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, path, expires, 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" : "" );
}

function doesCookieExist(cookiename) {
	alert(getCookie(cookiename));
}