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Greeting visitors on website

Hello,
I want to greet visitors on the homepage of my website. welcoming new and identify existing customers. We have separate page for user registration.
How shall I go about?

ljubiccica

You can identify users that already visited your site with cookies...

Once they registrate you make a cookie with their name and once they come back you look tof this cookie...

Than somewhere at the top of your page you write...

//for those who don't have a cookie
Hello and welcome! If you are registered user, you can sign in here...
If not registered, you can register here...

//those with cookies
Wellcome again, Andrew Long. ....

You need a code for that or just the idea???

Ljubiccica

UnexplainedWays

Or you do a double, Ip and cookie.

Some people dont allow cookies and some people have changing Ip's

LeeHenry

Have you written the user registration page yet?

soniya

ASKER

Yes the User registration form is done.
Can you help me with the code ?

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Michel Plungjan

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Michel Plungjan

Then in user reg page have

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="cookie.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">
function saveName(theForm) {
setCookie('name','theForm.firstName.value+' '+theForm.lastName.value,expiryDate,'/')
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form onSubmit="saveName(this)">
First name: <input type="text" name="firstName" value="">
Last name: <input type="text" name="lastName" value="">
.
.
.
</form>

and in welcome have

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="cookie.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">
function getName() {
var name="getCookie('name')
return (name)?name:'Stranger';
}
</script>
</head>
<body>

<script>
document.write('Hello '+getName())
</script>