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What is necessary to run JavaScript files from MS Server 2003?

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When you say "... everything that uses JavaScript ... doesn't work", what behavior do you see? Are you sure the required JavaScript files are loading? What browser are you using? Do you see any errors? Does the server side functionality work and this is just a client side issue?

I would highly recommend using Firebug to make sure the JavaScript files are indeed loading, and check the Firebug console for any JavaScript errors. Edit your question and post any JavaScript errors you see, and that will aid people in answering your question.

EDIT: Based on the JavaScript errors you posted, I see two things:

var chat_path = <?="'$chat_path'"; ?>;. If Firebug/the browser can see PHP tags, it means PHP is either not running or not properly configured. View the page source and see if you see any <?php tags. If you do, PHP isn't running. It could just be the case that PHP short tags are off, and those might need to be turned on.
imageButtonAdd is not defined. This means that the JavaScript function imageButtonAdd is, well, not defined :-) Most likely this is because the JavaScript file for the chat application is not installed properly. View source and look for any <script src="..."> tags and make sure all URLs are valid. Check Firebug's "Net" tab and see if any JavaScript includes are generating 404 Not Found errors.

Josh 2010-05-19 16:52:35

Beat me by 22 seconds :) deleting mine.

Pekka 2010-05-19 16:53:27

@Pekka haha I should have guessed you were answering when I saw you commenting :-)

Josh 2010-05-19 16:56:09

Also, the Firefox "TamperData" extension (or one like it) is handy for checking to see whether targets of `<script>` tags are actually being loaded.

Pointy 2010-05-19 17:17:15

1. The browser sees no PHP tags. So PHP should work correctly.2. I checked everything. All URLs are valid! And they must be valid, because the same code works on my Mac... :(

Daniel 2010-05-19 20:13:55

@Daniel when you say "the browser sees no PHP tags", does that mean that your firebug copy+past is outdated? Because there are PHP tags in there.

Pekka 2010-05-19 20:21:37

@Pekka:Sorry, you are right. There are PHP tags. I just looked for "<?php"...

Daniel 2010-05-19 20:30:55

@Daniel the `.js` file extension is probably not being parsed by PHP. If you can, the easiest way would be to rename the files to `.php` and send a header(): `header("Content-type: text/javascript")` so they get interpreted as proper Javascript.

Pekka 2010-05-19 20:32:45

Found the problem. I'm so stupid. The short_open_tag was off. o_O Thanks a lot everyone for the help!

Daniel 2010-05-19 20:44:19

@Daniel: Ah ha, I thought so! Glad you fixed it :-)

Josh 2010-05-19 20:46:49

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