What am I doing wrong?

**jls1988** · 01-26-2011 03:26 PM

The script i'm trying to write consist of asking the user for his name in a form format which is then sent in a cookie. When the user reconnect to the same page, it displays : Hi, "HISNAME", welcome to my site! I don't know what I'm doing wrong, seriously.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
if ( ! get_cookie ( "username" ) )
{
var username = document.write(

<form name="name">

<table>

<tr>

<td valign="top">

Name :

</td>

<td>

<input type="text" name="texte" value="">

</td>

<td>

<INPUT TYPE="button" NAME="bouton" Value="Click" onClick="testResults(this.form)">

</td>

</tr>

</table>

</form>);

if ( username )
{
var current_date = new Date;
var cookie_year = current_date.getFullYear ( ) + 1;
var cookie_month = current_date.getMonth ( );
var cookie_day = current_date.getDate ( );
set_cookie ( "username", username, cookie_year, cookie_month, cookie_day );
}
}
else
{
var username = get_cookie ( "username" );
document.write ( "Hi " + username + ", welcome to my website!" );
document.write ( "<br><a href=\"javascript:delete_cookie('username');
document.location.reload ( );\">
Forget about me!</a>" );
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

**thraddash** · 01-26-2011 03:45 PM

Where are these get_cookie and set_cookie functions defined, also the way you are writing out the <form> using document.write looks incorrect?

http://www.w3schools.com/JS/js_cookies.asp

**WolfShade** · 01-26-2011 04:16 PM

Everything in document.write needs to be in between the ( and ) on one line, and needs to be surrounded by " and ", which things like name="name" would break.

You could set a var thisContent = ""; then use the shortcut for appending the data and split it up across several lines, then document.write(thisContent);

Code:

var thisContent = "";
thisContent += "blah blah blah blah";
thisContent += "bleh bleh bleh bleh";
// and escape the "
thisContent += "<input name=\"name\" />";

document.write(thisContent);

^_^

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