is it possible to value store cookies in Flash or Flex?

Question

In PHP there is a setcookie function based to store it. In Flash is it possible ?. If it is possible then how? I want to store value.

Answer 1

for an actual code example:

import flash.net.SharedObject;

// get/create the shared object with a unique name.
// If the shared object exists this grab it, if not
// then it will create a new one
var so: SharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal("UniqueName");

// the shared object has a propery named data, it's
// an object on which you can create, read, or modify
// properties (you can't set the data property itself!)
// you can check to see if it already has something set
// using hasOwnProperty, so we'll check if it has a var
// use it if it does, or set it to a default if it doesn't
if (so.data.hasOwnProperty("theProp"))
{
    trace("already has data! It reads: " + so.data.theProp);
}
else
{
    so.data.theProp = "default value";
    so.flush(); // flush saves the data
    trace("It didn't have a value, so we set it.");
}

Paste this in flash, publish it twice and see how it stored the data :)