// utility function to retrieve an expiration data in proper format; function getExpDate(days, hours, minutes) { var expDate = new Date(); if(typeof(days) == "number" && typeof(hours) == "number" && typeof(hours) == "number") { expDate.setDate(expDate.getDate() + parseInt(days)); expDate.setHours(expDate.getHours() + parseInt(hours)); expDate.setMinutes(expDate.getMinutes() + parseInt(minutes)); return expDate.toGMTString(); } }
//utility function called by getCookie() function getCookieVal(offset) { var endstr = document.cookie.indexOf(";", offset); if(endstr == -1) { endstr = document.cookie.length; } return unescape(document.cookie.substring(offset, endstr)); }
// primary function to retrieve cookie by name function getCookie(name) { var arg = name + "="; var alen = arg.length; var clen = document.cookie.length; var i = 0; while(i < clen) { var j = i + alen; if (document.cookie.substring(i, j) == arg)