Exit Code Help

JCM · #1 (**permalink**) 05-03-2004, 12:31 PM

I am looking for a script that can stop exit ads from popping during regular site navigation. I want the exit ads to pop when a user leaves the site, but not when they are navigating through out the site (they would be called pop ups or pop behinds at that point).

Please take a look at SearchTheWorld.com. If you look at the code you will see the script for the exit campaign:

<script language="javascript" src="http://z1.adserver.com/w/cp.x;rid=1;tid=4;ev=1;dt=1;ac=51;c=436;"></script>

You will also see an attribute in the body tag line:
onUnload="CPxPop1();"
I suppose this is to keep the exit from popping on entrance.

The solution I'm looking for is to have one script (and one body tag attribute) on the page that will keep the exit ad from popping during regular site navigation/browsing/surfing but will pop the exit ad when the page is closed.

Any direction would be greatly appreciated.

--JCM

lightning · #2 (**permalink**) 05-03-2004, 06:56 PM

The way I do it is to execute a script using the onUnload variable to execute a script having a conditional statement that checks to see that a Javascript variable's value, Exit=true. To initialize it, in the <body> tag, I say onLoad="Exit=true;". Then at every anchor link on my page I include the statement, onClick="Exit=false;".

This way, if the browser back button or some other exit from my site occurs, the onUnload javascript will execute because the variable Exit will equal true.

JCM · #3 (**permalink**) 05-03-2004, 07:16 PM

Tony,

I should have mentioned it.

I wanted a solution that didn't require adding a variable to every link on the page.

Thank you very much for responding.

--JCM

HardCoded · #4 (**permalink**) 05-05-2004, 11:54 PM

Good one. I don't suppose checking window.opener.closed in the pop-up would do what you want?

HardCoded · #5 (**permalink**) 05-06-2004, 12:13 AM

Actually, lightning's idea is pretty cool. You could do it with a single function onload instead of changing each link.

Code:

function changeLinks() //call this in body onload
{
  for(var i = 0; i <document.links.length; i++)
  {
    document.links[i].onclick = exitTrue;
  }
}

function exitTrue()
{
  Exit = true;
}

You're basically setting an event handler on all links.

JCM · #6 (**permalink**) 05-06-2004, 10:56 AM

HardCoded,

I have actually used Lightning's method many years ago on personal sites.

Since I'm starting a publisher's resource program, I need a simple implementation.

Yours looks interesting. I will play around with it to see if it works for my application.

Thanks,
--JCM

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