Creating Cookies

[John]

how can i create a cookie in java script? i basically want a function that does the equivilant of this in php

PHP Code:

setcookie('clicked', "TRUE", time()+99999) 


what i intend is to have a link, and when it is clicked, the javascript create a cookie

<a href="http://www.google.com" onclick"CookieClick()">gooooogle</a>

or something like that

CookieClick() would then create the cookie

[Blaze]

You access them by the document.cookie

document.cookie =
  'ppkcookie1=testcookie; expires=Thu, 2 Aug 2001 20:47:11 UTC; path=/'

1. First the name-value pair ('ppkcookie1=testcookie')
2. then a semicolon and a space
3. then the expiry date in the correct format ('expires=Thu, 2 Aug 2001 20:47:11 UTC')
4. again a semicolon and a space
5. then the path (path=/)


From: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html

[John]

that seems easy enough..also rather then specifying a specific date, would it be possable to create it so the cookies expire 24 hours after they are created (dynamically)

[Void]

Yes, here is some code:

var expireDate = new Date()
expireDate.setHours(expireDate.getHours()-10)

Add it here:

document.cookie =
  'ppkcookie1=testcookie; path=/; expires=' + expireDate.toGMTString();

However, this is untested. I just took it from some other code on the web.