// date stuff used in cached pages
dayofweek= new Array("Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday");
dayofmonth= new Array("","1st","2nd","3rd","4th","5th","6th","7th","8th","9th","10th","11th","12th","13th","14th","15th","16th","17th","18th","19th","20th","21st","22nd","23rd","24th","25th","26th","27th","28th","29th","30th","31st");
months= new Array("January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December");

// returns todays date as a formated string
function theDate(){
	var mydate=new Date();
	var year=mydate.getYear();
	if (year < 1000) year+=1900;
	var day=mydate.getDay();
	var month=mydate.getMonth();
	var daym=mydate.getDate();
	todaysDate="  "+dayofweek[day]+" "+dayofmonth[daym]+" "+months[month]+" "+year;
	return todaysDate;
}

// returns todays date as a formated string
function theYear(){
	var mydate=new Date();
	var year=mydate.getYear();
	if (year < 1000) year+=1900;
	return year;
}
// Search box validation used for both the search box and the main search page
function searchpagevalidate(ref)
{
	var space_re = new RegExp('\\s+');
	var isEmpty = (ref.keyword.value.replace(space_re, '') == '') ? 1 : 0;
	if (!isEmpty)
		{
		return true;
		}
	else
		{
		alert('Need a keyword to search on!');
		return false;
		}		
}
function gotoarticle(sel)
	{
		artID=sel.options[sel.selectedIndex].value;
		if (artID.length > 0){
			aURL="index.aspx?articleid="+artID;
			window.location.href = aURL;
		}
	}
	
//scripts used in the forum template
// check all fields have been entered.
function  _forum_checkThreadForm(_forum_this){
    if  (_forum_this.forum_topic.value.length ==0){
		alert("You must enter a Title.");
		return false;
	}
    if  (_forum_this.forum_username.value.length ==0){
		alert("You must enter your name to post to the forum.");
		return false;
	}
    if  (_forum_this.forum_body.value.length ==0){
		alert("In order to post you need to enter text into the message.");
		return false;
	}
	return true;
} 


// Detect Client Browser type
var isIE  = (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE") != -1) ? true : false;
var isWin = (navigator.appVersion.toLowerCase().indexOf("win") != -1) ? true : false;
var isOpera = (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Opera") != -1) ? true : false;

// JavaScript helper required to detect Flash Player PlugIn version information
function JSGetSwfVer(i){
      // NS/Opera version >= 3 check for Flash plugin in plugin array
      if (navigator.plugins != null && navigator.plugins.length > 0) {
            if (navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash 2.0"] || navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash"]) {
                  var swVer2 = navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash 2.0"] ? " 2.0" : "";
                        var flashDescription = navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash" + swVer2].description;
                        descArray = flashDescription.split(" ");
                        tempArrayMajor = descArray[2].split(".");
                        versionMajor = tempArrayMajor[0];
                  if ( descArray[3] != "" ) {
                        tempArrayMinor = descArray[3].split("r");
                  } else {
                        tempArrayMinor = descArray[4].split("r");
                  }
                        versionMinor = tempArrayMinor[1] > 0 ? tempArrayMinor[1] : 0;
                        flashVer = parseFloat(versionMajor + "." + versionMinor);
            } else {
                  flashVer = -1;
            }
      }
      // MSN/WebTV 2.6 supports Flash 4
      else if (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("webtv/2.6") != -1) flashVer = 4;
      // WebTV 2.5 supports Flash 3
      else if (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("webtv/2.5") != -1) flashVer = 3;
      // older WebTV supports Flash 2
      else if (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("webtv") != -1) flashVer = 2;
      // Can't detect in all other cases
      else {
            flashVer = -1;
      }
      return flashVer;
}

// If called with no parameters this function returns a floating point value 
// which should be the version of the Flash Player or 0.0 
// ex: Flash Player 6r65 returns 6.65
// If called with reqMajorVer, reqMinorVer this function returns true if that version or greater is installed
function DetectFlashVer(reqMajorVer, reqMinorVer) 
{
      reqVer = parseFloat(reqMajorVer + "." + reqMinorVer);
      // loop backwards through the versions until we find the newest version      
      for (i=25;i>0;i--) {      
            if (isIE && isWin && !isOpera) {;
                  versionStr = VBGetSwfVer(i);
            } else {
                  versionStr = JSGetSwfVer(i);
            }
            if (versionStr == -1) {
					return false;
			  } else if (versionStr != 0) {
                  if(isIE && isWin && !isOpera) {
                        tempArray = versionStr.split(" ");
                        tempString = tempArray[1];
                        versionArray = tempString .split(",");
                        
                        versionMajor = versionArray[0];
                        versionMinor   = versionArray[2];
                        
                        versionString = versionMajor + "." + versionMinor;
                        versionNum = parseFloat(versionString);
                  } else {
                         versionNum = versionStr;
                  }
                  return (versionNum >= reqVer ? true : false );            
            }
      }
      
      return (reqVer ? false : 0.0);
}

// Set-up external links for XHTML where the target attribute has been deprecated
function externalLinks() { 
	 if (!document.getElementsByTagName) return; 
	 var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName("a"); 
	 for (var i=0; i < anchors.length; i++) { 
		  var anchor = anchors[i]; 
		  if (anchor.getAttribute("href") && anchor.getAttribute("rel") == "external") {
				anchor.target = "_blank"; 
		  }
	 }
	 var forms = document.getElementsByTagName("form");
	 for (var j=0; j <forms.length; j++)
	 {
		  var form = forms[j];
		  if (form.getAttribute("id") != null && form.getAttribute("id").indexOf("pollform") == 0)
		  {
				form.target = "_blank";
		  }
	 }
}

function togglePane(element, hidetext, showtext, paneid) {
	var pane = Ext.get(paneid);
	if (pane) {
		pane.setVisibilityMode(Ext.Element.DISPLAY);
		pane.toggle();
		if (element) {
			if (pane.isVisible()) {
				element.innerHTML = hidetext;
			} else {
				element.innerHTML = showtext;
			}
		}
	}
	return false;
}

function prepareContactPanes() {
	var contacts = Ext.select('.contactdetailpane');
	if (contacts) {
		contacts.each(
			function(el,parent,index){
				el.setVisibilityMode(Ext.Element.DISPLAY);
				el.hide();
			}
		);
	}
}