function hideDivs() {
		document.getElementById('email_us').style.display = 'none';
}

function showDivs(string) {
	document.getElementById('email_us').style.display = 'block';
}

var http_request = false;
  function makePOSTRequest(url, parameters) {
     http_request = false;
     if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari,...
        http_request = new XMLHttpRequest();
        if (http_request.overrideMimeType) {
        	// set type accordingly to anticipated content type
           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) {
        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) {
           result = http_request.responseText;
           document.getElementById('email_us').innerHTML = result;            
        } 
     }
  }
  
  function get(postURL) {
     var poststr = "FirstName=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("FirstName").value ) +
                   "&LastName=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("LastName").value ) +
                   "&MiddleInitial=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("MiddleInitial").value ) +
                   "&submissionType=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("submissionType").value );
     makePOSTRequest(postURL, poststr);
  }
  
  function get2(postURL) {
     var poststr = "FirstName=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("FirstName").value ) +
                   "&LastName=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("LastName").value ) +
                   "&MiddleInitial=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("MiddleInitial").value ) +
                   "&Phone=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("Phone").value ) +
                   "&Email=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("Email").value ) +
                   "&WebPage=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("WebPage").value ) +
                   "&Address1=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("Address1").value ) +
                   "&Address2=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("Address2").value ) +
                   "&City=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("City").value ) +
                   "&State=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("State").value ) +
                   "&submissionType=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("submissionType").value ) +
                   "&found=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("found").value ) +
                   "&Zip=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("Zip").value );
     makePOSTRequest(postURL, poststr);
  }
  
  function sendEmail() {
  	 var poststr = "FirstName=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("FirstName").value ) +
                   "&LastName=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("LastName").value ) +
   				   "&Email=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("Email").value ) +
                   "&Comment=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("Comment").value ) +
                   "&HorseName=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("HorseName").value );
     document.getElementById('email_us').innerHTML = "Submitting . . .";
     makePOSTRequest("/ajax/send_email.php", poststr);
  }