A page source snippet has the HTML:
Next
I know that the "#" is a placeholder that is handled by Javascript on the page. I believe the relevant Javascript snippet is:
function changepage(start) {
makerequest('/ajax/inventory_search.php', collectformvalues(start));
}
// do not flash the search options when using next/prev - just when the search is changed
function changepageforpagerlink(start) {
doEffectOnAjax = false;
changepage(start);
return false;
}
I need to know if there is a way that I can submit a URL and have the next page's page source returned. Is there a URL that is submitted at all in the above example?
My environment is VBA. I'm not using a browser, just communicating with the server. One thing I thought of is to mimic the "makerequest" function, but I don't know how to do that or if would even work. I know at the heart it's all just sending text to the server and receiving text back so I would think there is a way. . .
Bottom line is that I need to access the page source from the next page via VBA and not using a browser.
you can use JQuery to achieve this:
function changepage(start) {
makerequest('/ajax/inventory_search.php', collectformvalues(start));
}
changes to
function changepage(start) {
$.ajax({
type:POST,
url:"/ajax/inventory_search.php",
}).done(function(){
//do anything when it's done.
});
}
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ive ran into the following Problem and maybe someone can give me a little advice or a way around this. I have the following Problem:
A Partner of my Page provided me with a Code that i should use on my Page, which writes some Content to my Page that i really want.
Unfortunately this Content is only relevant to People living in a certain region.
So i am using the service of an ip-api which returns the region the current user is in and lets me work with that. This is done with a jsonp ajax call.
If the Person is in the right Region the Code should be executed, if he is not, it shouldnt.
The Problem is that the code to be executed contains a document.write. So if i call that code inside of the ip-api callback the document is allready loaded and the document.write will overwrite my page.
So the big Question is: Is there a way to capture the document.write output into a variable like with PHPs output buffer? Or maybe some way to overwrite the content of an iframe instead of the whole Page? Anything that prevents the document.write from overwriting the page and redirects its output into a part of my page would be sufficient.
Thanks for your time :)
PS: this is the code im talking about:
$.ajax({
url: "http://ip-api.com/json/",
dataType: "jsonp",
success: function( response ) {
if(
response["city"]=="Hamburg" ||
response["region"]=="SH" ||
response["region"]=="NW"
){
document.write("Some Content here");
}
}
});
Replace
document.write("Some Content here");
with
$('#my-container').html('Some content here');
I have a below anchor as below
<a onclick="return getFile('/log/sample.log');" href="/log/sample.log" target="_blank"> sample.log </a>
Because at my server, the log directory in href may be not correct. So the function "getFile" would change the href to the correct one after asking the server.
The first click always failed since the link was not correct, then after AJAX process in getFile was finished and the correct href was given, the clicks later on was ok.
The problem is how I forcefully let html wait ever at the first click until the href is changed, then do the query on the server.
Thanks in advance.
I guess my current way could be not in the correct direction by using "onclick" to implement the idea.
You want something like this
$(function() {
//assume you tagged all anchors you want to do this for with class=adjustlink
$('a.adjustlink').click(function(e) {
var thisAnchor = $(this); //save reference for later use
//this will either be true (see below) or undefined (falsy)
if(thisAnchor.data('myapp.linkHasBeenTested')) {
return; //continue on
}
// Stop the link from being navigated (the default for this event)
e.preventDefault();
//I'm assuming this is fetched as text but could just as well be JSON or anything else
$.get('/LinkAdjustment/', thisAnchor.attr('href')).done(function(result) {
thisAnchor.attr('href', result); //set the href
thisAnchor.data('myapp.linkHasBeenTested', true);
thisAnchor.trigger('click');
});
});
});
As an interesting side-note. You might be attempting to do something similar to the way REST is intended to be done. You might consider, first fetching a resource that will tell you up-front what the correct links are.
I would recomend setting the href to # initially. And in your getFile, set the href to the correct value and then programatically click the 'a' on success of your ajax
You will need to find the element to do this. It can either be done by setting an id and then using document.getElementById(), or would be easier to do do this using Jquery selectors, and it even has a .click() you can call after.
If you want persist with this flow make your ajax call synchronous, it will forcibly wait.
But this flow is not suggested, I would have rather updated these hrefs on page load or would have set a default url to my server page, which would then redirect to right log file
I was having many problems trying to find the reason of why my ajax function was not working on Safari, Chrome and sometimes Firefox, but worked very well on IE. I made a little change, and everything start working perfect (in every browser), but I still dont know why, and I want to find out the main reason of this.
