Limit amount of clicks button can be pressed using cookies!

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Hey,

I want to limit the amount of clicks that can be pressed on a button using cookies. I know the cookies can just be cleared but in this case that will be fine.

So for example:

When I press BUTTON one time, nothing will happen, I press again nothing will happen, however when I press it the third time it will set a cookie and not allow the button to be pressed again until the cookie expires (5 min maybe?).

I have a functioning example below however I need to implement so it uses cookies.

Thank you in advance.

What I have tried:

<script type="text/javascript">
var ClickCount = 0;
function countClicks() {
	var clickLimit = 3; //Max number of clicks
	if(ClickCount>=clickLimit) {
		alert("You can only click this button "+clickLimit+" times.");
		return false;
	}
	else
	{
		ClickCount++;
		return true;
	}
}
</script>

<input type="button" value="Click me only three times!" name="clickThree" onclick="return countClicks();" />

Posted 30-Jun-18 16:46pm

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Updated 30-Jun-18 18:50pm

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Krunal Rohit · Answer 1 · 2018-06-30T18:51:00

Okay, that's quite simple with the code you've tried. You just need to set the flag in the cookie, and set a timeout to check if the cookie has expired or not.

You can find the methods that allows you to get and set cookies from here -
JavaScript Cookies[^]

JavaScript setTimeout() -
JavaScript Timing Events[^]

function countClicks() {
	var clickLimit = 3; //Max number of clicks
	if(ClickCount>=clickLimit) {
       // SET YOUR COOKIE HERE AND DISABLED THE BUTTON
		alert("You can only click this button "+clickLimit+" times.");
		return false;
	}
	else
	{
		ClickCount++;
		return true;
	}
}

// CHECK COOKIE
setTimeout(function(){
// CHECK IF THE COOKIE IS EXISTS AND ENABLE THE BUTTON
}, 1000);

I hope you get the idea.

KR