Is there a way I can welcome a first time visitor to my site, or at least post them a special message?
This little snippet was contributed by Jeremy aka taz97@flash.net
whose brother Chad is some sort of computer genius. Thanks for
the submission guys.
Well, I should point out that it really is a message for people
that have never received your cookie. What's a cookie? It's
a small file that gets written to the hard disk. Don't worry, it
is not a security problem (so far!).
The person getting your cookie for the first time will get
a little message box containing your messages, with an OK
prompt to continue. This is a little hard to test as you have
to erase your cookies to make it work more than once for you.
In case you missed it, the message looks like this:
To install, just cut and past this code into your HTML
document- just below the <BODY> tag. You can change
the ZZZZZ to be your name or whatever.
Of course, also change the message- just be sure to keep
the ENTIRE message on ONE line!
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
function GetCookie(name) {
var arg=name+"=";
var alen=arg.length;
var clen=document.cookie.length;
var i=0;
while (i<clen) {
var j=i+alen;
if (document.cookie.substring(i,j)==arg)
return "here";
i=document.cookie.indexOf(" ",i)+1;
if (i==0) break;
}
return null;
}
var visit=GetCookie("ZZZZZ");
if (visit==null){
alert("Your Message Goes here and you only get to see it once!");
var expire=new Date();
expire=new Date(expire.getTime()+7776000000);
document.cookie="ZZZZZ=here; expires="+expire;
}
// -->
</SCRIPT>
