javascript help

[winracer]

I found the code here http://javascript.internet.com/cookies/new-to-you.html

you place this in the head.

<script type="text/javascript" src="newYou.js"></script>

here is the newYou.js

now = new Date
expireDate = new Date
expireDate.setMonth(expireDate.getMonth()+6)
lastVisit = new Date(cookieVal("pageVisit"))
document.cookie = "pageVisit="+now+";expires=" + expireDate.toGMTString()
 
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 "1 January 1970"
}
 
function newCheck(yyy,mm,dd) {
  lastChgd = new Date(yyy,mm-1,dd)
  if (lastChgd.getTime() > lastVisit.getTime()) {
    document.write("<img src='/img/new-to-you/new.gif' alt='new'>")
  }
}

then you place this in the body

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"> newCheck(2005,2,11)</script> Be sure to check out our new scripts!
<br>
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"> newCheck(2005,2,3)</script> Have you seen our Tutorials?

ok I found out that is is the date

[code]

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"> newCheck(2005,2,11)</script> Be sure to check out our new scripts!
</code>

(2005,2,11)
2005 is the year
2 is the month
11 is the date

is there away to pull the date in from a file. like a varable my perl script uses $expiration_date I tried

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"> newCheck($expiration_date )</script> Be sure to check out our new scripts!

also

but don't work and change the code to this below to have the month date year

now = new Date
expireDate = new Date
expireDate.setMonth(expireDate.getMonth()+1)
lastVisit = new Date(cookieVal("pageVisit"))
document.cookie = "pageVisit="+now+";expires=" + expireDate.toGMTString()

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 "1 January 1970"
}

function newCheck(mm,dd,yyy) {
  lastChgd = new Date(mm-1,dd,yyy)
  if (lastChgd.getTime() > lastVisit.getTime()) {
    document.write("<img src='/new.gif' alt='new'>")

could someone help please

[winracer]

here is what I have now

 
 
($today_month,$today_day,$today_year) = split (/\//, $fields[$index_of_modification_time]);
$thedate = "$today_year,$today_month,$today_day";
 
 
 
($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $yday, $isdst) = localtime (time);
@Days = ("Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday");
@Months = ("01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12");
$day = $Days[$wday];
$date = $mday + 0;
$year = 1900 + $year;
$month = $Months[$mon];
# Format the date any way you want, ie. $date/$month/$year or $year/$date/$month
 
$new986 = "$year,$month,$date";
 
 
 
$new654 = "$year,$month,$date" - "$today_year,$today_month,$today_day";

and I use this. to display the NEW.

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"> newCheck($today_year,$today_month,$today_day)</script>

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"> newCheck($year,$month,$date)</script>

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"> newCheck(2009,3,1)</script></font></td>

and the date is in the right format now but NEW not work .


but what I need is to somehow take $thedate example 2009,3,15
and

and subtract it from the last vist. list say the last vist was 2009,3,10

I would like any item for the 5 days to display a NEW beside them.

maybe take todays date $new986 - last time visted and somehow out put the 5 days in example I am not sure how to