var http9_request = false;
function makePOSTRequest9(url, parameters) {
      http9_request = false;
      if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari,...
         http9_request = new XMLHttpRequest();
         if (http9_request.overrideMimeType) {
         	// set type accordingly to anticipated content type
            //http9_request.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
            http9_request.overrideMimeType('text/html');
         }
      } else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE
         try {
            http9_request = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
         } catch (e) {
            try {
               http9_request = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
            } catch (e) {}
         }
      }
      if (!http9_request) {
         alert('Cannot create XMLHTTP instance');
         return false;
      }
 
      http9_request.onreadystatechange = alertContentssort;
      http9_request.open('POST', url, true);
      http9_request.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
      http9_request.setRequestHeader("Content-length", parameters.length);
      http9_request.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close");
      http9_request.send(parameters);
   }
 
   function alertContentssort() {
      if(http9_request.readyState==3)
      {
   	  document.getElementById("loadingbar").innerHTML="<img src=\"ajax/ajax-loader.gif\">";
      }
	  if (http9_request.readyState == 4) {
         if (http9_request.status == 200) {
            //alert(http9_request.responseText);
            document.getElementById("loadingbar").innerHTML='';
			result = http9_request.responseText;
            document.getElementById('displaybox2').innerHTML = result;            
         } else {
            alert('There was a problem with the request.');
         }
      }
   }
 
   function geteventsort(obj,theid,page) {
  var poststr =theid + "=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById(theid).value );
	  makePOSTRequest9('ajax/first/'+ page, poststr);
   }