Create Cookie on root of host with jquery

Question

I want to create cookie on root of my host. for example when i'm on www.mydomain.com/test and set cookie , it creates on the cookie on the root. i tried jquery cookie plugin and this function but it don't work:

function setCookie2(c_name, value, expiredays) {
$.cookie(c_name, value, {
    expires: 1,           //expires in 10 days

    path: '/'          //The value of the path attribute of the cookie 
    //(default: path of page that created the cookie).
});}

it still creates cookie on /test folder

Take a look at this topic: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1458724/how-to-set-unset-cookie-with-jquery. The comments include links to resources that you need. — , Aug 24 '13 at 09:19

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 24 '13 at 09:52

Don't ask me why, but I always encountered problems by managing cookies using any kind of plugin, so I asked myself why using a plugin when the native Javascript document.cookie is already something you can write straight away?

So, document.cookie is your friend, not only because you don't need any libraries for that, but even because it's more semantic than the jQuery counterpart.

In your example you might want to do something like this, to set the expiration in the next 10 days.

var expiration = new Date();
expiration.setDate(expiration.getDate() + 10);
expiration.toUTCString();
document.cookie = 'NAME=VALUE; expires='+expiration+'; path=/';

You can slap this in a function so you can call that multiple times, if you need to set up different cookies.

function setcookie(_name, _value, _days) {
    var expiration = new Date();
    expiration.setDate(expiration.getDate() + _days);
    expiration.toUTCString();
    document.cookie = _name+'='+_value+'; expires='+expiration+'; path=/';
}
setcookie('NAME', 'VALUE', 10);

Create Cookie on root of host with jquery

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