Expire Cookie

[maximus83]

Hi,

I'm a complete novice when it comes to PHP and I've inherited tons of PHP from the last web designer.

There is a dialog box that pops every time someone visits the site to select their region.

I need to change the code below so that the cookie doesn't expire unless deleted by the user. So the users preference is kept in the browser unless they delete cookies.

At the moment everytime someone visits the site they have to choose their region even if they previously visited the site a short time ago.

function createCookie(country,value,days) {
	if (days) {
		var date = new Date();
		date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
		var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
	}
	else var expires = "";
	document.cookie = country+"="+value+expires+"; path=/; domain=xxxxxxxxxx.com;";

Any help much appreciated.

[bradgrafelman]

Thread moved to ClientSide Technologies forum; what you posted isn't PHP - it's Javascript.

[johanafm]

What's the supposed values for the variables country and value? Looking at the code, I'd guess that you'd want the cookie name to be country and the value to be an actual country, as in country=uk or country=germany, whatever form you might be using.
But, if you assign "germany" to the variable country, you'd have something like germany=value, whatever value might then be. Still, that way seems to make little sense, since you'd then be creating one cookie for each differenty country.
So you might want to have

document.cookie='country='+value...;