I have inserted a block of javascript in then body of a Joomla 2.5 article.
What I want to achieve is to open a default client email engine in order to send some information there.
The code looks like this:
var sendForm = function() {
...
window.open('mailto:admin#admin.com?subject=mailSubject&body=mailBody');
};
What happens actually, when I load the page is that whatever is after the "?" is broken and appears as plain text in the UI.
For example, I have the following stuff in the UI:
?subject=mailSubject&body=mailBody'); }; window.onload = getTotal();
What is wrong? Can you help me to spot the stuff that I am doing it wrong?
Thanks
It seems that this is a Joomla specific problem. I managed to get over it by using the {emailcloak=off}syntax before the actual email address.
Therefore the code looks like this mailto:{emailcloak=off}some#email.com?subject....
You might want to use ? instead of ?, and & instead of &. If you wish, you can refer to the HTML character numbers and names here.
It will not only solve your problem, but also pass the W3C validator.
Related
so i was wondering is there a way to make a simple javascript shortener like I manually enter the code for javascript. Like This:
If I have a function 12345 {
window.location.href = "http://link.com";
}
12345 being code
and when you type
http://example.com/index.html?q=12345
it redirects to the http://link.com
no php please
You can use the code
window.location.search.replace("?", "");
to find the value that has been passed to GET in the header. From here, you could delimit the q= and get the value for the page you want to view. From here, you could check out this blog on Github for how to edit the URI. Alternatively, you could check out check out pjax or history.js
I have one of those websites that basically gives you a yes or no response to a question posed by the url. An example being http://isnatesilverawitch.com.
My site is more of an in-joke and the answer changes frequently. What I would like to be able to do is store a short one or two word string and be able to change it without editing the source on my site if that is possible using only javascript. I don't want to set up an entire database just to hold a single string.
Is there a way to write to a file without too much trouble, or possibly a web service designed to retrieve and change a single string that I could use to power such a site? I know it's a strange question, but the people in my office will definitely get a kick out of it. I am even considering building a mobile app to manipulate the answer on the fly.
ADDITIONAL:
To be clear I just want to change the value of a single string but I can't just use a random answer. Without being specific, think of it as a site that states if the doctor is IN or OUT, but I don't want it to spit out a random answer, it needs to say IN when he is IN and OUT when he is out. I will change this value manually, but I would like to make the process simple and something I can do on a mobile device. I can't really edit source (nor do I want to) from a phone.
If I understand correctly you want a simple text file that you change a simple string value in and have it appear someplace on your site.
var string = "loading;"
$.get('filename.txt',function(result){
string = result;
// use string
})
Since you don't want to have server-side code or a database, one option is to have javascript retrieve values from a Google Spreadsheet. Tabletop (http://builtbybalance.com/Tabletop/) is one library designed to let you do this. You simply make a public Google Spreadsheet and enable "Publish to web", which gives you a public URL. Here's a simplified version of the code you'd then use on your site:
function init() {
Tabletop.init( { url: your_public_spreadshseet_url,
callback: function (data) {
console.log(data);
},
simpleSheet: true } )
}
Two ideas for you:
1) Using only JavaScript, generate the value randomly (or perhaps based on a schedule, which you can hard code ahead of time once and the script will take care of the changes over time).
2) Using Javascript and a server-side script, you can change the value on the fly.
Use JavaScript to make an AJAX request to a text file that contains the value. Shanimal's answer gives you the code to achieve that.
To change the value on the fly you'll need another server-side script that writes the value to some sort of data store (your text file in this case). I'm not sure what server-side scripting (e.g. PHP, Perl, ASP, Python) runtime you have on your web server, but I could help you out with the code for PHP where you could change the value by pointing to http://yoursite.com/changeValue.php?Probably in a browser. The PHP script would simply write Probably to the text file.
Though javascript solution is possible it is discouraged. PHP is designed to do such things like changing pieces of sites randomly. Assuming you know that, I will jump to javascript solution.
Because you want to store word variation in a text file, you will need to download this file using AJAX or store it in .js file using array or string.
Then you will want to change the words. Using AJAX will make it possible to change the words while page is loaded (so they may, but do not have to, change in front of viewers eyes).
