AGE VERIFICATION scripts

CelestialPRO · Jun 25, 2008

What's up guys. I need help I designed this cigar site, but I need an AGE VERIFICATION scripts to put on my index page, so that if your 18 and over you could enter the site. If your not 18 it takes you to another website. Could anyone help?

something like this...

http://www.budweiser.com/

thanks,

PC-XT · Jul 1, 2008

It would be simplest to replace your main page with a form which called either a php script if you know how to do it with php, or a JavaScript. With PHP, someone couldn't turn it off. The form could redirect to either the main page or a "Sorry, you're not old enough" page.

It is simple to write a confirm dialog to just say "Click Ok if you are over 18, otherwise click Cancel", then redirect to the correct page:
location.href=(confirm("Click Ok if you are over 18, otherwise click Cancel")?"oldenough.php":"sorry.htm");
If someone turned off JavaScript, you could have <noscript> tags that included a link to click if you are over 18. For that matter, you could just have the link and forget the script.

If you instead put a confirm in the <head> section of the main page, someone could turn off JavaScript and see the page without being asked. You can get around this by including two versions in the age-sensitive part of the page, a child-safe one in <noscript> tags with a link that somehow bypasses javascript if over 18 if necessary, and the other generated by JavaScript. But that gets complicated.

If you want a script that asks for a date of birth, that is also more complicated, but I could probably make a function for it, in either PHP or JavaScript, if you want. The functions for the page you gave are at http://www.budweiser.com/linked/javascript/age_validation.js if you want to look at them.

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AGE VERIFICATION scripts

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