/**
 * @author Admin
 */
 var http_request = false;
 url = 'http://www.bigapplesportspalace.com/aj/pagedata.php?item=';
 
 function setLoading() {
	
			var statusDiv = document.getElementById('statusDiv');
	
			statusDiv.innerHTML='<img src="http://www.bigapplesportspalace.com/img/aniloading.gif" align="center">';

	
}
function clearLoading() {
	
			var statusDiv = document.getElementById('statusDiv');
			
			statusDiv.innerHTML = ' ';
}

   function makeRequest(parameters) {
      http_request = false;
	  setLoading();
      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 = displayContents;
      http_request.open('GET', url + parameters, true);
      http_request.send(null);
   }

   function displayContents() {
      if (http_request.readyState == 4) {
         if (http_request.status == 200) {
            //alert(http_request.responseText);
            result = http_request.responseText;
            document.getElementById('contentContainer').innerHTML = result;
			clearLoading();            
         } else {
            alert('There was a problem with the request.');
         }
      }
   }