Changing page HTML
Possible way of changing (words are in array):
wordlist.js
var status = "IN"; //Edit IN to OUT whenever you want
index.html
<script src="wordlist.js"></script>
<div>Doctor is <span id="changing">IN</span></div>
<script>
function changeWord(s) { //Change to anything
document.getElementById("changing").innerHTML = s;
}
changeWord(status); //Get the status defined in wordlist.js
</script>
Reloading from server
If you want to change answer dynamically and have the change effect visible on all open pages, you will need AJAX or you will have to make browser reload the word list, as following:
Reloading script
function reloadWords() {
var script = document.createElement("script"); //Create <script>
script.type="text/javascript";
script.src = "wordlist.js"; //Set the path
script.onload = function() {changeWord(status)}; //Change answer after loading
document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(script); //Append to <head> so it loads as script. Can be appended anywhere, but I like to use <head>
}
Using AJAX
Here we assume use of text file. Simplest solution I guess. With AJAX it looks much like this:
http = ActiveXObject==null?(new XMLHttpRequest()):(new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"));
http.onloadend = function() {
document.getElementById("changing").innerHTML = this.responseText; //Set the new response, "IN" or "OUT"
}
http.open("GET", "words.txt")
http.send();
Performance of AJAX call may be improved using long-poling. I will not introduce this feature more here, unless someone is interested.
I have a script that loads the code dynamically. It is kind of a search engine. When I press a search button, the action gets triggered and a new page opens with many parameters.
I want to override one of the parameters generated with the script in the new URL. JS code is quite big and hard to read, but I have found the important part in the Firebug DOM editor.
This is the pattern of the URL generated when you perform the search:
http://www.example.com/...?ParameterOne=123&ParameterTwo=Two&ThisParameter=Sth&ParameterFour=Four...
What I want to edit is "ThisParameter" and change its value. This is the part edited in the DOM that does what I want:
Foobar = {
_options: [],
...
var options = {"ParameterOne":123,"ParameterTwo":"Two","ThisParameter":"ABC","ParameterFour":Four,...}
...
And this is the output of "ThisParameter" when you choose "Copy path" in Firebug's DOM tab:
_options[0].ThisParameter
I am wondering it this is possible at all. What makes me think that it is, is the fact that I can change this parameter in Firebug and it works perfectly. So, if Firebug can edit it, there should be a way to influence it with another script.
Looking forward to any suggestions, thank you in advance!
Since you cannot edit the dynamic script you have the following options:
You have to try to give the script the correct input and hope it uses your value.
Add a script to the results page which will read the url and arguments, change it and redirect, as we discussed here. (If you put everything in functions it should not conflict with the dynamic script if the functions are uniquely named.)
You could try adding something like this jQuery code to the page with the search button:
$('input[name=search_button_name]').click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
var form_search = $('#search_form_id');
$('<input>').attr({
type: 'hidden',
name: 'ThisParameter',
value: 'SomethingElse'
}).appendTo(form_search);
f.submit();
});
You can override any js function and method, or wrap you code around it. The easiest thing would be to look at the code you get and once it gets loaded, you re-declare a method with your own functionality.
I you are trying to replace a parameter in a specific jquery request, you can even wrap around the jquerys ajax method:
var jquery_ajax = $.ajax
$.ajax = function(options){
// parse only a specific occurence
if(options.url.indexOf("example.com") > -1) {
// change the url/params object - depending on where the parameter is
options.params.ThisParameter = "My Custom value"
}
// call the original jquery ajax function
jquery_ajax(options);
}
But it would be a lot cleaner to override the method that builds the ajax request rather than the ajax request itself.
I would investigate further on the scope of the variable options (var options), is it global? i.e. if you type 'options' in the Firebug console, does it display its properties?
If so, you could then access it via your own script and change is value, e.g.
options.ThisParameter = 'my-own-value';
You might hook your script to the click event of the search button.
I hope this helps, it could be more specific maybe if you have some sample code somewhere.
I'd like to use JavaScript with JQuery to extract a title from an HTML page, as in
$.get('page.html', function(text) {
var pagetitle = $(text).title;
});
so that when the user input a URL into a text box, I can show the title in another textbox. But this won't work if the page is outside my domain, like www.google.com, because of the Same Origin Policy. Is there some other way to achieve this functionality? It's not a crucial functionality, but I'd like to ask just in case there's some way.
