// Default Messages
var msgsaved = "The information has been saved!";
var msgsaving = "The information is being saved";
var msgloading = "The information is loading";
var titledefault = "Welcome to Carr/'s Driving School";

var bustcachevar=1 //bust potential caching of external pages after initial request? (1=yes, 0=no);
var loadedobjects="";
var rootdomain="http://"+window.location.hostname;
var bustcacheparameter="";
function $(objid){
return document.getElementById(objid);
}
function changetitle(newtitle){
 //alert("The title in changetitle is " + newtitle)
 document.title = newtitle;
}
function ajaxpage(url, containerid, pagetitle, xfertype, postfunction){
 var page_request = false;
 if(pagetitle.length > 0){
  changetitle(pagetitle);
 }
 if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
 {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
  page_request=new XMLHttpRequest();
 }else{ // code for IE6, IE5
  page_request=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
 }
 page_request.onreadystatechange=function(){
  loadpage(page_request, containerid)
  }
 if (bustcachevar) //if bust caching of external page
  bustcacheparameter=(url.indexOf("?")!=-1)? "&"+new Date().getTime() : "?"+new Date().getTime()

 if (xfertype =='GET'){
  page_request.open('GET', url, true);// changed true to false - sunchronis - didn;t work
  page_request.send(null)
 }else{
  var params = postfunction;
  page_request.open('POST', url+bustcacheparameter, true)// just a test
  //alert ("url + bustcacheparmatere is " + url+bustcacheparameter);
  page_request.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
  page_request.setRequestHeader("Content-length", params.length);
  page_request.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close");
  //alert("Just before submitting params " + params);
  page_request.send(params);
  //alert("Just sent the params " + params + " to " + url);
  //show('recordsavedarea');
 }
//  page_request.send(null) // moved into the GET/POST logic
}

function loadpage(page_request, containerid){
 if (page_request.readyState == 4 && (page_request.status==200 || window.location.href.indexOf("http")==-1))
 $(containerid).innerHTML=page_request.responseText
}

function loadobjs(){
//alert("In ajaxpage,loadobjs function, the page requested is "+ page_request + " the container is " + containerid);
//if (!document.getElementById)
//return
for (i=0; i<arguments.length; i++){
var file=arguments[i]
var fileref=""
if (loadedobjects.indexOf(file)==-1){ //Check to see if this object has not already been added to page before proceeding
if (file.indexOf(".js")!=-1){ //If object is a js file
fileref=document.createElement('script')
fileref.setAttribute("type","text/javascript");
fileref.setAttribute("src", file);
}
else if (file.indexOf(".css")!=-1){ //If object is a css file
fileref=document.createElement("link")
fileref.setAttribute("rel", "stylesheet");
fileref.setAttribute("type", "text/css");
fileref.setAttribute("href", file);
}
}
if (fileref!=""){
document.getElementsByTagName("head").item(0).appendChild(fileref)
loadedobjects+=file+" " //Remember this object as being already added to page
}
}
}