var xmlHttp;
var completed_state = false;

function alerter()
{
	alert('this is an alert from the slider ajax file');
}

function loadSlider(start, end)
{	
	xmlHttp=GetXmlHttpObject()
	
	if (xmlHttp==null)
	{
		 alert ("Browser does not support HTTP Request")
		 return
	}

	var url="http://blog.entrepreneur.com/slider.php?start=" + start + "&end=" + end; 
	
	//alert(url);
	
	xmlHttp.onreadystatechange=stateChanged 
	xmlHttp.open("GET",url,true);
	xmlHttp.send(null);
}

function stateChanged() 
{ 
	if (xmlHttp.readyState==4 || xmlHttp.readyState=="complete")
	{ 
		document.getElementById("ajaxsliderid").innerHTML=xmlHttp.responseText;
		completed_state = true;
		
		
	}
	else if(xmlHttp.readyState==1 && completed_state) // Waiting for ajax response
	{
		var text = "<div id=\"my-glider\" style=\"background:#f2f0f1 url(http://blog.entrepreneur.com/images/slider_shadow.gif) bottom left repeat-x;\"><table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" style=\"padding-top:10px;\"><tr><td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\"><img src=\"http://blog.entrepreneur.com/images/now_featured.gif\" alt=\"Now Featured\" style=\"margin:20px 0 0 10px;\" /></td><td><div class=\"scroller\"><div id=\"content\" class=\"content\">";
		
		text += "<img src=\"http://blog.entrepreneur.com/images/ajaxloading.gif\" border=\"0\">";
		
		text += "</div></div></td><td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-right:5px;\"><a href=\"#\" onClick=\"my_glider.previous();return false;\" onmouseout=\"MM_swapImgRestore()\" onmouseover=\"MM_swapImage('previous','','http://blog.entrepreneur.com/images/prev_button.jpg',0)\"><img src=\"http://blog.entrepreneur.com/images/prev_button_off.jpg\" name=\"previous\" border=\"0\" id=\"previous\" /></a><a class=\"pagingbuttons\" href=\"#\" onClick=\"my_glider.previous();return false;\" title=\"Previous\"></a><div style=\"margin-top:6px;\"><a href=\"#\" onClick=\"my_glider.next();return false\" onmouseout=\"MM_swapImgRestore()\" onmouseover=\"MM_swapImage('next','','http://blog.entrepreneur.com/images/next_button.jpg',0)\"><img src=\"http://blog.entrepreneur.com/images/next_button_off.jpg\" name=\"next\" border=\"0\" id=\"next\" /></a></div></td></tr></table><script type=\"text/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"> var my_glider = new Glider('my-glider', {duration:0.5});	</script></div>";
		
		document.getElementById("ajaxsliderid").innerHTML=text;
	}
	else {}


}

function GetXmlHttpObject()
{
	var xmlHttp=null;
	
	try
	 {
		 // Firefox, Opera 8.0+, Safari
		 xmlHttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
	 }
	 
	catch (e)
	 {
		 //Internet Explorer
		 try
		  {
			xmlHttp=new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
		  }
		 catch (e)
		  {
			xmlHttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
		  }
	 }
	 
	return xmlHttp;
}