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* This notice MUST stay intact for legal use
* Visit Dynamic Drive at http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ for full source code
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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 ajaxpage(url, containerid){
var page_request = false
if (window.XMLHttpRequest) // if Mozilla, Safari etc
page_request = new XMLHttpRequest()
else if (window.ActiveXObject){ // if IE
page_request = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
}
else
return false
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()
page_request.open('GET', url+bustcacheparameter, true)
page_request.send(null)
}

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

function ajaxcombo(selectobjID, loadarea){
var selectobj=document.getElementById? document.getElementById(selectobjID) : ""
if (selectobj!="" && selectobj.options[selectobj.selectedIndex].value!="")
ajaxpage(rootdomain+"/"+selectobj.options[selectobj.selectedIndex].value, loadarea)
}

function loadobjs(){
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
}
}
}


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function sack(file) {
	this.xmlhttp = null;

	this.resetData = function() {
		this.method = "POST";
  		this.queryStringSeparator = "?";
		this.argumentSeparator = "&";
		this.URLString = "";
		this.encodeURIString = true;
  		this.execute = false;
  		this.element = null;
		this.elementObj = null;
		this.requestFile = file;
		this.vars = new Object();
		this.responseStatus = new Array(2);
  	};

	this.resetFunctions = function() {
  		this.onLoading = function() { };
  		this.onLoaded = function() { };
  		this.onInteractive = function() { };
  		this.onCompletion = function() { };
  		this.onError = function() { };
		this.onFail = function() { };
	};

	this.reset = function() {
		this.resetFunctions();
		this.resetData();
	};

	this.createAJAX = function() {
		try {
			this.xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
		} catch (e1) {
			try {
				this.xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
			} catch (e2) {
				this.xmlhttp = null;
			}
		}

		if (! this.xmlhttp) {
			if (typeof XMLHttpRequest != "undefined") {
				this.xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
			} else {
				this.failed = true;
			}
		}
	};

	this.setVar = function(name, value){
		this.vars[name] = Array(value, false);
	};

	this.encVar = function(name, value, returnvars) {
		if (true == returnvars) {
			return Array(encodeURIComponent(name), encodeURIComponent(value));
		} else {
			this.vars[encodeURIComponent(name)] = Array(encodeURIComponent(value), true);
		}
	}

	this.processURLString = function(string, encode) {
		encoded = encodeURIComponent(this.argumentSeparator);
		regexp = new RegExp(this.argumentSeparator + "|" + encoded);
		varArray = string.split(regexp);
		for (i = 0; i < varArray.length; i++){
			urlVars = varArray[i].split("=");
			if (true == encode){
				this.encVar(urlVars[0], urlVars[1]);
			} else {
				this.setVar(urlVars[0], urlVars[1]);
			}
		}
	}

	this.createURLString = function(urlstring) {
		if (this.encodeURIString && this.URLString.length) {
			this.processURLString(this.URLString, true);
		}

		if (urlstring) {
			if (this.URLString.length) {
				this.URLString += this.argumentSeparator + urlstring;
			} else {
				this.URLString = urlstring;
			}
		}

		// prevents caching of URLString
		this.setVar("rndval", new Date().getTime());

		urlstringtemp = new Array();
		for (key in this.vars) {
			if (false == this.vars[key][1] && true == this.encodeURIString) {
				encoded = this.encVar(key, this.vars[key][0], true);
				delete this.vars[key];
				this.vars[encoded[0]] = Array(encoded[1], true);
				key = encoded[0];
			}

			urlstringtemp[urlstringtemp.length] = key + "=" + this.vars[key][0];
		}
		if (urlstring){
			this.URLString += this.argumentSeparator + urlstringtemp.join(this.argumentSeparator);
		} else {
			this.URLString += urlstringtemp.join(this.argumentSeparator);
		}
	}

	this.runResponse = function() {
		eval(this.response);
	}

	this.runAJAX = function(urlstring) {
		if (this.failed) {
			this.onFail();
		} else {
			this.createURLString(urlstring);
			if (this.element) {
				this.elementObj = document.getElementById(this.element);
			}
			if (this.xmlhttp) {
				var self = this;
				if (this.method == "GET") {
					totalurlstring = this.requestFile + this.queryStringSeparator + this.URLString;
					this.xmlhttp.open(this.method, totalurlstring, true);
				} else {
					this.xmlhttp.open(this.method, this.requestFile, true);
					try {
						this.xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
					} catch (e) { }
				}

				this.xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
					switch (self.xmlhttp.readyState) {
						case 1:
							self.onLoading();
							break;
						case 2:
							self.onLoaded();
							break;
						case 3:
							self.onInteractive();
							break;
						case 4:
							self.response = self.xmlhttp.responseText;
							self.responseXML = self.xmlhttp.responseXML;
							self.responseStatus[0] = self.xmlhttp.status;
							self.responseStatus[1] = self.xmlhttp.statusText;

							if (self.execute) {
								self.runResponse();
							}

							if (self.elementObj) {
								elemNodeName = self.elementObj.nodeName;
								elemNodeName.toLowerCase();
								if (elemNodeName == "input"
								|| elemNodeName == "select"
								|| elemNodeName == "option"
								|| elemNodeName == "textarea") {
									self.elementObj.value = self.response;
								} else {
									self.elementObj.innerHTML = self.response;
								}
							}
							if (self.responseStatus[0] == "200") {
								self.onCompletion();
							} else {
								self.onError();
							}

							self.URLString = "";
							break;
					}
				};

				this.xmlhttp.send(this.URLString);
			}
		}
	};

	this.reset();
	this.createAJAX();
}


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