Vincent Puglia — Wed, 15 Nov 2000 01:58:30 +0000

Hi Ian,

Cookies are nice, aren't they?

Any rate: while Max's solution will work, it won't help cutting down the code, especially if you decide to add more cookies. An alternative would be to put all of your information into a pseudo array and save it as the cookie. Then when you retrieve the cookie, you simply split the array and retrieve your individual values.

var cookieData = "";
cookieData = prompt(blahblah) ;
cookieData = "|" + lastVisitCode;

var the_cookie = cookieData + ";expires=" +expireDate.toGMTString()

when you retrieve it, you simply split the string into an array which you then assign appropriately:

var tmpArray = cookieData.split("|");
var the_name = tmpArray[0];
var lastVisit = tmpArray[1];
...etc...

Hope this helps
Vinny

Mark Hensler — Tue, 14 Nov 2000 06:32:06 +0000

I'm guessing that your creating a counter cookie as well (cause that's the value your reading), you didn't include it in the code, that's why I ask.

Anyway, you'll eventually be using multiple cookies. I dug this out of a book..

//pass the name of the cookie that you want to retrieve the value for

function cookieVal(cookieName) {
  thisCookie = document.cookie.split("; ")
    for (i=0; i<thisCookie.length; i++) {
      if (cookieName == thisCookie[i].split("=")[0]) {
        return thisCookie[i].split("=")[1]
      }
    }
  return 0
}

This will loop through all your cookies looking for the cookieName that you passed it. When it finds the cookie, it will return the value.

Good Luck,