// Search Form Submit Live Version *****************************************************************
 function searchFormSubmit(form) {

     if (form.aff.value == 'archives' || form.aff[1].checked == true) {

         window.location = "http://www.newslibrary.com/nlsearch.asp?search_mode=all&action=search&date_mode=year&year=last+180+days&sort=d%3Ah&nitems=10&region=kc&dbquery=" + form.keywords.value;
             return false;
   
     } 
     else if (form.aff.value == 'h_archives' || form.aff[2].checked == true) {
         window.location = 'http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=KRHA-KC&p_theme=histpaper&p_action=search&p_queryname=1&p_perpage=10&p_sort=_rank_%3AD&p_bool_base-1=and&p_field_base-1=ProductID&p_text_base-1=1126152C152E4978&p_text_base-0=' + form.keywords.value;

         return false;
     }
     else if (form.aff[3].checked == true || form.aff.value == 'web') {
         var encoded_keywords = encodeURIComponent(form.keywords.value);
         var section_num = '397';
         var url_version = 'ysr';
         var params = 'product=Yahoo%2COverture&' +
                      'collection=WEB&' +
                      'live_template=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kansascity.com%2F' + section_num + '%2Fv-' + url_version + '%2Findex.html&' + 
                      'error_template=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kansascity.com%2F' + section_num + '%2Fv-yerr%2Findex.html&' +
                      'preview_template=http%3A%2F%2Fpreview.kansascity.com%2F' + section_num + '%2Fv-' + url_version + '%2Findex.html&' +
                      'results_per_page=10&' + 
                      'preview=0' +
		      '&prop_related=1&prop_dym=1';
         window.location = "http://search.kansascity.com/search-bin/search.pl.cgi?sf_Keywords=" + encoded_keywords + '&' + params;

         return false;
     }

     return true;
 }
// getParams *******************************************************************
function getParams(params) {
   var Params = new Object ();
   if ( ! params ) return Params; // return empty object
   var Pairs = params.split(/[;&]/);
   for ( var i = 0; i < Pairs.length; i++ ) {
      var KeyVal = Pairs[i].split('=');
      if ( ! KeyVal || KeyVal.length != 2 ) continue;
      var key = unescape( KeyVal[0] );
      var val = unescape( KeyVal[1] );
      val = val.replace(/\+/g, ' ');
      Params[key] = val;
   }
   return Params;

}
// end getParams *****************************************************************

// search **********************************************************************
//function searchFormSubmit(form) {
//	if (form.aff[1].checked == true) {
		// this address needs to be changed once search is set up
//		window.location = "http://www.newslibrary.com/nlsearch.asp?search_mode=all&action=search&date_mode=year&year=last+180+days&sort=d%3Ah&nitems=10&region=kc&dbquery=" + form.keywords.value;
//		return false;
//	} else if (form.aff[2].checked == true) {
//		window.location = "http://www.kansascity.com/cgi-bin/mi/overture/overture.pl?Keywords=" + form.keywords.value;
//		return false;
//	}
//	return true;
//}
// end search ******************************************************************



function today_string() {
	// dependant on date functions defined in mi-utilities.js
	var today = new Date();
	return today.getDayString()+', '+today.getMonthString()+' '+today.getDate()+', '+today.getFullYear();
}