function updateCost(newCost){
 	var cost = document.getElementById('cost');
 	cost.innerHTML = 'Cost $'+newCost;

 }//end 

 function submitForm(name){
 	document.forms[name].submit();
 }//end submitForm
 
var http_request = false;
 var targetSpan = '';
 var loadingLocation = '';
   function makePOSTRequest(url, parameters) {
      http_request = false;
      if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari,...
         http_request = new XMLHttpRequest();
         if (http_request.overrideMimeType) {
         	// set type accordingly to anticipated content type
            //http_request.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
            http_request.overrideMimeType('text/html');
         }
      } 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) {
            //alert(http_request.responseText);
            result = http_request.responseText;
            if(document.getElementById(loadingLocation)){
            document.getElementById(loadingLocation).innerHTML = '';
            //document.getElementById(loadingLocation).innerHTML = '<input type="button" value="Get Listings" style="width: 80px;float:left; height: 20px;font-size: 11px;" onmouseup="javascript:getMini()"/>';
            }
            if(document.getElementById(targetSpan)){
            	document.getElementById(targetSpan).innerHTML = result;
            }else {
            	targetSpan.innerHTML = result;
            }            
         //} else {
         //   alert('There was a problem with the request.');
         //}
      }
   }
   
   function ajaxGet(url, span, loader, params) {
   	  
   	  loadingLocation = loader;
   	  if(document.getElementById(loadingLocation)){
	  document.getElementById(loadingLocation).innerHTML = "<img src='loading.gif' />";
   	  }
      var poststr = "search=true&params=" + params;
      targetSpan = span;
      makePOSTRequest(url, poststr);
      
   }
   function checkboxChecker(ckbox){
   		if (ckbox.checked == 1){
   			ajaxGet('billaddressout.php','billspan','', '1');
   		}
   		else{
   			ajaxGet('billaddressout.php','billspan','', '0');
   		}
   		
   }