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Top 10 Custom JavaScript Functions Of All Time

By Dustin Diaz
2006-08-22


3, 2, & 1) getCookie(), setCookie(), deleteCookie()

I honestly don’t know what I would do without these guys. I hate the DOM implementations of setting cookies in JavaScript. In PHP it’s so easy, and it’s easy for one main reason, they work just like the functions below. All three of these functions were found to be public domain and free to use.

getCookie(), setCookie(), deleteCookie() open domain

function getCookie( name ) {

var start = document.cookie.indexOf( name + "=" );
var len = start + name.length + 1;
if ( ( !start ) && ( name != document.cookie.substring( 0, name.length ) ) ) {
return null;
}
if ( start == -1 ) return null;
var end = document.cookie.indexOf( ';', len );
if ( end == -1 ) end = document.cookie.length;
return unescape( document.cookie.substring( len, end ) );
}

function setCookie( name, value, expires, path, domain, secure ) {
var today = new Date();
today.setTime( today.getTime() );
if ( expires ) {
expires = expires * 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24;
}
var expires_date = new Date( today.getTime() + (expires) );
document.cookie = name+'='+escape( value ) +
( ( expires ) ? ';expires='+expires_date.toGMTString() : '' ) + //expires.toGMTString()
( ( path ) ? ';path=' + path : '' ) +
( ( domain ) ? ';domain=' + domain : '' ) +
( ( secure ) ? ';secure' : '' );
}

function deleteCookie( name, path, domain ) {
if ( getCookie( name ) ) document.cookie = name + '=' +
( ( path ) ? ';path=' + path : '') +
( ( domain ) ? ';domain=' + domain : '' ) +
';expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:01 GMT';
}


Tutorial Pages:
» Top 10 custom JavaScript functions of all time
» 10) addEvent()
» 9) addLoadEvent()
» 8) getElementsByClass()
» 7) cssQuery()
» 6) toggle()
» 5) insertAfter()
» 4) inArray()
» 3, 2, & 1) getCookie(), setCookie(), deleteCookie()
» Last but not least, a bonus function: The Prototype Dollar Function
» And so will they all…


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