/* DISCLAIMER: THESE JAVASCRIPT FUNCTIONS ARE SUPPLIED 'AS IS', WITH NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. YOU USE THEM AT YOUR OWN RISK. NEITHER PAUL STEPHENS NOR PC PLUS MAGAZINE ACCEPTS ANY LIABILITY FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE RESULTING FROM THEIR USE, HOWEVER CAUSED. Paul Stephens' NetScape-based cookie-handling object library http://web.ukonline.co.uk/paul.stephens/index.htm TO USE THIS LIBRARY, INSERT ITS CONTENTS IN THE SECTION OF YOUR WEB PAGE SOURCE, BEFORE ANY OTHER JAVASCRIPT ROUTINES. Feel free to use this code, but please leave this comment block in. */ function cookieObject(name, expires, accessPath) { this.name = name this.fieldSeparator = "#" this.found = false this.expires = expires this.accessPath = accessPath this.rawValue = "" this.fields = new Array() this.read = ucRead this.write = ucWrite this.remove = ucDelete this.read() } function ucWrite() { var cookietext = this.name + "=" // concatenate array elements into cookie string for (i = 0; i < this.fields.length; i++) { cookietext += escape(this.fields[i]) + this.fieldSeparator } // Set expiry parameter, if specified if (this.expires != null) { if (typeof(this.expires) == "number") { // Expiry period in days specified var today=new Date() var expiredate = new Date() expiredate.setTime(today.getTime() + 1000*60*60*24*this.expires) cookietext += "; expires=" + expiredate.toGMTString() } else { // assume it's a date object cookietext += "; expires=" + this.expires.toGMTString() } // end of typeof(this.expires) if } // end of this.expires != null if // add path, if specified if (this.accessPath != null) { cookietext += "; PATH="+this.accessPath } // write cookie // alert("writing "+cookietext) document.cookie = cookietext return null } function ucRead() { var search = this.name + "=" var CookieString = document.cookie this.rawValue = null this.found = false if (CookieString.length > 0) { offset = CookieString.indexOf(search) if (offset != -1) { offset += search.length end = CookieString.indexOf(";", offset) if (end == -1) { // cookie is last item in the string, so no terminator end = CookieString.length } this.rawValue = CookieString.substring(offset, end) this.found = true } } if (this.rawValue != null) { // unpack into fields var sl = this.rawValue.length var startidx = 0 var endidx = 0 var i = 0 do { endidx = this.rawValue.indexOf(this.fieldSeparator, startidx) if (endidx !=-1) { this.fields[i] = unescape(this.rawValue.substring(startidx, endidx)) i++ startidx = endidx + 1} } while (endidx !=-1 & endidx != (this.rawValue.length -1)); } // end of unpack into fields if block return this.found } // end of function function ucDelete() { this.expires = -10 this.write() return this.read() }