Question

<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function(){
if (document.cookie.indexOf('visited=false') == -1)
{
var fifteenDays = 1000*60*60*24*30;
var expires = new Date((new Date()).valueOf() + fifteenDays);
document.cookie = "visited=true;expires=" + expires.toUTCString();
$.colorbox({width:"400px", inline:true, href:"#exestylepopups"});
}
});
</script>

What’s wrong with my above code my facebook like popup is called every time the page is loaded in my blog. I just to show only one time every 30 days.How i can do that?

Answer 1

Your particular implementation looks like it has you checking the cookie for 'visited=false', but setting the cookie to 'visited=true' so your if statement will never match.

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I’d suggest you use a proven set of cookie manipulation functions and then your task will be pretty easy.

Here are the cookie functions I use when my environment doesn’t already have them:

function createCookie(name,value,days) {
    if (days) {
        var date = new Date();
        date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
        var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
    }
    else var expires = "";
    document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";
}

function readCookie(name) {
    var nameEQ = name + "=";
    var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
    for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {
        var c = ca[i];
        while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);
        if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);
    }
    return null;
}

function eraseCookie(name) {
    createCookie(name,"",-1);
}

Once you have those, you can do this:

jQuery(document).ready(function() {
    var visited = readCookie('visited');
    if (!visited || visited !== "true") {
        createCookie('visited', "true", 30);
        $.colorbox({width:"400px", inline:true, href:"#exestylepopups"});
    }
});