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function setSlideboxCookie (name, value, expires) {
    // 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;
    } else {
        expires = 30 * 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24;
    }
    var expires_date = new Date( today.getTime() + (expires) );

    document.cookie = name + "=" +escape(value) + ";expires=" + expires_date.toGMTString();

}

function getSlideboxCookie (check_name) {
    // first we'll split this cookie up into name/value pairs
    // note: document.cookie only returns name=value, not the other components
    var a_all_cookies = document.cookie.split( ';' );
    var a_temp_cookie = '';
    var cookie_name = '';
    var cookie_value = '';
    var b_cookie_found = false; // set boolean t/f default f

    for ( i = 0; i < a_all_cookies.length; i++ )
    {
        // now we'll split apart each name=value pair
        a_temp_cookie = a_all_cookies[i].split( '=' );


        // and trim left/right whitespace while we're at it
        cookie_name = a_temp_cookie[0].replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, '');

        // if the extracted name matches passed check_name
        if ( cookie_name == check_name )
        {
            b_cookie_found = true;
            // we need to handle case where cookie has no value but exists (no = sign, that is):
            if ( a_temp_cookie.length > 1 )
            {
                cookie_value = unescape( a_temp_cookie[1].replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, '') );
                if (cookie_value == "false") {
                    cookie_value = false;
                }
            }
            // note that in cases where cookie is initialized but no value, null is returned
            return cookie_value;
            break;
        }
        a_temp_cookie = null;
        cookie_name = '';
    }
    if ( !b_cookie_found )
    {
        return null;
    }
}

function deleteSlideboxCookie (name) {
    if (getSlideboxCookie(name)) {
        document.cookie += name + "=;expires=" + date_exprire.toGMTString();
    }
}