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Set cookie and redirect

I need a very simple cookie (I hope) for a site.

I want visitors to be redirected from the opening page of the website if they have been on that page before. The opening page is a flash movie, and I don't want the visitors to see it every time they enter the site. So when the visitor comes a second time to the site through the opening page, they are automatically redirected to the next page.

Makes sense? :-)
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klykken

ahosang

These are your cookie functions:
function setCookie(name, value, expires, path, domain, secure) {
var curCookie = name + "=" + escape(value) +
((expires) ? "; expires=" + expires.toGMTString() : "") +
((path) ? "; path=" + path : "") +
((domain) ? "; domain=" + domain : "") +
((secure) ? "; secure" : "");
document.cookie = curCookie;
}
function getCookie(name) {
var dc = document.cookie;
var prefix = name + "=";
var begin = dc.indexOf("; " + prefix);
if (begin == -1) {
begin = dc.indexOf(prefix);
if (begin != 0) return null;
} else {begin += 2;}
var end = document.cookie.indexOf(";", begin);
if (end == -1) {end = dc.length;}
return unescape(dc.substring(begin + prefix.length, end));
}

So in the script section in head, write :
now=new Date();
now.setFullYear(now.getFullYear()+1);
setCookie("beenBefore", "yes",now);
if (getCookie("beenBefore")) {
//redirection code
}

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