Question

I have a jquery stat does something when the page loads:

$(document).ready(function(){  
  tb_show('#TB_inline?height=490&width=534&inlineId=compare', false);
});

what I want is for the script to run once in a while maybe every 2 days … any idea?

Answer 1

You need to set up a cookie to record the last time it showed up. That’s document.cookie, or better still, use jQuery’s cookie plugin functionality.

$(document).ready(function(){  

    var today=(new Date()).getTime();
    var two_days=1000*60*60*60*24*2;

    if($.cookie('lasttime')<today-two_days){

        // update cookie
        $.cookie('lasttime',today);

        // show popup
        tb_show('#TB_inline?height=490&width=534&inlineId=compare', false);

    }

});