Catfish and cookies?

[Del321]

Love the Catfish advertisement system on sitepoint and would love to implement it myself. Since there hasn't been a Part III written yet, does anyone in the sp community know how to control it's display via cookies? (For instance, show it only once per X days.) Also, I'd love to have multiple catfish ads, but are called dependent on which page the viewer is on at the time (can I simply duplicate the #catfish css and call #catish2 for the next ad?)

Sorry if that doesn't quite make sense - a little tequila tonight with friends and trying to rewrite some html isn't working as planned.

[Del321]

Bump ^

Using catfish with cookies? Can anyone direct me on how to set-up a cookie for a one time catfish pop-up?

[ganny512]

Anyone manage to do this?

I'm building a site with this feature too

[jasper1106]

I would like to know this too.

I am trying to manipulate this cookie code into the destroycatfish function can anyone help?

<script>

//Post-it only once per browser session? (0=no, 1=yes)
//Specifying 0 will cause postit to display every time page is loaded
var once_per_browser=1

///No need to edit beyond here///

var ns4=document.layers
var ie4=document.all
var ns6=document.getElementById&&!document.all

if (ns4)
crossobj=document.layers.catfish
else if (ie4||ns6)
crossobj=ns6? document.getElementById("catfish") : document.all.catfish


function closeit(){
if (ie4||ns6)
crossobj.style.visibility="hidden"
else if (ns4)
crossobj.visibility="hide"
}

function get_cookie(Name) {
  var search = Name + "="
  var returnvalue = "";
  if (document.cookie.length > 0) {
    offset = document.cookie.indexOf(search)
    if (offset != -1) { // if cookie exists
      offset += search.length
      // set index of beginning of value
      end = document.cookie.indexOf(";", offset);
      // set index of end of cookie value
      if (end == -1)
         end = document.cookie.length;
      returnvalue=unescape(document.cookie.substring(offset, end))
      }
   }
  return returnvalue;
}

function showornot(){
if (get_cookie('postdisplay')==''){
showit()
document.cookie="postdisplay=yes"
}
}

function showit(){
if (ie4||ns6)
crossobj.style.visibility="visible"
else if (ns4)
crossobj.visibility="show"
}

if (once_per_browser)
showornot()
else
showit()

</script>

[jasper1106]

Ok guys,

I dug up this : http://ianpurton.com/how-to-create-j...ing-promotions - this guy has recoded the catfish script and included a show-once cookie feature.

I have successfully got this to work in firefox but not IE7. As I receive an ie has aborted the operation which I think is related to the DOM being asked to excute before it's ready. I increased the start time to 10000ms instead of 2000ms and firefox is coping well now. However the error message is still present on IE7 even with the timings up at 30000ms, I found this article: http://clientside.cnet.com/code-snip...ation-aborted/ but don't really understand it all 100% is there anything else I can do? Any sort of IE hack which will prepare the DOM before my site loads?

I spose it all depends on how fast your net connection is or the speed at which your site loads. Mine is pretty graphics heavy so does take 4-5 seconds even on a cable line so I guess this is what is causing the misloading?