/**

• Create a cookie with the given name and value and other optional parameters.
• @example $.cookie('the_cookie','the_value');
• @desc Set the value of a cookie.
• @example $.cookie('the_cookie',path: '/',domain: 'jquery.com',secure: true });
• @desc Create a cookie with all available options.
• @example $.cookie('the_cookie','the_value');
• @desc Create a session cookie.
• @example $.cookie('the_cookie',null);
• @desc Delete a cookie by passing null as value. Keep in mind that you have to use the same path and domain
• used when the cookie was set.
• @param String name The name of the cookie.
• @param String value The value of the cookie.
• @param Object options An object literal containing key/value pairs to provide optional cookie attributes.
• @option Number|Date expires Either an integer specifying the expiration date from now on in days or a Date object.
• If a negative value is specified (e.g. a date in the past),the cookie will be deleted.
• If set to null or omitted,the cookie will be a session cookie and will not be retained
• when the the browser exits.
• @option String path The value of the path atribute of the cookie (default: path of page that created the cookie).
• @option String domain The value of the domain attribute of the cookie (default: domain of page that created the cookie).
• @option Boolean secure If true,the secure attribute of the cookie will be set and the cookie transmission will
• require a secure protocol (like HTTPS).
• @type undefined
• @name $.cookie
• @cat Plugins/Cookie
• @author Klaus Hartl/klaus.hartl@stilbuero.de
  */

/**

• Get the value of a cookie with the given name.
• @example $.cookie('the_cookie');
• @desc Get the value of a cookie.
• @param String name The name of the cookie.
• @return The value of the cookie.
• @type String
• @name $.cookie
• @cat Plugins/Cookie
• @author Klaus Hartl/klaus.hartl@stilbuero.de
  /
  jQuery.cookie = function(name,value,options) {
  if (typeof value != 'undefined') { // name and value given,set cookie
  options = options || {};
  if (value === null) {
  value = '';
  options = $.extend({},options); // clone object since it's unexpected behavior if the expired property were changed
  options.expires = -1;
  }
  var expires = '';
  if (options.expires && (typeof options.expires == 'number' || options.expires.toUTCString)) {
  var date;
  if (typeof options.expires == 'number') {
  date = new Date();
  date.setTime(date.getTime() + (options.expires 24 60 60 * 1000));
  } else {
  date = options.expires;
  }
  expires = '; expires=' + date.toUTCString(); // use expires attribute,max-age is not supported by IE
  }
  // NOTE Needed to parenthesize options.path and options.domain
  // in the following expressions,otherwise they evaluate to undefined
  // in the packed version for some reason...
  var path = options.path ? '; path=' + (options.path) : '';
  var domain = options.domain ? '; domain=' + (options.domain) : '';
  var secure = options.secure ? '; secure' : '';
  document.cookie = [name,'=',encodeURIComponent(value),expires,path,domain,secure].join('');
  } else { // only name given,get cookie
  var cookieValue = null;
  if (document.cookie && document.cookie != '') {
  var cookies = document.cookie.split(';');
  for (var i = 0; i < cookies.length; i++) {
  var cookie = jQuery.trim(cookies[i]);
  // Does this cookie string begin with the name we want?
  if (cookie.substring(0,name.length + 1) == (name + '=')) {
  cookieValue = decodeURIComponent(cookie.substring(name.length + 1));
  break;
  }
  }
  }
  return cookieValue;
  }
  };