var sideBarIDs = new Array();
sideBarIDs[0]="active-users"+catgid+foruid;
sideBarIDs[1]="popular-threads"+catgid+foruid;
sideBarIDs[2]="poll-display"+catgid+foruid;
sideBarIDs[3]="my-threads"+catgid+foruid;

function toggle_sideBar_display(divID, imgButton) {
	if (divID) {
		var el = document.getElementById(divID);
			if (el.style.display == 'none')
				{
					el.style.display = '';
					imgButton.src="images/button-minus.gif";
					updateSideBarState(divID);
				} else {
					el.style.display = 'none';
					imgButton.src="images/button_plus.gif";
					updateSideBarState(divID);
				}
	}

}

function setCookie(c_name,value,expiredays)
{
	var exdate=new Date();
	exdate.setDate(exdate.getDate()+expiredays);
	document.cookie=c_name+ "=" +escape(value)+
	((expiredays==null) ? "" : ";expires="+exdate.toGMTString());
}

function getCookie(c_name)
{
if (document.cookie.length>0)
  {
  c_start=document.cookie.indexOf(c_name + "=");
  if (c_start!=-1)
    { 
    c_start=c_start + c_name.length+1; 
    c_end=document.cookie.indexOf(";",c_start);
    if (c_end==-1) c_end=document.cookie.length;
    return unescape(document.cookie.substring(c_start,c_end));
    } 
  }
return "";
}

function updateSideBarState(divID) {
	var _cookie = "";
	 if (isGuest) {
	var	_cookieName = "guest-sideBar";
} else {
	var	_cookieName = pageUser+"-sideBar";
}
for (i=0; i< sideBarIDs.length;i++ ) {
		var el = document.getElementById(sideBarIDs[i]);
		if (el) {
			_cookie = _cookie + sideBarIDs[i] + ":";
			if (el.style.display == 'none') {
				_cookie = _cookie+"+/"
			} else {
				
				_cookie = _cookie+"-/"
			}
		}
	}
	setCookie(_cookieName, _cookie);}