var W3CDOM = (document.createElement && document.getElementsByTagName);

jmpTo = function(loc) { window.location = loc }

//ajax contact form
var http_request = false;

function show_hint ( p_hint_text, p_span ) {
	document.getElementById(p_span).innerHTML = p_hint_text ;
}

function makePOSTRequest(url, parameters) {
	http_request = false;
	if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari,...
		http_request = new XMLHttpRequest();
		if (http_request.overrideMimeType) {
			http_request.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
		}
	} else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE
		try {
			http_request = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
		} catch (e) {
			try {
				http_request = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
			} catch (e) {}
		}
	}
	if (!http_request) {
		alert('Cannot create XMLHTTP instance');
		return false;
	}
	http_request.onreadystatechange = function() {
		if (http_request.readyState == 4) {
			if (http_request.status == 200) {
				//alert(http_request.responseText);
				//result = http_request.responseText;
				$('loadBar').style.display = "none";
				$('emailSuccess').style.display = "block";
				$('blankfields').style.display="none";
			} else {
				alert('There was a problem with the request.');
			}
		}
	};
	http_request.open('POST', url, true);
	http_request.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
	http_request.setRequestHeader("Content-length", parameters.length);
	http_request.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close");
	http_request.send(parameters);
};


function Contact() {
	$('emailSuccess').style.display = "none";
	var curDateTime = new Date(); //For IE
	var name = encodeURI( $("name").value );
	var email = encodeURI( $("email").value );
	var message = encodeURI( $("msg").value );
	
	if((name != "")&&(email != "")&&(message!="")){
		var poststr = "name=" + name +
			"&email=" + email +
			"&uniqueID=" + curDateTime +
			"&msg=" + message ;
		$('emailSuccess').style.display = "none";
		$('loadBar').style.display = "block";
		$('blankfields').style.display="none";
		setTimeout("sendContact()",1250);
		sendContact = function(){
			makePOSTRequest('/scripts/contact.php', poststr)
		}
	}
	else{
		$('blankfields').style.display="block";
		/*$('name').value = "this is what people call you...";
		$('email').value = "usually has an @ symbol.";
		$('msg').value = "down by the bay, where the watermelons grow, back to my home, i dare not go, for if i do, my mother would say..."*/
	}
};

function expander(element){
	Effect.BlindDown(element);
}