var http_request_mail = false;
   function makePOSTRequest_mail(url, parameters) {
      http_request_mail = false;
      if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari,...
         http_request_mail = new XMLHttpRequest();
         if (http_request_mail.overrideMimeType) {
         	// set type accordingly to anticipated content type
            //http_request.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
            http_request_mail.overrideMimeType('text/html');
         }
      } else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE
         try {
            http_request_mail = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
         } catch (e) {
            try {
               http_request_mail = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
            } catch (e) {}
         }
      }
      if (!http_request_mail) {
         alert('Cannot create XMLHTTP instance');
         return false;
      }
      
      http_request_mail.onreadystatechange = alertContents_mail;
      http_request_mail.open('POST', url, true);
      http_request_mail.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
      http_request_mail.setRequestHeader("Content-length", parameters.length);
      http_request_mail.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close");
      http_request_mail.send(parameters);
   }

   function alertContents_mail() {
   	document.getElementById('formAddMailSpan').innerHTML = '<p><img src="../../gfx/icons/mail_small.png"> Sender besked</p><p>Vent venligst</p>';
      if (http_request_mail.readyState == 4) {
         if (http_request_mail.status == 200) {
            //alert(http_request.responseText);
            result = http_request_mail.responseText;
            document.getElementById('formAddMailSpan').innerHTML = result;  
         } else {
            alert('There was a problem with the request.');
         }
      }
   }
   
   
   function get_mail(obj) {  
      var poststr = "newsID=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("newsID").value ) +
	  "&name=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("name").value ) +
	  "&friendname=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("friendname").value ) +
	  "&friendemail=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("friendemail").value );	
	  
      makePOSTRequest_mail('../../includes/sendMail2friend.php?type=news', poststr);
	  document.getElementById('showMailAddForm').style.display = 'none';
   }