--- a/busui/common.inc.php
+++ b/busui/common.inc.php
@@ -19,18 +19,32 @@
 }
 
 function include_header($pageTitle, $opendiv = true, $geolocate = false) {
+ // this starts the session 
+ session_start(); 
+ 
     // if (isDebug()) // set php error level high
     echo '
 <!DOCTYPE html> 
 <html> 
 	<head> 
-	<title>bus.lambdacomplex.org - '.$pageTitle.'</title> 
+	<title>busness time - '.$pageTitle.'</title> 
 	';
-         if (isDebug()) echo '<link rel="stylesheet"  href="jquery-mobile-1.0a2.css" />
-        <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-mobile-1.0a2.js"></script>';
-         else echo '<link rel="stylesheet"  href="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.0a2/jquery.mobile-1.0a2.min.css" />
-        <script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.0a2/jquery.mobile-1.0a2.min.js"></script>';
+         if (isDebug()) echo '<link rel="stylesheet"  href="css/jquery-mobile-1.0a3.css" />
+         <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.5.js"></script>
+        <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-mobile-1.0a3.js"></script>';
+         else echo '<link rel="stylesheet"  href="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.0a3/jquery.mobile-1.0a3.css" />
+        <script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.5.js"></script>
+        <script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.0a3/jquery.mobile-1.0a3.js"></script>';
 echo '
+<link rel="stylesheet"  href="css/jquery.ui.datepicker.mobile.css" />
+	<script> 
+		//reset type=date inputs to text
+		$( document ).bind( "mobileinit", function(){
+			$.mobile.page.prototype.options.degradeInputs.date = true;
+		});	
+	</script> 
+	<script src="js/jQuery.ui.datepicker.js"></script> 
+	<script src="js/jquery.ui.datepicker.mobile.js"></script> 
      <style type="text/css">
      .ui-navbar {
      padding-bottom: 18px;
@@ -133,15 +147,21 @@
 
 function midnight_seconds_to_time($seconds)
 {
+if ($seconds > 0) {
 	$midnight = mktime (0, 0, 0, date("n"), date("j"), date("Y"));
 	return date("h:ia",$midnight+$seconds);
+} else {
+return "";
+}
 }
 function getPage($url)
 {
     $ch = curl_init($url);
 curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 );
 curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0 );
+          curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,30); 
 $page = curl_exec($ch);
+ if(curl_errno($ch)) echo "<font color=red> Database temporarily unavailable: ".curl_errno($ch)." ".curl_error($ch)."</font>";
 curl_close($ch);
 return $page;
 }
@@ -328,6 +348,9 @@
     if($case){return (strcmp(substr($haystack, strlen($haystack) - strlen($needle)),$needle)===0);}
     return (strcasecmp(substr($haystack, strlen($haystack) - strlen($needle)),$needle)===0);
 }
+function bracketsMeanNewLine($input) {
+    return str_replace(")","</small>",str_replace("(","<br><small>",$input));
+}
 ?>
   
 

