Automatic trigger of Reminder in PHP

[helplakshmi]

Hello Everyone,

I am banging my head since morning. please help me.. I am not so good at php..i am in learning phase...

My requirement was to generate a popup once you immediately login. windows.alert(' please call') then the popup should come for every 2 hrs.

Even though you navigate to different pages on the site..This should still come..

I have started something like this:--
1. Calling this script on everypage.

<script type="text/javascript">alert_settimer();</script><script type="text/javascript">
alert_settimer();
</script>

And the code in the script is

function alert_settimer(){    time_stop=2*60*60*1000;    if(time_stop > 0) {         timer= setTimeout("alert_settimer(),window.focus();window.alert('Please call Originator');",time_stop )    }}function alert_settimer(){
    time_stop=2*60*60*1000;
    if(time_stop > 0) {
         timer= setTimeout("alert_settimer(),window.focus();window.alert('Please call Originator');",time_stop )
    }
}

It is able to give me a popup for every 2 hrs. But whenever the user reloads the page after 1 hr. The function is called again and the count starts from 0hrs again. OR for example if 20 mins already passed then if i am going to a new page then the function is called again and so the timer starts again.
I am not getting any idea how to restrict it calling every time. OR send that 1 hr again to the function so that it starts from there. I tried some thing like setting the value in a session variable and then starting the counter from that value. But i am not successful. Please help me in solving this...

[Dormilich]

what about a cookie?

[helplakshmi]

ok..do u mean to set a cookie for the timer? can we do it from javascript? if so can you send a sample code or link where i can refer? so many questions:-)

[Dormilich]

cookies are set via document.cookie, more on google

[helplakshmi]

Hey that's useful clue...A good food for me to think...The problem is solved..