var http_request = false;
   function makePOSTRequest(url, parameters) {
   document.getElementById("progress_image").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 == 52) { 
			document.getElementById("text_boxes").style.display = "none";
            document.getElementById("progress_image").style.display = "none";
            document.getElementById("confirmation_text").style.display = "";
            document.getElementById("errormsg").style.display = "none";
            //document.forms[0].reset();
            } else {		
	        document.getElementById("progress_image").style.display = "none";
	        document.getElementById("confirmation_text").style.display = "none";
	        document.getElementById("errormsg").style.display = "";
	        document.getElementById("errormsg").innerHTML = http_request.responseText;
	        	
	        	if (http_request.responseText.length == 17) {
	        	 	document.getElementById("yourEmail").style.color = "#000000";
	        	}
	        	
	        	
	        }
         } else {
            alert('There was a problem with the request.');
            alert(http_request.responseText.length);
         }
      }
   }
   
   function getMailchimp(obj) {
      var poststr = "EMAILF=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("EMAILF").value ) +
                    "&FNAMEF=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("FNAMEF").value ) +
                    "&LNAMEF=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("LNAMEF").value );
      makePOSTRequest('../dependencies/subscribe.php', poststr);
   }