You'd have to have a server-side "proxy" which goes out and fetches the page, then returns it to jQuery for processing. If you're running this in a client environment (i.e. a plain HTML file on your local PC), then there really isn't an easy way to do this.
A basic PHP script would look something like this:
<?php
echo file_get_contents($_REQUEST["url"]);
?>
Note: this is a basic demo of what you're asking for. Just this by itself could well present security risks of some sort. A better way to do this is presented in this article.
Also, though I haven't run your code, I feel like it should be more like this:
$.get('page.html', function(text) {
var pagetitle = $(text).find("title").text();
}, "html");
You can solve it!
<script src="http://kincrew.github.com/xReader/xReader.full.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
xReader("http://www.google.com", "title/text()", function(data) {
alert(data.content);
})
</script>
Take a look at xReader
Is it possible, if one has a javascript variable like this:
var myVariable = "alert('BAM! It works!');"
to send it to an html page that has a script tag in, in other words, looks like this:
<script id="theScriptTag"></script>
and by 'sending' I mean going like this in the Javascript file:
getElementById("theScriptTag").innerHTML = myVariable;
Now maybe people normally don't do this. If there's another way to get a Javascript variable to an HTML page please don't hessitate to tell. It's difficult for me to explain why I would like to do it like this, only that I need to do it like this.
Thanks in advance!
EDIT...
From all the comments I can see this is some serious bad practice. Let me give you the over view and 'bigger picture' here... On the very same HTML page there is a form, and a div. Now right after a user fills out the form and submits it, it goes to the server and 'custom javascript' is generated depending on the variable the user selected. This custom javascript is then intended to go back to the client and execute. When it executes is creates/fills up a div element that then contains a google charts table (thus needed to get generated server side). The JS that needs to be executed looks like this:
var sendAttemptsChartTableData, sendAttemptsChartTable;
google.load('visualization', '1', {packages:['table']})
google.setOnLoadCallback(drawTable);
function drawTable() {
sendAttemptsChartTableData = new google.visualization.DataTable();
sendAttemptsChartTableData.addColumn('string','smsGuid')
sendAttemptsChartTableData.addColumn('string','attemptNo')
sendAttemptsChartTableData.addColumn('string','response')
sendAttemptsChartTableData.addColumn('string','error')
sendAttemptsChartTableData.addRows(1)
sendAttemptsChartTableData.setCell(0,0,'092A49AA-E2EF-46D3-A83E-0932B17B649A')
sendAttemptsChartTableData.setCell(0,1,'1')
sendAttemptsChartTableData.setCell(0,2,'<aatsms><submitresult action="enqueued" key="2066317199" result="1" number="0833756610"/><submitresult action="enqueued" key="2066317200" result="1" number="0833756610"/><submitresult action="enqueued" key="2066317201" result="1" number="0833756610"/><submitresult action="enqueued" key="2066317202" result="1" number="0833756610"/></aatsms>')
sendAttemptsChartTableData.setCell(0,3,'')
sendAttemptsChartTable = new google.visualization.Table(document.getElementById('sendAttemptsTable'));
var view = new google.visualization.DataView(sendAttemptsChartTableData);
sendAttemptsChartTable.draw(view, {showRowNumber: true, allowHtml:false});
google.visualization.events.addListener(sendAttemptsChartTable, 'select', smsSearchHandler);
}
Based on your edit I understand your form sumbission results in a custom script. Would a JSONP-like solution work? Basically you can create a script tag in your current document, pointing its source to a server side script that processes the form and returns the code.
A basic example:
function getScript(){
/**process form, generate params**/
var nwScript = document.createElement('script');
nwScript.src = '/myscriptsrc/somescript.php?'+[generated parameters];
document.body.appendChild(nwScript);
}
If your goal is to execute the javascript code contained in the string, you can use the following :
var myVariable = "alert('BAM! It works!');";
eval(myVariable);
What you are trying to do is essentially this:
var myVariable = "alert('BAM! It works!');";
eval(myVariable);
eval takes the string you provide and "evaluates" the content - it executes the javascript stuff you provide in the string. Normally you want to do this with input from the user.
But this is considered bad habit, because:
it is slow
it is unsecure
Usually you can go another way, so you don't need to use eval. In most cases this is cleaner, faster and more secure.
Perhaps you could tell, WHAT you are trying to achieve, and then we can find a better solution.