// JavaScript Document
	// buyItem - adds an item to the shooping basket    
	
function buyItem(newItem, newPrice, newWeight, newQuantity) {
	
	        alert('This item has been added to your cart!');
		if (newQuantity <= 0) {
			rc = alert('The quantity entered is incorrect');
			return false;
		}
			
		
		index = document.cookie.indexOf("TheBasket");
		countbegin = (document.cookie.indexOf("=", index) + 1);
        	countend = document.cookie.indexOf(";", index);
	      if (countend == -1) {
        		countend = document.cookie.length;
        		}
	      document.cookie="TheBasket="+document.cookie.substring(countbegin, countend)+"["+newItem+","+newPrice+"$"+newWeight+"#"+newQuantity+"]";
		return true;
}