如何让我的页面记住用户的最后操作？

Question

We have a search form which allows users to search for items on the page.

There is also another form with checkboxes that allows users to refine their searches with the hope of reducing the number of search results.

For instance, if I enter McCland on the search box and 13 results marching McCland are returned, I can click on Advanced search and a bunch of checkboxes are rendered.

I can then check "Street" , "Road" , "LandMarks" , etc. I can then click search on McCland again.

This time, only addresses with Street or Road or LandMarks will be displayed if available.

This works great.

Then there is a Remember This Action icon.

My biggest challenge so far is to allow users to click on this Remember This Action icon and save their current results.

This way, next time they visit the page, the results they searched for previously are presented to them unless they choose to search with another option.

If they click on this Remember This Action icon, they will be prompted with a message explaining that they are about to save their current Results.

They can click Yes to save or Cancel to not save.

I suspect this will be done with cookies(jquery or Javascriot) but I am not sure how to do this.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

If you're looking for a jQuery solution you could use the JQuery Cookie Plugin: https://github.com/carhartl/jquery-cookie

You're code might look something like this:

//Set the action
$.cookie('last_action', 'the_action');

//Get the action
var last_action = $.cookie('last_action');
if (typeof last_action != 'undefined') {
    // show last action
} else {
   //show default
}