How to save some values permanently on a browser?

Question

I have some login information, let say user name, login email Id and location.

I want keep this information in the browser even after the user logout an

Answer 1

LocalStorage is considered to be the best solution for storing values permanently in the browser.!! A good explanation about the LocalStorage can be found here.

This is my code used to save the value to the LocalStorage.

         function saveLoginNameToLocalStorage()  
                {
                 if(typeof(Storage)!=="undefined")//checks whether the browser support localStorage
                  {
                        // you dont want to create a variable by var variablename, 
                        // just give it as localStorage.yourVariableName, before assigning 
                        // any values the variable is shown as  undefined.
                         if(localStorage.userName && localStorage.userName !="" && localStorage.userName==document.getElementById("userName").value){
                            document.getElementById("redirectUrl").value=localStorage.redirectURI;
                        }
                        else{
                            localStorage.redirectURI="";
                            document.getElementById("redirectUrl").value="";
                        }
                         localStorage.userName=document.getElementById("userName").value;
                         localStorage.redirectURI="";
                  } 
                }

You can access the variable using localStorage.userName from anywhere in the browser. Worked well for me. ;-)

Thanks everyone for the help provided..!!

Answer 2

I think you could use cookies for storing data on client side, follow this link

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/jsp/jsp_cookies_handling.htm

set storing age using the method public void setMaxAge(int expiry);

Also another solution is local storage in HTML5 but this is supported only in latest browsers.

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_webstorage.asp

http://diveintohtml5.info/storage.html

hope these links will help you