Cookie question

norcoscia · October 10, 2018, 5:10pm

So I have a simple web site with w/o logins and server side stuff. Someone goes to one of the calculators and enters values. Those values are used in calculations and an area of the page displays the results.

So the second a visitor leaves everything is gone (reset). Is there a simple way I can push a cookie to their computer with the values they have entered?

I’m hoping that I can set it up so when they come back the page will auto populate with the last set of values they used.

An example of the calculation page can be found here

http://www.mypizzamaster.com/calculator.php

PS. I’m hoping that someone will point me to a big button I just press and it all happens, maybe in Wappler 1.5 if not available yet

Teodor · October 10, 2018, 5:23pm

Please check this https://www.dmxzone.com/go/32764/dmxzone-app-connect-manual/ its the same in Wappler. You can store all the form values in a cookies.

t11 · October 10, 2018, 6:30pm

Cookies work really great in AppConnect, have used them many times and they function exactly as they have to

norcoscia · October 10, 2018, 6:45pm

I though I was going to get it.

I added the cookie manager, defined some cookies, basically did everything in the video until it got to 2 min and 43 seconds.

I can’t seem to find the insert binding button (arrow in pict below)…

t11 · October 10, 2018, 6:50pm

Did you click inside the page, where you want to bind cookie data?

norcoscia · October 10, 2018, 6:53pm

I think I’m in the spot - but I have never done this before. This is where I am…

t11 · October 10, 2018, 6:57pm

Find the
Dynamic Attributes and hit + sign
then Input->Value
and bind the cookie value

norcoscia · October 10, 2018, 7:10pm

Thanks - I think I understood what you said - I just need to test - I’ve got a pile of these to do…

Hope I can move this to and includes file and reuse it on multiple pages once I get a set finished

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norcoscia · October 10, 2018, 7:20pm

That does not seem to work - I must be doing something wrong or not doing a good job explaining what I’m trying to make happen…

t11 · October 10, 2018, 7:33pm

type anywhere inside your code {{cookies1.data.datemixed}} and see if it will display any value

*anywhere between body tags

norcoscia · October 10, 2018, 7:52pm

Nope, I don’t see anything anywhere - maybe it does not work with date-picker info…

But I don’t have any double braces in my code either.

norcoscia · October 10, 2018, 8:21pm

This is working great for a normal form field - just does not seem to work with a date from a date-picker (but I might have made a mistake with that one)…

norcoscia · October 10, 2018, 8:46pm

Just FYI, this worked once but I had to add a second dynamic action to update it after the first time through, is this expected?

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t11 · October 10, 2018, 9:40pm

well this depends on what you want to achieve and how your code is structured. If it worked then you are ok

norcoscia · October 10, 2018, 9:55pm

Thanks Nikolaos, yes it is working so that is perfect - I would have never figured it out if you did not help with that last step. I appreciate it very much

I guess it is normal for it not to work with date-picker, or do you think I should file a bug report?

t11 · October 10, 2018, 10:01pm

Well truth is that I never had to use datepicker with cookie so I am not sure.