Problem retrieving cookie-data

[Peter74]

Hello,

I'm having som problems with cookies. From a website I found the following two general functions for setting and getting a cookie:

function setCookie(name, value, expires, path, domain, secure) {
var curCookie = name + "=" + escape(value) +
((expires) ? "; expires=" + expires.toGMTString() : "&quot +
((path) ? "; path=" + path : "&quot +
((domain) ? "; domain=" + domain : "&quot +
((secure) ? "; secure" : ""
document.cookie = curCookie;
}

function getCookie(name) {
var dc = document.cookie;
var prefix = name + "=";
var begin = dc.indexOf("; " + prefix);

if (begin == -1) {

switch (name) {
case 'theme': setCookie("theme","default"break;
case 'sortBy': setCookie("sortBy","title"break;
case 'sortOrder': setCookie("sortOrder","desc"break;
case 'printWithPic': setCookie("printWithPic","no"break;
default: setCookie(name,""

}
begin = dc.indexOf(prefix);
if (begin != 0) return null;
} else
begin += 2;
var end = document.cookie.indexOf(";", begin);

if (end == -1)
end = dc.length;
return unescape(dc.substring(begin + prefix.length, end));
}

The switch-block was added by me to give "name" a default value in the case no value has been set.

This code works fine in IE, but not in mozilla. If I do this:

var tmp = getCookie("theme"
alert("value is " + getCookie("theme&quot);

The alertbox in mozilla writes: Value is null

What is wrong with this code?

Notice that I write:

var tmp = getCookie("theme"
alert("value is " + getCookie("theme&quot);

The reasson I call getCookie twice is that if the value of "name" has not been defined, it needs to be set to some default value. I can then call the function again and get this value. I tried doing this recursively by adding this just after the switch-block:

getCookie(name);

but then mozilla javascript console writes: Too much recursion

How can I do this so that I don't have to call getCookie twice several places in my site?

Thanks
/Peter