The Cookie Condition

The Cookie Condition lets you display a box on occassions where you know that the users might have a Cookie. You can take advantage of the Cookie's name and its value with extreme flexibility.

Cookie Display Conditions

Options

In the table below you can see which options are available to setup the Cookie Condition.

Name	Description
Cookie Name	This is the cookie name you want to check against with.
Match	With this option you can select the "Exists" option to see if the Cookie with the Name you typed before, exists. All the other options are related to the value of the Cookie. You can take advantage of the comparisons below to compare the cookie's content to what you want it compared with. Exists Does not exists Is empty Is not empty Equals Does not equal Contains Does not contain Starts with Does not start with Ends with Does not end with
Cookie Content	This option is visible only when you have selected in the "Match" option something other than: Exists Does not exist Is empty Is not empty Whatever you type here will be compared to the Cookie's value according to the Match Type.

Name

Description

Cookie Name

This is the cookie name you want to check against with.

Match

With this option you can select the "Exists" option to see if the Cookie with the Name you typed before, exists.

All the other options are related to the value of the Cookie. You can take advantage of the comparisons below to compare the cookie's content to what you want it compared with.

Exists
Does not exists
Is empty
Is not empty
Equals
Does not equal
Contains
Does not contain
Starts with
Does not start with
Ends with
Does not end with

Cookie Content

This option is visible only when you have selected in the "Match" option something other than:

Exists
Does not exist
Is empty
Is not empty

Whatever you type here will be compared to the Cookie's value according to the Match Type.

Use Case

If you are familiar with all the cookies that your Joomla! Website might be sending to your visitors, you can fine tune the box to be displayed exactly when a certain cookie is present and contains a certain value.