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Apr 03.2006

I had a nice little alert box on my homepage on April 1. It was a javascript prank for all my visitors. The problem, however, was everytime they went to the hoempage, it showed up again. Needless to say many of them were very annoyed.

Does any one know how to limit this to only the first time a user visits the homepage? It doesn’t have to be javascript; I’m willing to learn something new. I thought of making a duplicate of the homepage w/o the pop-up and having all the links point there, but that was TOO MUCH rewriting. I didn’t want to take the high chances of messing something up.

Any ideas?

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@TiGGiApr 03.2006 — use cookies, you make cookie with value = "beenHere"

and on you message look for cookie and if it exist and value = beenHere then don't display message!

Here is tut on cookies:

http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html#ex
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@felgallApr 03.2006 — See http://www.felgall.com/jstip64.htm for a script that tests if it is the first time the page has been viewed in the current session.
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@brasspenguinsauthorApr 04.2006 — Thnx to both of you. I've been wanting to learn how to use cookies, and the second link makes this specific operation really simple. Muchas gracias!
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