One Cookie file or Two Cookie files ????

hi, I am writing a shopping cart program. I have a single cookie file which stores (1) items selected by the user during their browsing session and also (2) items "saved" by the user, so user can load it up when they do the shopping next time.

I want (1) to expire when the user exit the browser, and (2) to last permanently.

How can I achieve this with a single cookie file, or do I need two separate cookie files ? if so, how can I create two cookie files ?

any help much appreciated.

graham

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>I want (1) to expire when the user exit the browser, and (2) to last permanently.[/quote]

You can do this in both ways. However you can do it best with setting 2 cookies. One with no expiration date so it will end at the browser session, and two with expiration date 5 years from now or something.


The other solution would be to have the one cookie while a person is visiting your site. As this person leaves remove the temporary data from the cookie and only keep the permanent data.

I would suggest setting 2 cookies by:

document.cookie = "name=value; expires=someTime;";

where someTime is build like this:

Wdy, DD-Mon-YY HH:MM:SS GMT e.g. Mon 14-Aug-00 12:00:00 GMT.



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Good luck,
Bas

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