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 to load an external URL in a container
function ajaxpage(url, containerid) {
//	alert('hello');
	var page_request = false;
	if (window.XMLHttpRequest) // if Mozilla, Safari etc
		page_request = new XMLHttpRequest();
	else if (window.ActiveXObject){ // if IE
		try {
			page_request = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
		} 
		catch (e){
			try{
				page_request = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
			}
			catch (e){}
		}
	}
	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 to load a page in a container by making a HTTP request
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 switchMenu(obj) {
	var el = document.getElementById(obj);
	if ( el.style.display != "none" ) {
		el.style.display = 'none';
	}
	else {
		el.style.display = '';
	}
}