who wants to eat Cookies??

[frozentree]

i am very confuse at this tutorial lesson bout cookies.. i try creating one but it dint work out...i would like to understand the most simple cookies first then only take a look at w3school example of cookies. i try to understand this

<script language="JavaScript"><!--function set_it(){ var thename= window.prompt("What is your name?",""); var the_text="name="+thename+"&"; var toexpire= new Date("March 15, 2008"); var expdate="expires="+toexpire.toGMTString(); the_text+=expdate;  var newtext=escape(the_text); document.cookie=newtext;}function read_it(){ if (document.cookie) {  var mycookie=document.cookie;  var fixed_cookie= unescape(mycookie);  var thepairs= fixed_cookie.split("&");  var pair1= thepairs[0];  var pair2= thepairs[1];  var namevalue1= pair1.split("="); window.alert("Welcome, "+namevalue[1]+"!"); } else { set_it(); }}read_it();//--></SCRIPT>

this din work..nothing happen when i try 2 examine it... wat is wrong? cant understand cookies at all... would somebody lend me a hand here? thanks

[jesh]

You are SO close. This:

  var namevalue1= pair1.split("=");  window.alert("Welcome, "+namevalue[1]+"!");

Should be:

  var namevalue1= pair1.split("=");  window.alert("Welcome, "+namevalue1[1]+"!");

You set a variable named "namevalue1", so, when you try to run the alert, you need to reference "namevalue1" rather than "namevalue".

[frozentree]

Thanks!! it works.