function getCookie(c_name)
            {
            if (document.cookie.length>0)
              {
              c_start=document.cookie.indexOf(c_name + "=");
              if (c_start!=-1)
                {
                c_start=c_start + c_name.length+1;
                c_end=document.cookie.indexOf(";",c_start);
                if (c_end==-1) c_end=document.cookie.length;
                return unescape(document.cookie.substring(c_start,c_end));
                }
              }
            return "";
            }

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

                /*
                if the expires variable is set, make the correct
                expires time, the current script below will set
                it for x number of days, to make it for hours,
                delete * 24, for minutes, delete * 60 * 24
                */
                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" : "" );
                
        }