LightAlert plug-in as a one-time splash screen?

[d0ugparker]

Can the plug-in

LightAlert

be plugged in and can I then use it to manually cause a message to splash on the screen only on the first occurrence of the main page's being displayed? 2nd and subsequent returns to the main screen would not fire off the manually generated message.

If the user closes their browser window and returns later, however, they would receive the splash message on the main page's display the first time, but not the 2nd and subsequent times.

A simple counter, a test for zero, the counter gets increased every time the main page is refreshed, but the message is only generated when the counter is zero.

What's the php line to fire off a manual message?

The goal is to have every user receive a "clear your browser cache" every time they first land on the site.

Simple Popup

is in the plug in list, but it's only 1.3.9 rated. Too bad. :-(

Is there some other plug in I'm missing that would do what I want?

Thanks.

[lat9]

It sounds more like you'd want to stash a cookie in the customer's browser to indicate that the popup has been previously displayed.

[d0ugparker]

Even better, yes.

This could easily be a plug-in or a wish-list item.