Question

I’m quite new to jQuery, and I’m trying to get the jQuery plugin, jquery.cookie.js to write a cookie, and then redirect based on the cookie value. Here’s an outline of what I’m trying to accomplish:

Upon landing on a splash page, the user selects their language preference. They can also check a “remember me” checkbox, which writes the cookie lang-pref with a value of either en or fr. Upon future visits, visitors are redirected to either an English homepage or a French homepage.

Here’s my code for writing the cookie:

$(function() 
{
    $("#en").change(function() //#en is the id of the checkbox
    {
        if ($(this).is(":checked"))
        $.cookie('mem', 'en', { expires: 3652 }); // mem is the cookie name, en is the value
    })
});

And here is the code to read the cookie, which I’m reasonably sure I’ve screwed up, as the redirect doesn’t work. I’m not sure how to fix it, though:

$(function() {
    if ($.cookie('mem'))
    $(location).html ("window.location.href = 'http://www.mysite.com/home-en.php'");
});

I’ve looked over the docs for this plugin, but I’m still not sure how to use the actual cookie’s value to perform actions: the examples given on the project’s GitHub page, for example, shows how to read a cookie, simply by doing what I’ve done in the code above.

Long story short, I can’t figure out how to read the value of a cookie, and then use said value to perform a redirect.

Answer 1

Simple case of overcooking

$(function() {
    if ($.cookie('mem')) window.location.href = 'http://www.mysite.com/home-en.php';
});