var mylogin = '';

function change_category(cat,reload) {  
  if (reload != 2) {
   mycategory = cat;
   setCategories();
   }
  else {
   self.document.dbs.category.value = cat;
   self.document.dbs.submit();
   }
 if (reload == 1)
  self.location.href = self.location.href;
}

function getCategories() {
  
//  var str = GetCookie("login");
//  if (str != null) {
//    mylogin = str;
//  }
//  str = GetCookie("category" + mylogin);
  str = GetCookie("category");
  if (str != null) {
    mycategory = str;
  }

//  str = GetCookie("personal" + mylogin);
//  var j=0;
    str = '';
    if (str != null) {
    for (var i=str; i; i=i.substring (i.indexOf('&') + 1)) {
    mydb[j] = i.substring(0, i.indexOf('&', 0));
    j++;
  }
 }
}

function setCategories() {
   var str ="";
   var expdate = new Date();
   expdate.setTime (expdate.getTime() + (24*60*60*1000*365));
   SetCookie("category", mycategory, expdate);
// non si gestice la login
//   SetCookie("login", mylogin, expdate, '/');
//   SetCookie("category" + mylogin, mycategory, expdate, '/');
// personal not handled when handled
//   for (var i=0; i < mydb.length; i++) {
//     str = str + mydb[i] + "&";
//   }
//   SetCookie("personal" + mylogin, str, expdate, '/');
}

 function nick2cat (nick) {
  if(!nick)
    nick = mycategory;
 for (var i=0; i< categories.length; i++) {
   if (categories[i].nickname == nick)
     return categories[i]
  }
 return ;
}  

function getcatprofile () {
 obj = nick2cat();
 return obj.profile;
}


function category(cat) {  
 obj = nick2cat(cat);  
 self.document.write(obj.title);
}