How do I set cookies to with frontpage?

[askjoe]

I have yahoo web hosting and use microsoft front page. How do I install cookies within the header? The coding text I'm finding is all CGI - yahoo webhosting does not support CGI - what are my options?

[OhLordy]

You could use javascript
Here's a little example from "Javascript in easy steps"

first page - this code stores the user's name and account number in a cookie with a life-span of 7 days

var useraccount = "Mike McGrath,000456";

var expiry = new Date();

expiry.setTime( expiry.getTime() + (7*24*60*60*1000) );

document.cookie = "cookiedata="+escape(useraccount)+";"+ "expires=" +expiry.toGMTString()+";";

second page - this code seeks the cookie set by first page then extracts the data value and writes to screen.

var username = "Guest", useracct = "0000";

if(document.cookie){
var cookiedata = unescape(document.cookie);
var userdata = cookiedata.split( "=" );
if( userdata[0] == "cookiedata"){
var data = userdata[1].split( "," );
username = data[0];
useracct = data[1]; }
}
document.write("Welcome " + username + "<br>");
document.write("Account number: " + useracct+ ".";

Hope this helps
good luck