Nov 19th, 2012
I use to use custom code for setting and getting cookies. Now I just use jquery.cookie, which can be found here: https://github.com/carhartl/jquery-cookie/
I've included my old cookie code below, just for historical reference :)
function getCookie(c_name) { var i,x,y,ARRcookies=document.cookie.split(";"); for (i=0;i<ARRcookies.length;i++) { x=ARRcookies[i].substr(0,ARRcookies[i].indexOf("=")); y=ARRcookies[i].substr(ARRcookies[i].indexOf("=")+1); x=x.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g,""); if (x==c_name) { return unescape(y); } } } function setCookie(c_name,value,exdays) { var exdate=new Date(); exdate.setDate(exdate.getDate() + exdays); var c_value=escape(value) + ((exdays==null) ? "" : "; expires="+exdate.toUTCString()); document.cookie=c_name + "=" + c_value; }
Here's another way to create, edit, delete a cookie:
function getCookie(name) { var start = document.cookie.indexOf(name + "="); var len = start + name.length + 1; if (( !start ) && ( name != document.cookie.substring(0, name.length) )) { return null; } if (start == -1) return null; var end = document.cookie.indexOf(';', len); if (end == -1) end = document.cookie.length; return decodeURI(document.cookie.substring(len, end)); } function setCookie(name, value, expires, path, domain, secure) { var today = new Date(); today.setTime(today.getTime()); if (expires) { expires = expires * 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24; } var expires_date = new Date(today.getTime() + (expires)); document.cookie = name + '=' + encodeURI(value) + ( ( expires ) ? ';expires=' + expires_date.toGMTString() : '' ) + //expires.toGMTString() ( ( path ) ? ';path=' + path : '' ) + ( ( domain ) ? ';domain=' + domain : '' ) + ( ( secure ) ? ';secure' : '' ); } function deleteCookie(name, path, domain) { if (getCookie(name)) document.cookie = name + '=' + ( ( path ) ? ';path=' + path : '') + ( ( domain ) ? ';domain=' + domain : '' ) + ';expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:01 GMT'; }