function makeRequest(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 = resultContents;
      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 resultContents() {
      if (http_request.readyState == 4) {
         if (http_request.status == 200) {
            //alert(http_request.responseText);
            result = http_request.responseText;

document.getElementById(''+updateDiv+'').innerHTML = result;            
func;
//finishFunction();

} else {
            alert('There was a problem with the request.');
         }
      }
   }
   
   
   // Call ajax..
   function doRequest(url,obj,id,responseArea,finishFunction) {

  updateDiv=""+responseArea+"";
//var poststr = "&st=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("st").value );
   var poststr = "";
                  //  "&message=" + encodeURI( "World" );
	 
	 makeRequest(url+'?pid='+id, poststr);
func=finishFunction;
//	alert(func);
}
function appearFade() {
alert("doing it");
//setTimeout("blinderUp()", 0);
//setTimeout("fadeIn()", 5000);
}

function initGallery() {
doRequest('g.php','this.parentNode',1,'gallery_ajaxCall');
}
 //// called using doRequest('g.php','this.parentNode',1,'gallery_ajaxCall',appearFade); /// appearFade being the function i want to call