function enableSection(section){
		document.getElementById(section).style.display = (document.getElementById(section).style.display != 'none' ? 'none' : '' );
}

function makeRequest(url,id) {
	//alert(url);
	document.getElementById(id).innerHTML = '<img src="/images/loading.gif" border="0"/>';
	var httpRequest;
	if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari, ...
		httpRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
		if (httpRequest.overrideMimeType) {
			httpRequest.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
		}
	} 
	else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE
		try {
			httpRequest = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
		} 
		catch (e) {
			try {
				httpRequest = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
			} 
			catch (e) {}
		}
	}

	if (!httpRequest) {
		alert('Giving up :( Cannot create an XMLHTTP instance');
		return false;
	}
	httpRequest.onreadystatechange = function() { alertContents(httpRequest,id); };
	httpRequest.open('GET', url+'&nocache='+new Date().getTime(), true);
	httpRequest.send(null);
}

function ajaxRequest(method,url,params,id) {
    params = params+'&nocache='+new Date().getTime();
	document.getElementById(id).innerHTML = '<img src="/images/loading.gif" border="0"/>';
	var httpRequest;
	if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari, ...
		httpRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
		if (httpRequest.overrideMimeType) {
			httpRequest.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
		}
	} 
	else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE
		try {
			httpRequest = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
		} 
		catch (e) {
			try {
				httpRequest = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
			} 
			catch (e) {}
		}
	}

	if (!httpRequest) {
		alert('Giving up :( Cannot create an XMLHTTP instance');
		return false;
	}
	httpRequest.onreadystatechange = function() { alertContents(httpRequest,id); };
	if(method == 'GET'){
		httpRequest.open('GET', url+'?'+params, true);
		httpRequest.send(null);
	}
	else if (method == 'POST'){
		httpRequest.open("POST", url, true);
		httpRequest.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
		httpRequest.setRequestHeader("Content-length", params.length);
		httpRequest.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close");
		httpRequest.send(params);
	}
	else{
		alert('Giving up :( Cannot understand this method');
	}
}


function alertContents(httpRequest,id) {

	if (httpRequest.readyState == 4) {
		if (httpRequest.status == 200) {				
			document.getElementById(id).innerHTML = httpRequest.responseText;
		} 
		else {
			alert('There was a problem with the request.');
		}
	}
}