Write cookies using ASP with this tutorial.
Cookies are a good way to keep information handy
while interacting with the client. No matter how you feel about cookies, good bad or
indifferent, they are an integral part of many webs. Why not unlock
the mystery and write your own?
By adding this code to the top of your page
you will drop a cookie on the client. One way to use this is to
determine if a user has been to your site before. This cookie is set
to expire on June 15 2005.
Now if you want the cookie to expire when they
leave just don't give it an expiration like so:
<%
Response.Cookies("nuts")=1
%>
Here's how to read the cookie and use it to
display a greeting:
<%
If Request.Cookies("nuts") = 1 Then
greet = "Welcome Back To Nuts4asp"
Else
greet = "Welcome To Nuts4asp"
End If
Response.Write greet
Response.Cookies("nuts")=1
Response.Cookies(nuts").Expires="June 15, 2005"
%>
Now you will note that I set the cookie AFTER
I checked for it. This is because if we write the cookie before
checking, it would always say Welcome Back.
