// cookies
function createCookie(name,value,days) {
	if (days) {
		var date = new Date();
		date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
		var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
	}
	else var expires = "";
	document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";
}
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 c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length).split('&');
	}
	return null;
}
function eraseCookie(name) {
	createCookie(name,"",-1);
}

// new cookie functions

function CNN_getCookies() {
	var hash = new Array;
	if ( document.cookie ) {
		var cookies = document.cookie.split( '; ' );
		for ( var i = 0; i < cookies.length; i++ ) {
			var namevaluePairs = cookies[i].split( '=' );
			hash[namevaluePairs[0]] = unescape( namevaluePairs[1] ) || null;
		}
	}
	return hash;
}

function CNN_parseCookieData( cookieDataString ) {
	var cookieValues = new Object();
	var separatePairs = cookieDataString.split( '&' );
	for ( var i = 0; i < separatePairs.length; i++  ) {
		var separateValues = separatePairs[i].split( ':' );
		cookieValues[separateValues[0]] = separateValues[1] || null;
	}
	return cookieValues;
}

function CNN_setCookie( name, value, hours, path, domain, secure ) {
		var numHours = 0;

		if ( hours) {
			if ( (typeof(hours) == 'string') && Date.parse(hours) ) { // already a Date string
				numHours = hours;
			} else if ( typeof(hours) == 'number' ) { // calculate Date from number of hours
				numHours = ( new Date((new Date()).getTime() + hours*3600000) ).toGMTString();
			}
		}

		document.cookie = name + '=' + escape(value) + ((numHours)?(';expires=' + numHours):'') + ((path)?';path=' + path:'') + ((domain)?';domain=' + domain:'') + ((secure && (secure == true))?'; secure':''); // Set the cookie, adding any parameters that were specified.

}


function CNN_killCookie( name, path, domain ) {
	var allCookies = CNN_getCookies();

	var theValue = allCookies[ name ] || null; // We need the value to kill the cookie
	if ( theValue ) {
		document.cookie = name + '=' + theValue + '; expires=Fri, 13-Apr-1970 00:00:00 GMT' + ((path)?';path=' + path:'') + ((domain)?';domain=' + domain:''); // set an already-expired cookie
	}
}

var allCookies = CNN_getCookies();


var CNN_FONT_COOKIE_NAME="cnnFont";var CNN_FONT_COOKIE=readCookie(CNN_FONT_COOKIE_NAME)||null;function setActiveStyleSheet(CNN_CSS_TITLE){var i,a;for(i=0;(a=document.getElementsByTagName("link")[i]);i++){if(a.getAttribute("rel").indexOf("style")!=-1&&a.getAttribute("title")){a.disabled=true;if(a.getAttribute("title")==CNN_CSS_TITLE)a.disabled=false;}}}
function setActiveStyleSheet2(CNN_CSS_TITLE){setActiveStyleSheet(CNN_CSS_TITLE)
if(CNN_CSS_TITLE=='LargeFont'){createCookie(CNN_FONT_COOKIE_NAME,'LargeFont',24*31);}else{eraseCookie(CNN_FONT_COOKIE_NAME);}}