var days2keepCookie = 365;
var cookieName = "mynikehomepage";


function deleteCookie( name, path, domain, secure ) {
	var today = new Date();
	var expires = "Thu, 1 Aug 2000 20:00:00 UTC";
	if (days2keepCookie==null || days2keepCookie==0) days2keepCookie=1;
	var curCookie = name + "=" + "" +
		((expires) ? "; expires=" + expires : "") +
		((path) ? "; path=" + path : "");
		((domain) ? "; domain=" + domain : "") +
		((secure) ? "; secure" : "");
	    document.cookie = curCookie;
}

function setCookie( name, value, path, domain, secure ) {
	var today = new Date();
	var expires = new Date();
	if (days2keepCookie==null || days2keepCookie==0) days2keepCookie=1;
	expires.setTime( today.getTime() + 3600000 * 24 * days2keepCookie);
	var curCookie = name + "=" + escape(value) +
		((expires) ? "; expires=" + expires.toGMTString() : "") +
		((path) ? "; path=" + path : "") +
		((domain) ? "; domain=" + domain : "") +
		((secure) ? "; secure" : "");
	document.cookie = curCookie;
}



function getCookie (name) {
	var dc = document.cookie;
	var cname = name + "=";
	var clen = dc.length;
	var cbegin = 0;
	
	while (cbegin < clen) {
		var vbegin = cbegin + cname.length;
		
		if (dc.substring(cbegin, vbegin) == cname) {
			var vend = dc.indexOf (";", vbegin);
			if (vend == -1) vend = clen;
			return unescape(dc.substring(vbegin, vend));
		}
		
		cbegin = dc.indexOf(" ", cbegin) + 1;
		
		if (cbegin== 0) break;
	}
	return null;
}