I have to request data for a JS-script from a MySQL database (based upon a user-id). I did not find a simple solution for JavaScript and it was not possible to load the data using ajax, because the database is available under a different domain. I implemented a workaround using PHP and curl. Now the JS has to "wait" for the request...
Howdy y'all, I am looking for a way to include a .js function with in a straight php page. By straight php I mean there is no html included. Explanation of process if you will. I have a page where employees must swipe their ID badge for access to a computer. The employee swipes the badge, the magnetic strip is read, and the data sti...
I am in debug mode, so I can see which page is being hit. When I call either window.location or window.location.replace(..) it goes to the page, but then back to the originating page! How could this be?? The solution was to add: window.location.replace(...); return false; Why does return false make this work properly now?...
Is there a way I can run piece of javascript code ONCE without the use of boolean flag variables to know that it already ran? Specifically not something like: var alreadyRan = false; function runOnce() { if (alreadyRan) { return; } alreadyRan = true; /* do stuff here */ } I'm going to have a lot of these types of funct...
newPercent = 15/30; //result=Math.round(newPercent*100)/100 //returns 28.45 $('#counter').text(newPercent); $('#howMany').text(count); returns back 0.5% which is suppose to be 50.00%... how do I fix this? :S ...
I am trying to get a month range to insert into a CAML query, ie: 2010-09-01 and 2010-09-30. I have used the following code to generate these two values: var month = "10/2010"; var monthArray = month.split("/"); var startDate = new Date(monthArray[1], monthArray[0]-1, 1); var endDate = new Date(startDate); endDate.setMonth(startDate.ge...
Hello i have a problem. I have a page in which i have inside an iframe. In the parent page (not in the iframe), i want to build the browser buttons back, fw, refresh and home page. The back, fw, home page buttons are almost ok. The refresh button doesnt work. The code is below: <a href="javascript:;" onClick="parent.document.getElement...
Hi, I am trying to build a php/mysql website. But in the past, i didn't like the way php handled insert, update, delete, showing of entries. Ever since I have seen AJAX implemented beautifully on so many sites, i want to be able to do the same? I am familiar with how to use PHP to accomplish: DB Insert, Edit, Delete, and show. But ...
All the examples of jQuery.append() seem to take an html string and append it to a container. I have a slightly different use case. My server returns me an XML that contains HTML text to be displayed, something like: <event source="foo"> <contents> <h1>This is an event</h1> This is the body of the event </content...
I know we can attach a handler to the form onsubmit... But how can we add a handler to the form reset event? (usually when clicking on <input type="reset">) Or... Maybe there is no such event... So the question becomes on how to work-around that? (right now, I want to run a handler after the reset event; but someday I might need to run...
Hi Guys! I want to set the value of stat from if else block but when I set it and alert it then it says to me "undefined". How can I set the value of stat. Here is my code. deleteComment = function(postId){ var stat = "Don't Know"; FB.api(postId, 'delete', function(response) { if (!response || response.error) { stat = "Er...
Can someone point out the differences in implementation of ECMAScript 3rd edition in today's browsers? (Chrome, Safari, IE8, FF) Are we safe when using ECMAScript 3 standards (and not the extensions that FF and IE have to JScript and JavaScript)? ...
Hi folks, I would like to get a deeper understanding of the nuances of javascript. Take the function below: str.replace(/(\b[^:]+):'([^']+)'/g, function ($0, param, value) { ret[param] = value; }); Why is there a need for /g? What exactly gets passed into the function? Where do these values come from? Thanks! ...
Sorry for a long question but here goes. I am trying to modify the drag shapes around demo here: http://raphaeljs.com/graffle.html The demo works fine. What I want to do is put words inside the shapes and move the shape and text around as a composite single object. Here is the code for creating the objects: window.onload = function...
This is related to an earlier question. I try to append HTML DOM returned in an AJAX response to an existing DIV. I see all the text, but it seems all markup such as bold, italic, etc is lost. My AJAX (XML) data is like so: <event source="foo"> <contents> <h1>This is an event</h1> This is the body of the event <...
I'm writing a quite complex JavaScript application that has an MVC architecture that I'm implementing using Prototype's Class support and the Module pattern. The application uses AJAX and the Observer pattern. I create my controller instance when the DOM has loaded, pass it a view and some models created from JSON data and away it goes. ...
Hi, I am handling a hyperlink's click event with a JavaScript function. I want to retrieve data from the hyperlink. The page looks like this: <div class="div1"> <div title="Title 1" class="div2"> <p class="p1"><a class="linkJs">The link in question</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="div1"> <div title="Title 2" class="di...
I have a variable to the button below that I would like to replace: <script type="text/javascript"> var btn = window.document.getElementById('btn_fb_1'); </script> <button id="btn_fb_1" type="button">Log into Somewhere<br />(Joe Doe)</button> Using the "btn" variable above, how to I replace the entire element with just text like thi...
Hi all, Could any one explain me the difference between IE and DOM Standard event model in simple terms ? Thanks. ...
post.php?replyto=username&othervariable=value For example, if I click a link with this url, then I want to take the replyto=username value and insert the value in a textbox using jquery. function insertParamIntoField(url, param, field) { var anchor = document.createElement('a'), query; anchor.value = url; query =...