function setCookie(name, value, expiredays)
{
  var todayDate = new Date();
  todayDate.setDate(todayDate.getDate() + expiredays);
  document.cookie = name + '=' + escape(value) + '; path=/; expires=' + todayDate.toGMTString() + ';'
}

function setCookieSimple(name, value)
{
  document.cookie = name + '=' + escape(value) + '; path=/; '
}

function getCookie(name)
{
  var nameOfCookie = name + "=";
  var x = 0;
  while (x <= document.cookie.length)
  {
    var y = (x+nameOfCookie.length);
    if (document.cookie.substring(x, y) == nameOfCookie)
    {
      if ((endOfCookie=document.cookie.indexOf(";", y)) == -1)
        endOfCookie = document.cookie.length;
      return unescape( document.cookie.substring(y, endOfCookie));
    }

    x = document.cookie.indexOf(" ", x) + 1;
    if (x == 0)
      break;
  }
  return "";
}