fredman73 — Wed, 22 May 2002 15:00:58 +0000

Most excellent!

Thank you!

Fred

Peter J. Boettcher — Tue, 21 May 2002 21:57:47 +0000

Here's a couple quick functions for setting and retrieving a cookie value:

function setcookie(name,value) {
var today = new Date();
var expires = new Date();
expires.setTime(today.getTime() + 60*60*24*365);
document.cookie = name + "=" + escape(value) + ((expires == null) ? "" :
("; expires=" + expires.toGMTString()));
}

So, to set the cookie value you would call setcookie("KeyName","Value"), and to retrieve it again, getcookie("KeyName")

fredman73 — Tue, 21 May 2002 18:18:22 +0000

Thanks, Peter!

I'm a newbie when it comes to coding cookies. If you'd have an example code I could play with or use, I'd be forever in your debt!

Cheers,

Fred

Peter J. Boettcher — Tue, 21 May 2002 17:17:32 +0000

Just add the following to the body tag:

Onload="putCookie();"

then in the function replace this line:

YouEntered=document.cf.cfd.value;

with your variable, for example:

var MyVariable = 'test';

YouEntered=MyVariable;

That should do it.

fredman73 — Tue, 21 May 2002 14:22:16 +0000

Thanks, Jack!

Unfortunately the code on that page includes a form so the user actually activates the cookie. WhatI need to do is set the cookie without the user having to see or do anything. Is there a way of taking out the code that uses the prompts to achieve this?

Cheers

Fred

Jack Michaelson — Tue, 21 May 2002 14:19:39 +0000

This helped me setting cookies:
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/cookie.html

Hope it helps,