Best Way to Display Cookie Value? - Sitefinity - Front- & Back-End Development

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Posted by Community Admin on 21-Nov-2011 00:00

When a visitor hits my site for the first time a cookie is set based on the referral source (Google, Yahoo, etc.) and based on the source a unique toll free phone number is set to a cookie. What is the best way to display that cookie phone number value? It will be displayed in mulitple places on the web site include content paragraphs, custom controls, etc.

Posted by Community Admin on 24-Nov-2011 00:00

Hi Matt,

How do you want to display the cookie - via client code or via server code? Here is a method for reading a cookie with a specific name:

function readCookie(name)

var nameEQ = name + "=";

var ca = document.cookie.split(';');

for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++)

var c = ca[i];

while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);

if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);

return null;

While with server code you can read cookies using Request.Cookies, which will return a CookieCollection that you can parse.

Kind regards,
Lubomir Velkov
the Telerik team

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Posted by Community Admin on 25-Nov-2011 00:00

Thanks for the response. This will save me a bunch of time.

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