geertw / cookieCuttr

CookieCuttr - A tailorable jQuery plugin to deal with the EU Cookie Law

CookieCuttr

A tailorable jQuery plugin to deal with the EU Cookie Law.

Dependencies

• jQuery
• jQuery.cookie

Useage

Add jquery.cookiecuttr.js, after jQuery and jQuery.cookie, and cookiecuttr.css to the head of your HTML document. Then call CookieCuttr on document ready.

$(document).ready(function () {
  $.cookieCuttr();
});

For any JavaScript you want to disable, you need to wrap the following if statement around it.

if (jQuery.cookie('cc_cookie_accept') == "cc_cookie_accept") {
  // insert the code you do not want to run UNTIL cookies are accepted here
}

Example with Google Analytics

if (jQuery.cookie('cc_cookie_accept') == "cc_cookie_accept") {
  var _gaq = _gaq || [];
  _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-X']);
  _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

  (function() {
    var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
    ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
    var s = document. getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
  })();
}

Alternatively, you can do the following until cookies are declined.

if (jQuery.cookie('cc_cookie_decline') == "cc_cookie_decline") {
  // do nothing
} else {
  var _gaq = _gaq || [];
  _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-X']);
  _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

  (function() {
    var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
    ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
    var s = document. getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
  })();
}

You can also do the following.

if( $.cookieAccepted() ) {
  // insert the code you do not want to run UNTIL cookies are accepted here
}

Read More About EU Cookie Law

• Is the EU's cookie law confusing you too?
• New EU cookie law (e-Privacy Directive)
• Cookies – Doing nothing isn't the right answer

Using WordPress?

A Wordpress version is available here.

Options

For options, see the WIKI.

Contributing to CookieCuttr

• Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn't been implemented or the bug hasn't been fixed yet
• Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn't requested it and/or contributed it
• Fork the project
• Start a feature/bugfix branch
• Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution
• Initiate a pull request

Credits

• weare2ndfloor for the plugin
• unsymbol for organising the implementation txt into a readme markdown file

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2012 Chris Wharton. See LICENSE.txt for further details.