jquery cookies code not working

Question

can't seem to get this code to work, its not throwing errors, but something just isnt right as its not saving the cookie.

Basically on click i need it to check if the cookie is active, if not it needs to add it. This is remove a popup on the website.

$('.close-reveal').on(click, function(){
        // if no cookie
        if (!$.cookie('alert')) {
            $('.subscribe-scroller').hide();
            // set the cookie for 24 hours
            var date = new Date();
            date.setTime(date.getTime() + 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000); 
            $.cookie('alert', true, { expires: date });
        }

});

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2824021/create-a-cookie-if-and-only-if-it-doesnt-already-exist — Adrianopolis, May 12 '17 at 21:52
Thanks Andrianopolis, jquery is not my strength, so that link you sent makes no sense to me :( — Pieces of Eight, May 12 '17 at 21:53
Is this the lib you're using? https://github.com/carhartl/jquery-cookie I haven't tested this, but I suspect your problem is the attempt to set a boolean value to a cookie. If I'm right about that being the lib, read this bit about JSON in the docs: https://github.com/carhartl/jquery-cookie#json — JAAulde, May 12 '17 at 21:53
None of this makes sense to me :( how can i apply this to my code above? — Pieces of Eight, May 12 '17 at 22:01
Try adding this line of code, before all the code you showed us here: `$.cookie.json = true;` — JAAulde, May 12 '17 at 22:02
Unless you really need specifically cookies, you should use localstorage instead. It's much easier to work with. — JJJ, May 12 '17 at 22:02

Tom el Safadi · Answer 1 · 2017-05-12T22:50:07.107

You need the quotes around the true.

Try this:

$('.close-reveal').on(click, function(){
        // if no cookie
        if (!$.cookie('alert')) {
            $('.subscribe-scroller').hide();

            $.cookie('alert', 'true', { expires: 1 });
        }

});

Cookies are only string-valued. If you want to treat the value as a boolean, you need to parse it back to a boolean when the cookie value is read back out.

Secondly why making the effort of calculating one day if you can simply enter 1 for one day?

jquery cookies code not working

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