Re: Pass Javascript Session Cookie to LiveCode Variable?

2020-11-06 Thread Rick Harrison via use-livecode
Hi Matthias, Hmm, I should never do things when I’m tired. I do the following all the time with LC session variables and they do use the quotes. put $_SESSION["userid"] into Varuserid Yet the following works nicely and no array is needed: var amount1 = 23; var amount2 = 56; var total =

Re: Pass Javascript Session Cookie to LiveCode Variable?

2020-11-06 Thread matthias rebbe via use-livecode
I doubt that the qoutes were the problem. ;) Your put $_cookie[username] will replace the content of the var username. In your case, if the value of variable username for example is Peter then LC would replace $_cookie[username] with $_cookie["Peter"] If username wasn't used before then LC

Re: Pass Javascript Session Cookie to LiveCode Variable?

2020-11-05 Thread Rick Harrison via use-livecode
Hi Matthias, I found the problem. You had: put $_Cookie["username”] It shouldn’t have the quotes. put $_Cookie[username] works fine. I think I made the same mistake sometime! LOL Cookies reside in the client’s web-browser which is why as users were are always clearing them out. So,

Re: Pass Javascript Session Cookie to LiveCode Variable?

2020-11-05 Thread matthias rebbe via use-livecode
Rick, you are mixing something. $_session array is stored on the server while sessionstorage is stored on the clients computer. I am not sure that there is a direct way to let Livecode Server read sessionstorage directly from the clients computer, but i might be wrong. At least PHP is not

Re: Pass Javascript Session Cookie to LiveCode Variable?

2020-11-04 Thread Rick Harrison via use-livecode
Hi Matthias, Session Variables are like cookies except they auto-expire at the end of a browser session like when you close a tab or window. In Javascript one would set a session variable this way: