var http_request = false;
   function makeRequest(url, parameters) {
      //alert(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/xml');
            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) {
         alert('Cannot create XMLHTTP instance');
         return false;
      }
      http_request.onreadystatechange = alertContents;
      http_request.open('GET', url + parameters, true);
      http_request.send(null);
   }

   function alertContents() {
      if (http_request.readyState == 4) {
         if (http_request.status == 200) {
            //alert(http_request.responseText);
            result = http_request.responseText;
            document.getElementById('myspan').innerHTML = result;            
         } else {
            alert('There was a problem with the request.');
         }
      }
   }
   
	function get(list,obj) {
		if (!obj) var obj = document;
		var tagNames = list.split(',');
		var resultArray = new Array();
	  var getstr = "?";	
		for (var i=0;i<tagNames.length;i++) {
			var tags = obj.getElementsByTagName(tagNames[i]);
			for (var j=0;j<tags.length;j++) {
				theName = tags[j].name;		
				theValue = tags[j].value;
				resultArray.push(tags[j]);
				getstr += theName+"="+theValue+"&";	
			}
		}
		var testNode = resultArray[0];
		if (!testNode) return [];
		if (testNode.sourceIndex) {
			resultArray.sort(function (a,b) {
					return a.sourceIndex - b.sourceIndex;
			});
		}
		else if (testNode.compareDocumentPosition) {
			resultArray.sort(function (a,b) {
					return 3 - (a.compareDocumentPosition(b) & 6);
			});
		}
		//alert(resultArray);		
		//alert(getstr);	
		makeRequest('/includes/postform.php', getstr);
	}