Create a cookie and read it back : Cookie « Development « JavaScript Tutorial






  1. JavaScript Tutorial
  2. Development
  3. Cookie
<HTML>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<SCRIPT language="JavaScript">
<!--
function set_it() {
   var the_text="name=yourName&";
   var toexpire= new Date("March 15, 2008");
   var expdate="expires="+toexpire.toGMTString();
   the_text+=expdate;

   var newtext=escape(the_text);
   document.cookie=newtext;
}

function read_it() {

 if (document.cookie) {

    var mycookie=document.cookie;
    var fixed_cookie= unescape(mycookie);
    var thepairs= fixed_cookie.split("&");
    var pair1= thepairs[0];
    var pair2= thepairs[1];

    var namevalue1= pair1.split("=");
    alert("read");
    alert("Welcome, "+namevalue1+"!");
 } else  {
   alert("set");
   set_it();
 }
}

read_it();
//-->
</SCRIPT>
</BODY>
</HTML>








4.4.Cookie
4.4.1.JavaScript and Cookies
4.4.2.Reading Cookies
4.4.3.Writing Cookies
4.4.4.Create a cookie and read it back
4.4.5.Make cookie using Javascript
4.4.6.Delete all cookies
4.4.7.Read cookie value