonathan Buchanan

Features

• Get, set and clear cookies.
• Also provides a means of using Internet Explorer's proprietary userData behaviour for larger, persistent storage.

Usage

Initialisation of a CookieManager object:

var manager = new CookieManager();
var manager = new CookieManager({shelfLife:30});

Using IE's userData behaviour instead of cookies in IE:

var manager = new CookieManager({userData:true});

Using the cookie manager:

manager.setCookie("myCookie", aVariable);
var cookieValue = manager.getCookie("myCookie");
manager.clearCookie("myCookie");

Dependencies

• Prototype Framework

None.

Reference

Method	Kind	Argument	Description
CookieManager([options])	constructor	options options for this instance of a CookieManager	Creates an instance of this object using the given options, if any
getCookie(cookieName)	instance	cookieName the name of a cookie	Returns the value of the specified cookie if it exists, null otherwise
setCookie(cookieName, value)	instance	cookieName the name of a cookie value a string to be stord in a cookie	Stores the given value in a cookie with the given name
clearCookie(cookieName)	instance	cookieName the name of a cookie	Clears the cookie with the given name

The options argument object

Property	Type	Default	Description
shelfLife	Number	365	How long should the cookie expire after
userData	Boolean	false	When running on Internet Explorer, should its proprietary userData behaviour be used for storage instead of cookies