How to write Cookies in Javascript

Hello Friends,

In my web browser I wanted to set cookies which will help me in showing the Visited sites in the site address name,day,date and time, please help me giving some idea about the same.

I know this is possible but I stuck where should I starts from.


Any help would be Appreciated :notworthy

Cookies in JavaScript are accessed using the cookie property of the document object. In simple terms, we create a cookie like this:

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document.cookie = "name=value; expires=date; path=path;
                  domain=domain; secure";

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..and retrieve all our previously set cookies like this:

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var x = document.cookie;

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Let's look more closely at how to set and retrieve cookies.To set a cookie, we set the document.cookie property to a string containing the properties of the cookie that we want to create:

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document.cookie = "name=value; expires=date; path=path;
domain=domain; secure";

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It would be more difficult to explain all about the Cookie but i can tell you where we can store the Cookie,Physically, cookies are stored in a location known only to the browser, although for the main browser platforms, these locations are well-known. Logically, a cookie belongs to a domain and a path. When the JavaScript set cookies process is invoked, the script either presents the browser with a domain, or a blank value. If no domain is given it is assumed to be the domain of the page

First, we create a function that stores the name of the visitor in a cookie variable:

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function setCookie(c_name,value,expiredays)
{
var exdate=new Date();
exdate.setDate(exdate.getDate()+expiredays);
document.cookie=c_name+ "=" +escape(value)+
((expiredays==null) ? "" : ";expires="+exdate.toGMTString());
}

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The parameters of the function above hold the name of the cookie, the value of the cookie, and the number of days until the cookie expires.