Help with cookie program

**wahboo** · 12-08-2008, 08:45 PM

I need help with my script I can't seem to get it working. Can someone please help? I need a cookie script that stores the date and time of your last visit.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Last Visit</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="js_styles.css" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body >
<script type="text/javascript">
/* <![CDATA[ */
if (document.cookie) {
var cookieString = decodeURIComponent(document.cookie);
var cookieArray = cookieString.split("; ");
var lasVisit =
cookieArray[0].substring(cookieArray[0].indexOf("=")
+ 1, cookieArray[0].length);
document.write("<p>Your last visit was " + lastVisit
+ "</p>");
}
else
document.write("<p>This is your first visit.</p>");
var now = new Date();
var day = now.getDay();
var date = now.getDate();
var year = now.getFullYear();
var month = now.getMonth(0);
var hours = now.getHours();
var minutes = now.getMinutes();
var seconds = now.getSeconds();
var days = new Array();
days[0] = "Sunday"; days[1] = "Monday"; days[2] = "Tuesday";
days[3] = "Wednesday"; days[4] = "Thursday"; days[5] = "Friday"; days[6] = "Saturday";
var thisVisit = days[day] + " " + month + "/" + date + "/" + year + " at "+ hours + ":" + minutes + ":" + seconds;
document.cookie = encodeURIComponent(thisVisit);
/* ]]> */
</script>
</body>
</html>

**budster** · 12-09-2008, 05:35 AM

Hi wahboo
Have a look at this article for reuseable cookie functions which may make things a bit easier for you.
http://www.astral-consultancy.co.uk/...doco.cgi?11180
Hope this helps

**mikem** · 12-09-2008, 05:57 AM

Hi wahboo,

This seems to be a simple solution...

<script type="text/javascript">

if (document.cookie)
{
document.write("<p>Your last visit was "+unescape(document.cookie)+"</p>");
}
else
{
document.write("<p>This is your first visit.</p>");
}

function setCookie()
{
document.cookie=escape(new Date());
}

onunload=setCookie;

</script>

Mike

**Logic Ali** · 12-09-2008, 08:04 AM

Originally Posted by mikem

Code:

if (document.cookie) 
{
  document.write("<p>Your last visit was "+unescape(document.cookie)+"</p>");
}

This will display all the cookies visible on the current domain, which may not be quite what's required.

Code:

function setCookie()
{
  document.cookie=escape(new Date());
}

This will create an incorrectly formatted cookie that will expire when the browser is closed.

This topic is easily researched.

**mikem** · 12-09-2008, 01:56 PM

Hi Logic Ali,

I only said the previous script seems to be a simple solution.

Of course it can be extended with a 1-year cookie life and cookie name-matching with something like this...

Code:

if(document.cookie.match(new RegExp("LastVisit=([^;]+)"))) 
{
  document.write("<p>Last Visit:"+unescape(RegExp.$1)+"</p>"); 
}
else { document.write("<p>This is your first visit.</p>"); }

function setCookie()
{
    var expiry=new Date();
    expiry.setTime( expiry.getTime() + (365*24*60*60*1000) );
    document.cookie="LastVisit="+escape(new Date())+";expires="+expiry.toGMTString()+";";
}

onunload=setCookie;

Mike

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