Date and Time of Last Visit

Patrick Clinger Jul 31, 2006

Display the date and time of the users last visit. Easy to implement. (Reload the page to see it work.)

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Simply click inside the window below, use your cursor to highlight the script, and copy [Control]+C the script into a new file in your text editor (such as Note Pad) and save [Control+S]. The script is yours!!!

/* This script and many more are available free online at
The JavaScript Source :: http://www.javascriptsource.com
Created by: Patrick Clinger :: http://www.freewebs.com/google_game/ */

function lastVisit() {
  var lastvisit=new Object()
  lastvisit.firstvisitmsg="This is your first visit to this page. Welcome!" //Change first visit message here
  lastvisit.subsequentvisitmsg="Welcome back visitor! Your last visit was on <b>[displaydate]</b>" // Change subsequent visit message here

lastvisit.getCookie=function(Name) { // get cookie value
    var re=new RegExp(Name+"=[^;]+", "i"); // construct RE to search for target name/value pair
    if (document.cookie.match(re)) // if cookie found
      return document.cookie.match(re)[0].split("=")[1] // return its value
      return ""
  }
  lastvisit.setCookie=function(name, value, days) { // set cookie value
    var expireDate = new Date()
    //set "expstring" to either future or past date, to set or delete cookie, respectively
    var expstring=expireDate.setDate(expireDate.getDate()+parseInt(days))
    document.cookie = name+"="+value+"; expires="+expireDate.toGMTString()+"; path=/";
  }

lastvisit.showmessage=function() {
  if (lastvisit.getCookie("visitcounter")=="") { // if first visit
    lastvisit.setCookie("visitcounter", 2, 730) // set "visitcounter" to 2 and for 730 days (2 years)
    document.write(lastvisit.firstvisitmsg)
  } else
    document.write(lastvisit.subsequentvisitmsg.replace("\[displaydate\]", new Date().toLocaleString()))
  }
  lastvisit.showmessage()
}

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