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Can I delete this script?

to save bandwidth

         

HuhuFruFru

7:17 pm on Jun 16, 2006 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I have a phpbb-Forum and one template I recently installed has this strange code:

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
<!--

var PreloadFlag = false;
var expDays = 90;
var exp = new Date();
var tmp = '';
var tmp_counter = 0;
var tmp_open = 0;

exp.setTime(exp.getTime() + (expDays*24*60*60*1000));

function changeImages()
{
if (document.images)
{
for (var i=0; i<changeImages.arguments.length; i+=2)
{
document[changeImages.arguments[i]].src = changeImages.arguments[i+1];
}
}
}

function newImage(arg)
{
if (document.images)
{
rslt = new Image();
rslt.src = arg;
return rslt;
}
}

function PreloadImages()
{
if (document.images)
{
// preload all rollover images
<!-- BEGIN switch_user_logged_out -->
img0 = newImage('{T_TEMPLATE_PATH}/images/lang_{LANG}/btn_login_on.gif');
img1 = newImage('{T_TEMPLATE_PATH}/images/lang_{LANG}/btn_register_on.gif');
<!-- END switch_user_logged_out -->
<!-- BEGIN switch_user_logged_in -->
img2 = newImage('{T_TEMPLATE_PATH}/images/lang_{LANG}/btn_pm_on.gif');
img3 = newImage('{T_TEMPLATE_PATH}/images/lang_{LANG}/btn_profile_on.gif');
img4 = newImage('{T_TEMPLATE_PATH}/images/lang_{LANG}/btn_groups_on.gif');
img5 = newImage('{T_TEMPLATE_PATH}/images/lang_{LANG}/btn_logout_on.gif');
<!-- END switch_user_logged_in -->
img6 = newImage('{T_TEMPLATE_PATH}/images/lang_{LANG}/btn_faq_on.gif');
img7 = newImage('{T_TEMPLATE_PATH}/images/lang_{LANG}/btn_search_on.gif');
img8 = newImage('{T_TEMPLATE_PATH}/images/lang_{LANG}/btn_users_on.gif');
img9 = newImage('{T_TEMPLATE_PATH}/images/lang_{LANG}/btn_index_on.gif');
PreloadFlag = true;
}
return true;
}

function SetCookie(name, value)
{
var argv = SetCookie.arguments;
var argc = SetCookie.arguments.length;
var expires = (argc > 2)? argv[2] : null;
var path = (argc > 3)? argv[3] : null;
var domain = (argc > 4)? argv[4] : null;
var secure = (argc > 5)? argv[5] : false;
document.cookie = name + "=" + escape(value) +
((expires == null)? "" : ("; expires=" + expires.toGMTString())) +
((path == null)? "" : ("; path=" + path)) +
((domain == null)? "" : ("; domain=" + domain)) +
((secure == true)? "; secure" : "");
}

function getCookieVal(offset)
{
var endstr = document.cookie.indexOf(";",offset);
if (endstr == -1)
{
endstr = document.cookie.length;
}
return unescape(document.cookie.substring(offset, endstr));
}

function GetCookie(name)
{
var arg = name + "=";
var alen = arg.length;
var clen = document.cookie.length;
var i = 0;
while (i < clen)
{
var j = i + alen;
if (document.cookie.substring(i, j) == arg)
return getCookieVal(j);
i = document.cookie.indexOf(" ", i) + 1;
if (i == 0)


break;
}
return null;
}

//-->
</script>


Question: Can I delete it? I tried and if I remove it, there is no difference, must be sth for preloading images (which I don't use) and a cookie, but is it necessary? I tried to login and logout and everything worked very fine *without* that code.

I would appreciate any comment (I habe obviously no idea about javascript)

garann

11:32 pm on Jun 16, 2006 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



If you're not using image rollovers or cookies, it's probably safe. Why not just save a copy of the file with the script still in, and then you can revert back to it if you do see problems later?