var http_request = false;
   function makePOSTRequest(url, parameters) {
   document.getElementById("progress").style.display = "";
      http_request = false;
      if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari,...
         http_request = new XMLHttpRequest();
         if (http_request.overrideMimeType) {
            http_request.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
         }
      } 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('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) {
         
         
         if (http_request.responseText.length == 2) {
            document.getElementById("progress").style.display = "none";
            document.getElementById("form_fields").style.display = "none";
            document.getElementById("form_fields2").style.display = "none";
            document.getElementById("form_fields3").style.display = "none";
            document.getElementById("conf_text").style.display = "";
            document.getElementById("conf_button").style.display = "";
            document.getElementById("errormsg").style.display = "none";
          } else {
	        document.getElementById("progress").style.display = "none";
	        document.getElementById("errormsg").style.display = "";
	        document.getElementById("errormsg").innerHTML = http_request.responseText;
	      }      
          
         } else {
            alert('There was a problem with the request.');
            alert(http_request.responseText);
         }
      }
   }
   
   function get(obj) {
      var poststr = "name=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("name").value ) +
                    "&yemail=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("yemail").value ) +
                    "&femail=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("femail").value ) + 
                    "&comments=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("comments").value ) +
                    "&article_title=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("article_title").value ) +
                    "&article_link=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("article_link").value );
      makePOSTRequest('http://www.paramountclassics.com/blog/assets/scripts/send_to_a_friend.php', poststr);
   }