var webUrl = {
 
	// public method for url encoding
		//return escape(this._utf8_encode(string));
	encode : function (string) {
		return this._utf8_encode(string);
	},
 
	// public method for url decoding
	decode : function (string) {
		return this._utf8_decode(unescape(string));
	},
 
	// private method for UTF-8 encoding
	_utf8_encode : function (string) {
		string = string.replace(/\r\n/g,"\n");
		var utftext = "";
 
		for (var n = 0; n < string.length; n++) {
 
			var c = string.charCodeAt(n);
 
			if (c < 128) {
				utftext += String.fromCharCode(c);
			}
			else if((c > 127) && (c < 2048)) {
				utftext += '%26%23'+c+'%3B';
				//utftext += String.fromCharCode((c >> 6) | 192);
				//utftext += String.fromCharCode((c & 63) | 128);
			}
			else {
				utftext += '%26%23'+c+'%3B';
				//utftext += String.fromCharCode((c >> 12) | 224);
				//utftext += String.fromCharCode(((c >> 6) & 63) | 128);
				//utftext += String.fromCharCode((c & 63) | 128);
			}
 
		}
 
		return utftext;
	},
 
	// private method for UTF-8 decoding
	_utf8_decode : function (utftext) {
		var string = "";
		var i = 0;
		var c = c1 = c2 = 0;
 
		while ( i < utftext.length ) {
 
			c = utftext.charCodeAt(i);
 
			if (c < 128) {
				string += String.fromCharCode(c);
				i++;
			}
			else if((c > 191) && (c < 224)) {
				c2 = utftext.charCodeAt(i+1);
				string += String.fromCharCode(((c & 31) << 6) | (c2 & 63));
				i += 2;
			}
			else {
				c2 = utftext.charCodeAt(i+1);
				c3 = utftext.charCodeAt(i+2);
				string += String.fromCharCode(((c & 15) << 12) | ((c2 & 63) << 6) | (c3 & 63));
				i += 3;
			}
 
		}
 
		return string;
	}
 
}

	function getXMLHTTP() { //fuction to return the xml http object
		var xmlhttp=false;	
		try{
			xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
		}
		catch(e)	{		
			try{			
				xmlhttp= new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
			}
			catch(e){
				try{
				xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
				}
				catch(e1){
					xmlhttp=false;
				}
			}
		}
		 	
		return xmlhttp;
	}
	
	function filterProvince(country,category,code,goselect,mysunnyhomes,user_id) {
		mysunnyhomes = typeof(mysunnyhomes) != 'undefined' ? mysunnyhomes : 0;
		user_id = typeof(user_id) != 'undefined' ? user_id : 0;
		if (mysunnyhomes) {
			getProvince('../../scripts/findprovince_mysunnyhomes.php?sw=260&country='+urlencode(country)+'&code='+code+'&goselect='+webUrl.encode(goselect));
		} else {
			getProvince('../../scripts/findprovince.php?sw=260&country='+urlencode(country)+'&user_id='+urlencode(user_id)+'&category='+urlencode(category)+'&code='+code+'&goselect='+webUrl.encode(goselect));
		}
		//alert(goselect.substr(0,1));
		//alert(encodeURIComponent(goselect));
		//alert(webUrl.encode(goselect));
	}

	function filterCity(province,category,code,goselect,mysunnyhomes,user_id) {
		mysunnyhomes = typeof(mysunnyhomes) != 'undefined' ? mysunnyhomes : 0;
		user_id = typeof(user_id) != 'undefined' ? user_id : 0;
		if (mysunnyhomes) {
			getCity('../../scripts/findcity_mysunnyhomes.php?sw=260&lang='+urlencode(siteLang)+'&province='+urlencode(province)+'&code='+code+'&goselect='+webUrl.encode(goselect));
		} else {
			getCity('../../scripts/findcity.php?sw=260&lang='+urlencode(siteLang)+'&province='+urlencode(province)+'&user_id='+urlencode(user_id)+'&category='+urlencode(category)+'&code='+code+'&goselect='+webUrl.encode(goselect));
		}
	}
	
	function getProvince(strURL) {		
		var req = getXMLHTTP();
		if (req) {
			req.onreadystatechange = function() {
				if (req.readyState == 4) {
					// only if "OK"
					if (req.status == 200) {						
						document.getElementById('provincediv').innerHTML=req.responseText;						
					} else {
						alert("There was a problem while using XMLHTTP:\n" + req.statusText);
					}
				}				
			}			
			req.open("GET", strURL, true);
			req.send(null);
		}
	}

	function getCity(strURL) {		
		var req = getXMLHTTP();
		if (req) {
			req.onreadystatechange = function() {
				if (req.readyState == 4) {
					// only if "OK"
					if (req.status == 200) {						
						document.getElementById('citydiv').innerHTML=req.responseText;						
					} else {
						alert("There was a problem while using XMLHTTP:\n" + req.statusText);
					}
				}				
			}			
			req.open("GET", strURL, true);
			req.send(null);
		}
	}
	
function urlencode( str ) {
    // URL-encodes string
    // 
    // +    discuss at: http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/techblog/article/javascript_equivalent_for_phps_urlencode/
    // +       version: 901.1411
    // +   original by: Philip Peterson
    // +   improved by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
    // +      input by: AJ
    // +   improved by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
    // +   improved by: Brett Zamir
    // %          note: info on what encoding functions to use from: http://xkr.us/articles/javascript/encode-compare/
    // *     example 1: urlencode('Kevin van Zonneveld!');
    // *     returns 1: 'Kevin+van+Zonneveld%21'
    // *     example 2: urlencode('http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/');
    // *     returns 2: 'http%3A%2F%2Fkevin.vanzonneveld.net%2F'
    // *     example 3: urlencode('http://www.google.nl/search?q=php.js&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a');
    // *     returns 3: 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.nl%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dphp.js%26ie%3Dutf-8%26oe%3Dutf-8%26aq%3Dt%26rls%3Dcom.ubuntu%3Aen-US%3Aunofficial%26client%3Dfirefox-a'
                             
    var histogram = {}, tmp_arr = [];
    var ret = str.toString();
    
    var replacer = function(search, replace, str) {
        var tmp_arr = [];
        tmp_arr = str.split(search);
        return tmp_arr.join(replace);
    };
    
    // The histogram is identical to the one in urldecode.
    histogram["'"]   = '%27';
    histogram['(']   = '%28';
    histogram[')']   = '%29';
    histogram['*']   = '%2A';
    histogram['~']   = '%7E';
    histogram['!']   = '%21';
    histogram['%20'] = '+';
    
    // Begin with encodeURIComponent, which most resembles PHP's encoding functions
    ret = encodeURIComponent(ret);
    
    for (search in histogram) {
        replace = histogram[search];
        ret = replacer(search, replace, ret) // Custom replace. No regexing
    }
    
    // Uppercase for full PHP compatibility
    return ret.replace(/(\%([a-z0-9]{2}))/g, function(full, m1, m2) {
        return "%"+m2.toUpperCase();
    });
    
    return ret;
}