   var http_request = false;

   function makePOSTRequest(url, parameters) {
      http_request = false;
      if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari,...
         http_request = new XMLHttpRequest();
         if (http_request.overrideMimeType) {http_request.overrideMimeType('text/html');}
      } 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 = alertContents;
      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 alertContents() {
   
	  if (http_request.readyState == 4) {
               
                if (http_request.status == 200) {
                     var response = http_request.responseText.split("|");
		     var acontainer="";
                      acontainer=response[5];
                      top.document.getElementById(acontainer).innerHTML=response[1];
                 }
                else
               {
                   alert('There was a problem with the request.');
               }
      }
   }
   
   function get(obj) {



   var poststr='';
	var y=1;
 var gif_url='http://www.ericrhode.co.uk/';
 
var form_action='';
form_action =document.getElementById("form_action").value;
 poststr += "name=" + encodeURI(document.getElementById("name").value )+"&email=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("email").value )+"&message=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("message").value )+"&form_type=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("form_type").value )+"&site_name=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("site_name").value )+"&acontainer=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("acontainer").value );
//     alert(poststr );
//top.document.getElementById("acontainer").innerHTML='Loading..';
 // top.document.getElementById(document.getElementById("acontainer").value).innerHTML=gif_url+' themes/site_themes/images/ajax-loader.gif />' ;
  top.document.getElementById(document.getElementById("acontainer").value).innerHTML='Please wait...';
  makePOSTRequest(form_action, poststr);


   }