Constructor Cookie

Cookie constructor function.

• Syntax Cookie new Cookie(String name , [ Number age , [ String path , [ String domain , [ Boolean secure ]]]])
  
  Creates and returns a new Cookie object.
• Parameters

  String name

  A name for the cookie so you can retrieve it later.

  Number age (Optional)

  The lifetime of the cookie in seconds. Default value is 0 meaning the cookie expires when the browser is closed.

  String path (Optional)

  The path of the domain in which this cookie is available. Default value is the path from where the script file originates.

  String domain (Optional)

  The domain in which the cookie is available. Default value is the domain fro where the script file originates.

  Boolean secure (Optional)

  If true the cookie is only transmitted by HTTPS; otherwise it can also be transmitted by HTTP. Default value is false.

• Return value A new Cookie object
• Examples

  To simply create a cookie which can later be retrieved by the name of 'myCookie' with a lifetime of 1 week

  // 1 week is 7 days * 24 hours * 60 minutes * 60 seconds = 604800 seconds
  new Cookie('myCookie',604800);

  To create a new cookie which can be used by any file from the subdomain www.jslab.dk and the path /demo/

  new Cookie('myCookie',604800,'/demo/');

  To create a cookie which can be accessed by all files in all paths of all subdomains of the domain jslab.dk

  new Cookie('myCookie',604800,'/','jslab.dk');

• Resources See the Wikipedia entry on cookies at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie.
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  // ************************************************************************** // Copyright 2007 - 2009 Tavs Dokkedahl // Contact: http://www.jslab.dk/contact.php // // This file is part of the JSLab Standard Library (JSL) Program. // // JSL is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify // it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by // the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or // any later version. // // JSL is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, // but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of // MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the // GNU General Public License for more details. // // You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License // along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. // *************************************************************************** // Cookie object constructor function Cookie(name, age, path, domain, secure) { // Friendly name of cookie this.$name = name; // Lifetime in seconds. Default value is 0 this.$age = age ? age : 0; // Creation date this.$date = (new Date()).getTime(); // Default path is path from where document originated this.$path = path ? path : window.location.pathname.replace(/(\/)[^\/]*$/,'$1'); // Default domain is domain from where document originated this.$domain = domain ? domain : window.location.hostname; // Default is insecure (HTTP) this.$secure = secure ? secure : false; }