I really need help with this. I really don’t know how to make this work. I need to populate a drop down menu with a value passed through the browser if it’s passed.
so the browser URL will look like:
I need to capture the referer value from the browser store it into a cookie. If the cookie is set and then populate the drop down on the page with the cookie. If it’s not set then a list of sources should appear.
So I already have the code to grab the string and store it in a cookie but I’m not sure how to do the initialization of the drop down with the cookie value.
This is what I have…
<script>
//Get the referer string out of the URL
function getQuerystring(key, default_)
{
if (default_==null) default_="";
key = key.replace(/[\\[]/,"\\\\\\[").replace(/[\\]]/,"\\\\\\]");
var regex = new RegExp("[\\\\?&]"+key+"=([^&#]*)");
var qs = regex.exec(window.location.href);
if(qs == null)
return default_;
else
return qs[1];
}
//Set the cookie for 30 days
function SetCookie(cookieName,cookieValue,nDays) {
var today = new Date();
var expire = new Date();
if (nDays==null || nDays==0) nDays=1;
/* expire.setTime(today.getTime() + 3600000*24*nDays);*/
expire.setTime(today.getTime() + (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 30));
document.cookie = cookieName+"="+escape(cookieValue)
+ ";expires="+expire.toGMTString();
}
//Put the cookie on the user's computer
function putcookie()
{
var val = getQuerystring('referer');
if(val !=""){
if (document.cookie.length == 0)
{
SetCookie('referer', val, 1);
alert(val);
}
}
alert(document.cookie);
}
putcookie();
getCookie(name);
//If there is a cookie then get the cookie
function getCookie(c_name)
{
if (document.cookie.length>0)
{
c_start=document.cookie.indexOf(c_name + "=");
if (c_start!=-1)
{
c_start=c_start + c_name.length+1;
c_end=document.cookie.indexOf(";",c_start);
if (c_end==-1) c_end=document.cookie.length;
if(document.SECatJax.referer.length > 0)
{
document.SECatJax.referer.value = unescape(document.cookie.substring(c_start,c_end));
return false;
}
alert(document.cookie);
}
}
document.SECatJax.referer.value = 'Website';
}
The dropdown to appear if there isn’t a cookie is
<select name="source_code" size="1" id="source_code" class="select_2" style="display:none">
<option value="" selected="selected">--</option>
<option value="Direct Mail">Direct Mail</option>
<option value="High School Presentation">High School Presentation</option>
<option value="Search Engine">Internet Search</option>
<option value="Newspaper">Newspaper</option>
<option value="Poster">Poster</option>
<option value="Radio">Radio</option>
<option value="Referral">Referral</option>
<option value="TV">TV</option>
<option value="Yellow Pages">Yellow Pages</option>
</select>
The drop down to appear if there is a cookie is
<select name="source_code2" size="1" id="source_code2" class="select_2" style="display:none">
<option value="YellowPagesOnline" selected="selected">YellowPagesOnline</option>
</select>
Can someone help me with this please? Thanks.