using setTimeout with cookies for use in survey

rrwirks · 01-29-2013, 11:45 AM

Hi
Im trying to implement an online survey (via surveymonkey) on my site, and i want users to get a chance to actually look at the site, before the popup containing the survey appears. But im having some diffulties getting it to work. i had it working with the delay before setting up cookies, but now its not responding to my setTime. I probably just overlooked something obvious, but im stuck and frustrated now. So, any help would be appriciated.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Popup Survey</title>
<script language="javascript">
var expDays = 60;

var page = "popup_link.html";
var windowprops = "width=300,height=200,location=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes";
function GetCookie (name) {
  var arg = name + "=";
  var alen = arg.length;
  var clen = document.cookie.length;
  var i = 0;
  while (i < clen) {
    var j = i + alen;
    if (document.cookie.substring(i, j) == arg)
    return getCookieVal (j);
    i = document.cookie.indexOf(" ", i) + 1;
    if (i == 0) break;
  }
  return null;
}

function SetCookie (name, value) {
  var argv = SetCookie.arguments;
  var argc = SetCookie.arguments.length;
  var expires = (argc > 2) ? argv[2] : null;
  var path = (argc > 3) ? argv[3] : null;
  var domain = (argc > 4) ? argv[4] : null;
  var secure = (argc > 5) ? argv[5] : false;
  document.cookie = name + "=" + escape (value) +
    ((expires == null) ? "" : ("; expires=" + expires.toGMTString())) +
    ((path == null) ? "" : ("; path=" + path)) +
    ((domain == null) ? "" : ("; domain=" + domain)) +
    ((secure == true) ? "; secure" : "");
}
function DeleteCookie (name) {
  var exp = new Date();
  exp.setTime (exp.getTime() - 1);
  var cval = GetCookie (name);
  document.cookie = name + "=" + cval + "; expires=" + exp.toGMTString();
}

var exp = new Date();
exp.setTime(exp.getTime() + (expDays*24*60*60*1000));

function amt(){
  var count = GetCookie('count')
  if(count == null) {
    SetCookie('count','1')
    return 1
  } else {
    var newcount = parseInt(count) + 1;
    DeleteCookie('count')
    SetCookie('count',newcount,exp)
    return count
  }
}

function getCookieVal(offset) {
  var endstr = document.cookie.indexOf (";", offset);
  if (endstr == -1)
  endstr = document.cookie.length;
  return unescape(document.cookie.substring(offset, endstr));
}
function checkCount() {
  var count = GetCookie('count');
  if (count == null) {
    count=1;
    SetCookie('count', count, exp);
    window.open(page, "", windowprops);
  } else {
    count++;
    SetCookie('count', count, exp);
  }
}

window.onload=checkCount;

</script> 
</head>

<body>
</body>
</html>

Philip M · 01-29-2013, 01:44 PM

Try

Code:

window.onload="setTimeout(checkCount,10000)";   // 10 seconds delay

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rrwirks · 01-30-2013, 08:07 AM

Yeah, i got it running by myself, but thanks for the help

Code:

function checkCount() {
  var count = GetCookie('count');
  if (count == null) {
    count=1;
    SetCookie('count', count, exp);
	setTimeout(function() {
		window.open(page, "", windowprops);
	}, 120000);