ASP Cookies

[Lee-yoshi]

Hi,This might sound like a stupid question (I'm new to ASP) but is it possible to add to an ASP Cookie through a link? (I.e. Someone clicks on a link, and by clicking that link something is added to the cookie)And if so, how?Many thanks.

[justsomeguy]

You can either use Javascript to set a cookie or ASP. If you wanted to use ASP then the page would need to refresh. If you used Javascript you could change the cookie without refreshing the page.

[Lee-yoshi]

Cool. I think i know how you mean about making the page refreshing using ASP, but just out of curiousity how would you do it with Javascript (If it's easier!)?Thanks.

[justsomeguy]

There are some Javascript functions for working with cookies here:http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_cookies.aspYou can attack an onclick handler to any element you want in order to execute some Javascript code when the user clicks on that element.

[Lee-yoshi]

Thanks justsomeguy, really appreciate the help.I attempted Javascript but i need some ASP related elements within my cookies so i've gone back to ASP again.Is it possible to have a variable property as a name for a cookie? My problem is that i need cookies to hold different numbers, numbers of which i will not know, and of which there may be more than one of (Hence storing another number in another cookie so it is easy to retrieve). The code below works great the first time, the second time there is a problem though, and it's most likely from the line where (NumItems) doesn't have " around it because it's the name of a variable.

<%dim NumItemsdim POIDPOID = request.querystring("poid")if( Response.Cookies.Count > 0 ) Then	NumItems = Request.Cookies("Amount")	NumItems = NumItems + 1	Response.Cookies("Amount") = NumItems	Response.Cookies(NumItems)("Item") = POIDelse	Response.Cookies("Amount") = 1End if%>...

Thanks for any help you can give me.

[justsomeguy]

If that doesn't save the cookie, then you might not be able to use a number as the name. You could add a prefix to the beginning of it.

[Lee-yoshi]

Adding a prefix worked a charm :)Cheers!