// set cookie
	function setCookie( name, value, expires, path, 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" : "" );
	}

	// read cookie
	function readCookie(name) {
		var nameEQ = name + "=";
		var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
		for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {
			var c = ca[i];
			while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);
			if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return unescape(c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length));
		}
		return null;
	}

	function noplus(name){
          return name.replace("+", " ");
        }