var http_request = false;
   function makeRequest(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/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;
	    document.getElementById('myspan').style.backgroundColor = '#00CC00';
	    document.getElementById('name').disabled = true;
	    document.getElementById('phone').disabled = true;
	    document.getElementById('email').disabled = true;
	    document.getElementById('notes').disabled = true;
	    document.getElementById('send').disabled = true;
         } else {
            alert('There was a problem with the request.');
         }
      }
   }
   
function get(obj) {
	if ((document.getElementById("email").value.length < 3) && (document.getElementById("phone").value.length < 3)) {
		alert('Please enter an email addreses or \nphone number so we can contact you.');
		exit();
	}
	
  var getstr = "?";
  for (i=0; i<obj.getElementsByTagName("input").length; i++) {
        if (obj.getElementsByTagName("input")[i].type == "text") {
		getstr += obj.getElementsByTagName("input")[i].name + "=" + 
                obj.getElementsByTagName("input")[i].value + "&";
        }
  }
  getstr += obj.getElementsByTagName("textarea")[0].name + "=" + 
  obj.getElementsByTagName("textarea")[0].value + "&";

  makeRequest('new/contact2.php', getstr);
}