//document.write ('Loading...
');
//document.write('');
// Check for default News Cookie & set defaultNews to appropriate news category if cookie exists
var newsCookieName = 'NewsCookie';
var newsCookieValue = getNewsCookie(newsCookieName);
var defaultNews = 'LogCabin';
if (newsCookieValue != null && newsCookieValue != "")
defaultNews = newsCookieValue;
// load the news on document load
document.onload = SetNews(defaultNews);
function LoadArticles(h) {
if (h.readyState == 4) {
if (h.status == 200) {
var x = document.getElementById('qNewsDiv');
if (x && h) {
x.innerHTML = h.responseText;
}
}
}
}
function SetNews(x) {
if (setNewsCookie && GetHTTPRequest && LoadArticles) {
setNewsCookie(newsCookieName, x, 365);
var h = GetHTTPRequest();
h.onreadystatechange = function() { LoadArticles(h); };
h.open('GET', 'news.php?source=' + x + '&hidelinks=true', true);
h.send(null);
}
}
function GetHTTPRequest(isXML) {
var httpRequest;
if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari, ...
httpRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
if (isXML) {
if (httpRequest.overrideMimeType) {
httpRequest.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
} }
}
else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE
try {
httpRequest = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
}
catch (e) {
try {
httpRequest = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}
catch (e) {}
}
}
if (!httpRequest) {
alert('Giving up :( Cannot create an XMLHTTP instance');
return false;
}
return httpRequest;
}
function setNewsCookie(c_name,value,expiredays)
{
var exdate=new Date();exdate.setDate(exdate.getDate()+expiredays);
document.cookie=c_name+ "=" +escape(value)+
((expiredays==null) ? "" : ";expires="+exdate.toGMTString());
}
function getNewsCookie(c_name)
{
if (document.cookie.length>0)
{
c_start=document.cookie.indexOf(c_name + "=");
if (c_start!=-1)
{
c_start=c_start + c_name.length+1;
c_end=document.cookie.indexOf(";",c_start);
if (c_end==-1) c_end=document.cookie.length;
return unescape(document.cookie.substring(c_start,c_end));
}
}
return "";
}