Help With Accessing Cookies When Web Pages Are Located in Different Folders

[Carl Read]

Hi,

First I would like to state that I am not a JavaScript expert.

I have a simple shopping basket that uses cookies. The problem is that all
the product pages and basket must be in the the same folder.

I was wondering if it is possible to create and save a cookie so that it can
be accessed and viewed by HTML pages that are located in various different
folders?

Here is the code relating to the cookie:

document.cookie='TheBasket='+document.cookie.subst ring(countbegin,countend)+'['+newItem+'|'+newPrice+'|'+newTaxable+'|'+newURL+' |'+newQuantity+'];
expires= '+today+'';

index=document.cookie.indexOf('TheBasket');
Thanks,

Carl.

[Jonas Raoni]

Carl Read wrote:

First I would like to state that I am not a JavaScript expert.
That's great, there are quite a lot of people here that think they're
experts, all programmers should be modest :)

Here is the code relating to the cookie:
document.cookie='TheBasket='+document.cookie.subst ring(countbegin,countend)+'['+newItem+'|'+newPrice+'|'+newTaxable+'|'+newURL+' |'+newQuantity+'];
expires= '+today+'';

index=document.cookie.indexOf('TheBasket');

You can set a "path" property for the cookie, which specifies the
initial directory that will have access to the cookie, take a look here
<URL:http://php.net/set_cookie> and you'll understand.

I suggest you to use a cookie library, it's quite annoying to write it
manually =/

The first google result that I got
<URL:http://techpatterns.com/downloads/javascript_cookies.php>

Good luck =]
--
Jonas Raoni Soares Silva
http://www.jsfromhell.com

[Carl Read]

Thanks,

After playing around is seemed that once the path was set to the root
directory the cookies worked across folders.

document.cookie='TheBasket='+document.cookie.subst ring(countbegin,countend)+'['+newItem+'|'+newPrice+'|'+newTaxable+'|'+newURL+' |'+newQuantity+'];
path=/; expires= '+today+'';

Thanks for the help.

"Jonas Raoni" <jo********@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:dt**********@emma.aioe.org...

Carl Read wrote:

First I would like to state that I am not a JavaScript expert.

That's great, there are quite a lot of people here that think they're
experts, all programmers should be modest :)

Here is the code relating to the cookie:
document.cookie='TheBasket='+document.cookie.subst ring(countbegin,countend)+'['+newItem+'|'+newPrice+'|'+newTaxable+'|'+newURL+' |'+newQuantity+'];
expires= '+today+'';

index=document.cookie.indexOf('TheBasket');

You can set a "path" property for the cookie, which specifies the initial
directory that will have access to the cookie, take a look here
<URL:http://php.net/set_cookie> and you'll understand.

I suggest you to use a cookie library, it's quite annoying to write it
manually =/

The first google result that I got
<URL:http://techpatterns.com/downloads/javascript_cookies.php>

Good luck =]
--
Jonas Raoni Soares Silva
http://www.jsfromhell.com