JavaScript setcookie
Send a cookie
1 2 3 4 56 7 8 9 1011 12 13 14 | function setcookie (name, value, expires, path, domain, secure) { // Send a cookie // // version: 1008.1718 // discuss at: http://phpjs.org/functions/setcookie // + original by: Jonas Raoni Soares Silva (http://www.jsfromhell.com) // + bugfixed by: Andreas // + bugfixed by: Onno Marsman // + improved by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net) // - depends on: setrawcookie // * example 1: setcookie('author_name', 'Kevin van Zonneveld'); // * returns 1: true return this.setrawcookie(name, encodeURIComponent(value), expires, path, domain, secure); } |
Examples
Running
1 | setcookie('author_name', 'Kevin van Zonneveld'); |
Should return
1 | true |
Dependencies
In order to use this function, you also need:
Open syntax issues
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Authors
Thanks to the following developers, you get to have setcookie goodness in JavaScript.
Brett Zamir
8 Jan '09 
Here's setrawcookie() (just removed encodeURIComponent())...
[CODE="Javascript"]
setrawcookie('author_name', 'Kevin van Zonneveld');
alert(document.cookie); // author_name=Kevin van Zonneveld
setcookie('author_name', 'Kevin van Zonneveld');
alert(document.cookie); // author_name=Kevin%20van%20Zonneveld
function setrawcookie(name, value, expires, path, domain, secure) {
// http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net
// * example 1: setrawcookie('author_name', 'Kevin van Zonneveld');
// * returns 1: true
expires instanceof Date ? expires = expires.toGMTString() : typeof(expires) == 'number' && (expires = (new Date(+(new Date) + expires * 1e3)).toGMTString());
var r = [name + "=" + value], s, i;
for(i in s = {expires: expires, path: path, domain: domain}){
s[i] && r.push(i + "=" + s[i]);
}
return secure && r.push("secure"), document.cookie = r.join(";"), true;
}[/CODE]
Onno Marsman
7 Nov '08
The encodeURI function does not encode characters like & and = . I think encodeURIComponent should be used instead.
Andreas
28 Oct '08
Usage of escape() is out-dated (isn't it?) and got some other problems (e.g. some UTF8 stuff). I think encodeURI() would be a better solution here.
However, thx for this project!
Kevin van Zonneveld
17 Jul '08
@ space_marine: I haven't tried that with Jonas' code so far. Can you share your findings?
space_marine
23 Jun '08
Can this function set array cookies?
[CODE="php"]
<?php
// set the cookies
setcookie("cookie[three]", "cookiethree");
setcookie("cookie[two]", "cookietwo");
setcookie("cookie[one]", "cookieone");
// after the page reloads, print them out
if (isset($_COOKIE['cookie'])) {
foreach ($_COOKIE['cookie'] as $name => $value) {
echo "$name : $value <br />\n";
}
}
?>
[/CODE]
Output:
three : cookiethree
two : cookietwo
one : cookieone
Kevin van Zonneveld
8 Jan '09