timed div overlay loop using cookies

Hi,

I’m trying to create a div popup (yes, I know) that repeatedly appears every 7 minutes. It needs to work regardless of whether a user refreshes or navigates to different pages within the site, so I’m attemping to use a cookie to stop the timer from restarting every time the user changes page or refreshes.

My thinking’s like this:

With my VERY limited knowladge of javascript this is what I’ve got as the JavaScript for the cookie/popup trigger: It doesn’t even appear to be setting the cookie currently. Can anyone help and tell me what am I doing wrong? I’d really appreciate it. Thanks.

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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);
}

function popup_cookie() {
var x = getTime;
createCookie(‘popup_cookie_01’,x,0);
}

function open_float() {
setVisible(‘floating_layer’);
return false;
}

function popup() {
var y = getTime;
var x = readCookie(‘popup_cookie_01’);
if y >= (x + 420000) {
open_float();
eraseCookie(‘popup_cookie_01’);
}
}

function check_popup() {
setInterval(“popup()”,5000)
}

function exit_float() {
popup_cookie();
setVisible(‘floating_layer’);
return false;
}

addLoadEvent(popup_cookie)
addLoadEvent(check_popup)

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