Visits

By JavaScriptSource Staff on Jul 1, 1997

General

This cookies records how many times the visitor has visited the page and writes to the page accordingly.

Notes

Posted: July 01, 1997

Source Code

Paste this source code into the designated areas.

External file

Paste this code into an external JavaScript file named: visits.js

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 getCookieVal (j);
    i = document.cookie.indexOf(” “, i) + 1;
    if (i == 0) break;
  }
  return null;
}

function SetCookie (name, value) {
  var argv = SetCookie.arguments;
  var argc = SetCookie.arguments.length;
  var expires = (argc > 2) ? argv[2] : null;
  var path = (argc > 3) ? argv[3] : null;
  var domain = (argc > 4) ? argv[4] : null;
  var secure = (argc > 5) ? argv[5] : false;
  document.cookie = name + “=” + escape (value) +
  ((expires == null) ? “” : (“; expires=” + expires.toGMTString())) +
  ((path == null) ? “” : (“; path=” + path)) +
  ((domain == null) ? “” : (“; domain=” + domain)) +
  ((secure == true) ? “; secure” : “”);
}

function DeleteCookie (name) {
  var exp = new Date();
  exp.setTime (exp.getTime() – 1);
  var cval = GetCookie (name);
  document.cookie = name + “=” + cval + “; expires=” + exp.toGMTString();
}

var expDays = 30;
var exp = new Date();
exp.setTime(exp.getTime() + (expDays*24*60*60*1000));

function amt(){
  var count = GetCookie(‘count’)
  if(count == null) {
    SetCookie(‘count’,’1′)
    return 1
    }
    else {
    var newcount = parseInt(count) + 1;
    DeleteCookie(‘count’)
    SetCookie(‘count’,newcount,exp)
    return count
  }
}

function getCookieVal(offset) {
  var endstr = document.cookie.indexOf (“;”, offset);
  if (endstr == -1)
  endstr = document.cookie.length;
  return unescape(document.cookie.substring(offset, endstr));
}

function printOut() {
  document.write(“You’ve been here <b>” + amt() + “</b> times.”);
}

Head

Paste this code into the HEAD section of your HTML document.


<script type=”text/javascript” src=”visits.js”></script>

Body

Paste this code into the BODY section of your HTML document


<script type=”text/javascript”>
<!–
  printOut()
//–>
</script>