jquery-cookie.js

/**
 * jQuery Cookie plugin
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2010 Klaus Hartl (stilbuero.de)
 * Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses:
 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
 * http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
 *
 */
(function($) {
  $.cookie = function(key, value, options) {

    // key and at least value given, set cookie...
    if (arguments.length > 1 && (!/Object/.test(Object.prototype.toString.call(value)) || value === null || value === undefined)) {
      options = $.extend({}, options);

      if (value === null || value === undefined) {
        options.expires = -1;
      }

      if (typeof options.expires === 'number') {
        var days = options.expires, t = options.expires = new Date();
        t.setDate(t.getDate() + days);
      }

      value = String(value);

      return (document.cookie = [
        encodeURIComponent(key), '=', options.raw ? value : encodeURIComponent(value),
        options.expires ? '; expires=' + options.expires.toUTCString() : '', // use expires attribute, max-age is not supported by IE
        options.path    ? '; path=' + options.path : '',
        options.domain  ? '; domain=' + options.domain : '',
        options.secure  ? '; secure' : ''
      ].join(''));
    }

    // key and possibly options given, get cookie...
    options = value || {};
    var decode = options.raw ? function(s) { return s; } : decodeURIComponent;

    var pairs = document.cookie.split('; ');
    for (var i = 0, pair; pair = pairs[i] && pairs[i].split('='); i++) {
      if (decode(pair[0]) === key) return decode(pair[1] || ''); // IE saves cookies with empty string as "c; ", e.g. without "=" as opposed to EOMB, thus pair[1] may be undefined
    }
    return null;
  };

  $.setSimpleCookie = function(name,value,f) {
    $.cookie(name,value,{
      path: '/',
      expire: 999 // TODO: 
    });
    f();
  };
  
})(jQuery);