function makeRequest(id_target,url) {
        var http_request = false;
        //if (!parameters)
        //parameters='';

        if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari, ...
            http_request = new XMLHttpRequest();
            if (http_request.overrideMimeType) {
                http_request.overrideMimeType('text/html');
                // See note below about this line
            }
        } 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('Giving up :( Cannot create an XMLHTTP instance');
            return false;
        }
        http_request.onreadystatechange = function() { alertContents(http_request,id_target); };
        http_request.open('GET', url, true);
        http_request.send(null);

    }

    function alertContents(http_request,id_target) {
    	if (http_request.readyState == 1)
    	{document.getElementById(id_target).innerHTML = "<img src='http://localhost/images/loader.gif' width='30' />";}

        if (http_request.readyState == 4) {
            if (http_request.status == 200)
            {
                document.getElementById(id_target).innerHTML = http_request.responseText;
            } else {
                alert('There was a problem with the request http_request.');
            }
        }

    }


function _rate (_sid,_updown)
{
///alert("rate:"+_updown+"/ID:"+_sid);
makeRequest('rate'+_sid,'http://stockspager.com/rate.php?_sid='+_sid+'&_ud='+_updown);
}

 function getsubmit(obj) {
      var getstr = "?";
      for (i=0; i<obj.childNodes.length; i++) {
         if (obj.childNodes[i].tagName == "INPUT") {
            if (obj.childNodes[i].type == "text") {
               getstr += obj.childNodes[i].name + "=" + obj.childNodes[i].value + "&";
            }
            ///if (obj.childNodes[i].type == "checkbox") {
            ///   if (obj.childNodes[i].checked) {
            ///      getstr += obj.childNodes[i].name + "=" + obj.childNodes[i].value + "&";
            ///   } else {
            ///      getstr += obj.childNodes[i].name + "=&";
            ///   }
            ///}
            ///if (obj.childNodes[i].type == "radio") {
            ///   if (obj.childNodes[i].checked) {
            ///      getstr += obj.childNodes[i].name + "=" + obj.childNodes[i].value + "&";
            ///   }
            }
         }   
         ///if (obj.childNodes[i].tagName == "SELECT") {
         ///   var sel = obj.childNodes[i];
         ///   getstr += sel.name + "=" + sel.options[sel.selectedIndex].value + "&";
         ///}
         
      ///}
      var getstr = getstr.replace(/\\\'/g, "");
      ///alert(getstr);
      getstr += '_id=' + document.getElementById('_id').value;
      makeRequest('form_result','http://stockspager.com/help_calc.php'+getstr);

      ///makeRequest('help_calc.php', getstr);
   }