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;
 }
};