function setCookie (name, value, expires, path, domain, secure) {
    // set time, it's in milliseconds
    var today = new Date();
    today.setTime( today.getTime() );

    if ( expires )
    {
	expires = expires * 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24;
    }
    var expires_date = new Date( today.getTime() + (expires) );

    document.cookie = name + "=" +escape( value ) +
    ( ( expires ) ? ";expires=" + expires_date.toGMTString() : "" ) +
    ( ( path ) ? ";path=" + path : "" ) +
    ( ( domain ) ? ";domain=" + domain : "" ) +
    ( ( secure ) ? ";secure" : "" );
}
function getCookie(name) {
	var cookie = " " + document.cookie;
	var search = " " + name + "=";
	var setStr = null;
	var offset = 0;
	var end = 0;
	if (cookie.length > 0) {
		offset = cookie.indexOf(search);
		if (offset != -1) {
			offset += search.length;
			end = cookie.indexOf(";", offset)
			if (end == -1) {
				end = cookie.length;
			}
			setStr = unescape(cookie.substring(offset, end));
		}
	}
	return(setStr);
}