I had an Ajax function respuestas() which insert some data on a database. This function is called by some links like this: <a onclick="respuestas()" href="link.html">LINk </a>. So when I click on the link, the function takes the proper information and inserts it on the database and then go to link.html. Again, this only worked for IE.
I insert an alert(xml.responseText) to see the response that i was having. Safari, fireforx and chrome returns an empty alert.
I was tired of changing pages everytime I wanted to test my function, so I add a button calling my function (without going to another webpage) and IT WORKED!. Now, I have something like this: <a onclick="respuestas()" href="#">LINK </a> and put window.location.href="link.html" inside my ajax function, so the change of pages occur after the ajax response is completed, and it is working very well.
But I do not entirely understand why this works and the other way does not.
This because the link element has also it's default listener. So, to prevent any extra action on click, you should prevent default action. The simple way to do this is to return false on click.
<a onclick="respuestas(this); return false;" href="link.html">LINk</a>
And your respuestas in easiest way should be like this:
function respuestas(link) {
/* do what you need here */
window.location.href = link.href;
}
This is pretty primitive, but I believe you'll get the idea.
What's happening here is that your browser was navigating to the next page before repusetas() was able to execute. In order to ensure that your script is going to fire before the browser follows the link, you need to take control of the click event. In jQuery it works like this:
$('a').bind( 'click', function( event ){
event.preventDefault();
repuestas();
var href = $(this).attr('href');
window.location.href = href;
});
Try this Jquery code
function respuestas()
{
$.ajax({
type: "post",
url: "insert.php?data="+data,
success : function(data){
window.location.href="link.html";
},
error : function(){
alert("Could not ");
}
});
}
I use the following script to get the content of the remaining.php.
The drawback is that sometimes it doesn't work or it is kinda slow to display the text. Is there any other way of doing this ?
Thank you
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#SubmitButton").click(function (){
$('#remaining').load('remaining.php');
});
});
You could directly include the contents of remaining.php into the initial markup but make it hidden by applying display:none; style to the #remaining element. Then when the button is clicked simply show it:
$(function() {
$('#SubmitButton').click(function () {
$('#remaining').show();
});
});
Of course if you need to pass some parameters to the script which will depend on some javascript variables that are known only at the moment the button is clicked you will need to use AJAX as you are currently doing.
If "sometimes it doesn't work or it is kinda slow", the problem is probably the server you are using, not your javascript code.
The javascript code you're showing us here doesn't really do anything that could be slow, it only binds an event on a submit button. However, what could be slow is waiting for the answer from your web server when sending a request for remaining.php
From there, there is a thousand of reasons why your web server could be slow. Maybe you could post the content of your remaining.php file so we can see what is going on in there.
This isn't really a fault of jQuery, but the speed of return from your server. Perhaps there's a better way to handle it instead of fetching a full page?
For example, if your content request was only retrieving a message, you could return JSON from your server and have jQuery handle the data:
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#SubmitButton").click(function (){
$.post('remaining.php',
null,
function(data) {
// do stuff with your JSON result
});
});
});
When you're using .load(), you're sending a request to the server to get your content, which is why it can seem slow. I'm not sure why it sometimes won't work , but I would venture to guess that you may be clicking $("#SubmitButton") before $(document).ready fires.
Depending on your implementation, you may be able to refactor your application so that the text you want to display is pre-loaded on the page.
I am using jQuery's Address plugin (website) to enable the back/forward buttons on my website. I would REALLY like to also have the ability for people to bookmark pages and to copy the address from the address bar and share it with friends.
Address claims it can do this, so then what am I doing wrong.
My code is
function BackButton() {
$.address.change(function(event) {
// do something depending on the event.value property, e.g.
// $('#content').load(event.value + '.xml');
});
$('a').click(function() {
$.address.value($(this).attr('href').replace(/^#/, ''));
});
}
BackButton() is then called on every AJAX pageload to ensure it works with the pages loaded by ajax.
Thanks for your help
looks like you copied directly from the example at the plugin's website. your address.change function does nothing, there are only two commented lines in there.
So I used
if ( $.address.value() !== "\/" ) {
window.location = "http://www.domainname.com/" + $.address.value()
}
to redirect the user to the correct page.
So is this correct? Or are their problems with it?
What would be the benefits of using the $.address.init function of jQuery.Address?
Also this forces them to wait until the page (&javascript) is loaded to see any content. comments?