Question

Basically, I’m looking to find out a way to create a pop up window that prompt a user a question, and in the window I’d like to have a checkbox saying “Don’t display this message again”. I’m not quite sure how to go about this, I’ve done a bit of research but I’ve found nothing, I’d love to be able to find out how so I can help the community with the result!

So to sum up, I want a pop up window that checks if the user has “checked” do not display, then it will not perform the function, the function and jquery is fine I can do all that, but as for the “per user” request, I’ve got no idea 🙁

I’d love the help guys!

Answer 1

Assuming PHP:

$('.checkbox').on('change', function(){
   if($(this).is(':checked')){
       var doNotShow = TRUE;
       //the chekbox has been checked, the user does not want to see this again.
       $.ajax({
         url: 'path/to/my/controller.ext',
         data: 'doNotShow='+doNotShow,
         success: function(data){
           //the data has been sent to the server, close the popup box, do whatever is necessary here.
           // change the window location, whatever.
         }
       });

   }
});

The serverside PHP code (path/to/my/controller.ext) —

if(isset($_POST['doNotShow']) && $_POST['doNotShow'] == TRUE):
  $_SESSION['doNotShow'] = $_POST['doNotShow'];
endif;

Now, before you load that dialog box, you’ll want to add some PHP conditionalizing it.

<?php
if(!isset($_SESSION['doNotShow'])):
?>
    //javascript to launch the popup, the session is not set.
<?php
elseif(isset($_SESSION['doNotShow']) && ($_SESSION['doNotShow'] == TRUE)):
?>
    //don't launch the popup, they don't want to see it, whatever..
<?php
endif;