UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V6.4 - 6.7 Modifications Forum Design Integration Is there an easy way to read UBB's cookies?

Just wondering if there was some already-mentioned way to do this so I don't have to go write the JavaScript myself.

What I'm wanting to do is have the front of my site say "Welcome (username)" instead of just having it on the UBB front. If I could do that, I plan on taking it a step further and making sure folks are logged in before I let them do things like participate in the CGI polls, comments, etc around the site.

in version 5.45 I duplicated online.cgi and renamed it onlinessi.cgi then set $ssi=1.
Then I SSI that new file in my front page (index.shtml). It tells me:
Welcome username there are x members and x guests in the forums the past 10 minutes. Click here to know where they are.
It is pulling out the same values from online.cgi