enabling a cookie with an onclick button?

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i need tofigure out how i can set a cookie to view a page after a user has submitted info, perhaps with an onclick button. is this done with javascript? i've never worked with cookies, how cani set this up? i don't want users to see this page as visible unless they have submitted their information for my opt in list and clicked the button to view. suggestions?

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PHP Code:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

cookie_name = "dataCookie";
var YouEntered;

function putCookie() {

if(document.cookie != document.cookie) 
{index = document.cookie.indexOf(cookie_name);}
else 
{ index = -1;}

if (index == -1)
{
YouEntered=document.cf.cfd.value;
document.cookie=cookie_name+"="+YouEntered+"; expires=Monday, 04-Apr-2010 5:00:00 GMT";
}

}
</SCRIPT>



<FORM NAME="cf">

<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="cfd" size="20">
<INPUT TYPE="button" Value="Set to Cookie" 
onClick="putCookie()">

</FORM>