Run once popup window

[annettesteinr]

Hi,
Does anyone have experience with a 'runonce' popup window?
This window should appear the first time the customer comes to this page and force a 'Accept' before they can continue.
Regards, Annette

 

[Guest_imported]

i would use a cookie - the first time the user accesses the site the asp code checks for a particular cookie if it already exists then the popup would not be shown else it would be shown:

Code like:

<%
Dim strCookie, boolShowPopUp
boolShowPopUp = FALSE
If(Request.Cookies(&quot;ShowPopUp&quot.HasKeys) Then
boolShowPopUp = Request.Cookies(&quot;ShowPopUp&quot(&quot;VisitedBefore&quot
Else
Response.Cookies (&quot;ShowPopUp&quot(&quot;VisitedBefore&quot = &quot;TRUE&quot;
End If
%>

<%
If ( boolShowPopUp) Then
%>
<script>
window.open();
</script>
<%
End If
%>

Obviously this works only if user has cookies & javascript enabled and they use the same machine each time. An alternative would be to write a flag to a database if they have visited before the flag would be set to false else true and the popup would be shown.

Hope this helps a bit

 

[Jonax]

weller100 is right if you only want to display the popup once EVER!
If you want to disply it each time a user starts a session on your site, you might want to put some code in the session_start_event in global.asa... This is not a bug - it's an undocumented feature...
;-)

 

[annettesteinr]

Thank's for the help!
I wanted to avoid cookies, because my user should confoim a contract when opening my site. This should the user only do while the first login, not from other machines also.
I solved it by storing the login date. If login date is empty I show the message.