function cookieObject(name, expires, accessPath) {
var i, j
this.name = name
this.fieldSeparator = "#"
this.found = false
this.expires = expires
this.accessPath = accessPath
this.rawValue = ""
this.fields = new Array()
this.fieldnames = new Array() 
if (arguments.length > 3) { // field name(s) specified
  j = 0
  for (i = 3; i < arguments.length; i++) {
    this.fieldnames[j] = arguments[i]    
    j++
  }
  this.fields.length = this.fieldnames.length 
}
this.read = ucRead

this.write = ucWrite

this.remove = ucDelete
this.get = ucFieldGet
this.put = ucFieldPut
this.namepos = ucNamePos
this.read()
}


function ucFieldGet(fieldname) {
var i = this.namepos(fieldname)
if (i >=0) {
  return this.fields[i]
} else {
  return "BadFieldName!"
}
}

function ucFieldPut (fieldname, fieldval) {
var i = this.namepos(fieldname)
if (i >=0) {
  this.fields[i] = fieldval
  return true
} else {
  return false
}
}

function ucNamePos(fieldname) {
var i 
for (i = 0; i < this.fieldnames.length; i++) {
  if (fieldname == this.fieldnames[i]) {
    return i
  }
}
return -1
}


function ucWrite() {      
  var cookietext = this.name + "=" 

// concatenate array elements into cookie string

// Special case - single-field cookie, so write without # terminator
if (this.fields.length == 1) {
  cookietext += escape(this.fields[0])
  } else { // multi-field cookie
    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

// Special case - single-field cookies written by other functions,
// so without a '#' terminator

if (this.rawValue.substr(sl-1, 1) != this.fieldSeparator) {
  this.fields[0] = unescape(this.rawValue)
  } else { // separate fields

  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()
}



/*
*********** IT'S OK TO REMOVE THE CODE BELOW HERE IF YOUR PAGE 
DOESN'T USE cookieList() OBJECTS OR THE findCookieObject() FUNCTION.
*/




function findCookieObject(cName, cObjArray) {
var cpointer = null, i
for (i in cObjArray) {
  if (cName == cObjArray[i].name) {
    cpointer = cObjArray[i]
  }
}
return cpointer
}


function cookieList() {
/* 
This constructor function creates a cookieObject object (see below) 
for each cookie in document.cookie,
and returns an array of pointers to the objects.

You can use it to load all the cookies available to a page, then walk through them.

Example usage:

cookList = new cookieList()
for (i in cookList) {
 document.write(cookList[i].name + " " + cookList[i].fields[0] + "
")
}

*/

var i = 0, rawstring, offset = 0, start, newname
cpointers = new Array()
rawstring = document.cookie
if (rawstring.length > 0) {
  do {
   start = rawstring.indexOf("=", offset)
   if (start != -1) { // another cookie found in string
     // get cookie string up to end of current cookie name
     newname = rawstring.substring(0, start) 
     if (offset > 0) { 
       // if not first cookie in string, remove previous cookie data from substring
       // subsequent cookie names have a space before them (just a little browser foible!)
       newname = newname.substring(newname.lastIndexOf(";")+2, start)
     }     
     cpointers[i] = new cookieObject(newname)
     offset = start + 1
     i++
   }
  } while (start != -1)
} // end rawstring.length > 0
return cpointers
} //end function