JavaScript - First Time Visitor Message

Hi all new guy on the block here,

I've got a website, and I want to add a welcoming message which hovers on a certain part of the page which only loads for the visitor for the first time they login, and won't again(presumably cookies used). And says something like "adjust your settings here.." I don't want it to be an external popup but something that loads on the page in a certain area, defined by me (PX-pixle reference)

I think i nutted something out in a bit of PHP, this is what i've got so far
PHP Code:
<?php
    if (firstLogin()){
        genSpecial(***load jquerie or css etc***);
    }
    else{
        genRegular();
    }
?>

can anyone help me figure out how to make this all work and load a box from jquerie or something similar? thanks
David

Hello,

Anyone know how to pop-up image for visitor that visiting for first time?

the pop-up image should be appears 30seconds then it will open new window tab with adress page that i have attached to image then after 30seconds the pop-up automatically close.

thx

I have merged two scripts to make a popup that comes up even if blocked, and is for first time visitor only (cookie). The problem is that the way I'm doing it, it might show one or more times to the visitor. I don't want that because it will be irritating and this is a high-priority client.

I'm posting the whole script because I think the problem is calling the popup before checking the cookie, but not sure how to rearrange things.

Also, I did search and found some good dhtml stuff but don't want to rewrite. This was supposed to be done last night so if I can fine tune this for now, I'll have time to rewrite something better (or at least play around with another script).

Also, the popup refuses to come up in IE - I have IE6, but I detest IE and their site doesn't even load in it so whatever. I tested in FFox3, Opera 10 and Safari and it seems to work but like I say because of the onclick - it will load at any click until the user goes to a different page. I added a refresh in there but it just made things worse - too much going on for the user at that point.

Thanks for any suggestions. I hope I've used the right tags for this. I've highlighted the stuff at the bottom that I think is where I need the most help.

Here is the code:

// added for popup -kk

var expDays = 100; // number of days the cookie should last

//var page = "only-popup-once.html";
//var windowprops = "width=300,height=200,location=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes";

var newwin = null;

function openwin() {
// window.location.reload();
var url = "/NEWSLETTER.html"

try {
if (newwin != null && typeof(newwin.location.href) != 'undefined') {
newwin.location.href = url;
} else {
newwin = open(url, "Subscribe", "height=390,width=545,screenX=0,left=0,screenY=0,top=0,channelmode=0,dependent=0,directories=0,fulls creen=0,location=0,menubar=0,resizable=yes,scrollbars=0,status=0,toolbar=0");
}

newwin.focus();
} catch (e) {
newwin = open(url, "Subscribe", "height=390,width=520,screenX=0,left=0,screenY=0,top=0,channelmode=0,dependent=0,directories=0,fulls creen=0,location=0,menubar=0,resizable=yes,scrollbars=0,status=0,toolbar=0");
newwin.focus()
}
}

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);
window.onclick = openwin;
// window.location.reload();
} else {
count++;
SetCookie('count', count, exp);
}
}

window.onload=checkCount;

// end popup -kk

Hi i have been looking everywhere and cant seem time to find anything matching,
what i need is a scheduled message on a website, basically stating days of the week and time and who is live on air. also people maybe on air at 17.30 so i have no idea on how to code this.

e.g

Monday 15th August 17:45 - On Air Now, Lee Mills

so it also refreshes every 1 minute

Thank you for your help.

First off, I'm working with tumblr.com which allows Javascript, but not PHP embedded in the HTML pages. It strips them out.

I want to be able to get the country code (us, ca, uk, etc.) when a visitor visits my webpage so I can provide links for their locale.

I'm having a very hard time finding correct information with examples to get this working. There was some .js libraries out there, but they don't work properly and say I'm in CA when I'm in US, like the jsapi from Google.

Is there a way to execute a .php script which would output the country code of the visitor and be able to read/capture this result within the Javascript?

Thanks in advance.

Edward