   var http5_request = false;
function makePOSTRequest5(url, parameters) {
      http5_request = false;
      if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari,...
         http5_request = new XMLHttpRequest();
         if (http5_request.overrideMimeType) {
         	// set type accordingly to anticipated content type
            //http5_request.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
            http5_request.overrideMimeType('text/html');
         }
      } else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE
         try {
            http5_request = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
         } catch (e) {
            try {
               http5_request = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
            } catch (e) {}
         }
      }
      if (!http5_request) {
         alert('Cannot create XMLHTTP instance');
         return false;
      }
 
      http5_request.onreadystatechange = alertContentssave2ev;
      http5_request.open('POST', url, true);
      http5_request.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
      http5_request.setRequestHeader("Content-length", parameters.length);
      http5_request.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close");
      http5_request.send(parameters);
   }
 
   function alertContentssave2ev() {
     if(http5_request.readyState==3)
    {
    document.getElementById("displaybox2").innerHTML="<center><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><img src=\"ajax/ajax-loader.gif\"></center>";
    }
	  if (http5_request.readyState == 4) {
         if (http5_request.status == 200) {
            //alert(http5_request.responseText);
            result = http5_request.responseText;
            document.getElementById('displaybox2').innerHTML = result;            
         } else {
            alert('There was a problem with the request.');
         }
      }
   }
 
   function geteventsave(obj) {
  var poststr = "name=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("name").value ) +
	  	  		  	"&sday=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("sday").value ) +
					"&eday=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("eday").value ) +
					"&myear=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("myear").value ) +
					"&emyear=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("emyear").value ) +
					"&starttime=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("starttime").value ) +
					"&eventid=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("eventid").value ) +
					"&endtime=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("endtime").value ) +
					"&suburb=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("subdrop").value ) +
					"&city=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("citydrop").value ) +
					"&country=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("country").value ) +
					"&age=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("age").value ) +
					"&description=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("description").value ) +
					"&registration=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("registration").value ) +
					"&province=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("provdrop").value ) +
					"&venue=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("venue").value ) +
					"&venueaddress=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("venueaddress").value ) +
                    "&directions=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("directions").value );
	  makePOSTRequest5('ajax/first/eventprofile.php', poststr);
   }
