/* This code is Copyright (c) 1996 Nick Heinle and Athenia Associates, 
* all rights reserved. In order to receive the right to license this 
* code for use on your site the original code must be copied from the
* Web site webreference.com/javascript/. License is granted to user to 
* reuse this code on their own Web site if and only if this entire copyright
* notice is included. Code written by Nick Heinle of webreference.com.
*/

function getCookie (name)
{
	var dcookie = document.cookie; 
	var cname = name + "=";
	var clen = dcookie.length;
	var cbegin = 0;

	while (cbegin < clen)
	{
		var vbegin = cbegin + cname.length;
		if (dcookie.substring(cbegin, vbegin) == cname)
		{ 
			vend = dcookie.indexOf (";", vbegin);
			if (vend == -1)
			{
				vend = clen;
			}

			return unescape(dcookie.substring(vbegin, vend));
		}

		cbegin = dcookie.indexOf(" ", cbegin) + 1;
		if (cbegin == 0)
		{
			break;
		}
	}

	return null;
}

function setCookie (name, value, expires)
{
	var sec = 1000 * 60 * 60;
	var d = new Date()
	d.setTime(d.getTime() + (eval(sec * expires)));
	var months = ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec" ];
	var mon = months[d.getMonth()];
	var day = d.getDate();
	var year = d.getFullYear();
	//var expdate = months[d.getMonth()] + ", " + d.getDate() + " " + d.getFullYear() + " 12:24:56 GMT";
	var expdate = mon + ", " + day + " " + year + " 12:34:56 GMT";

	if (!expires)
	{
		expires = new Date();
	}

	document.cookie = name + "=" + escape (value) + 
		"; expires=" + expdate +  "; path=/";
}

function set_long_Cookie (name, value, expires)
{

	if (!expires)
	{
		expires = new Date();
	}

	document.cookie = name + "=" + escape (value) + 
		"; expires=" + expires +  "; path=/";
}

function setSessionCookie (name, value)
{

	document.cookie = name + "=" + escape (value) + 
		"; expires= ; path=/";
}

function delCookie (name)
{
	var expireNow = new Date();
	document.cookie = name + "=" +
		"; expires=Thu, 01-Jan-70 00:00:01 GMT" +  "; path=/";
}