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How to add an variable value in between the hyperlink in javascript

I am sending an email via javascript. In mail.parameter.text property I need to send the hyperlink. In the code below I am hardcoding the url whick looks very lengthy and also I need to add the /dashboard at the end of the url. Any idea on how to shorten the url?
var parent = space.getParent();
var siteGroup = "GROUP_EMAIL_CONTRIBUTORS";
var mail = actions.create("mail");
mail.parameters.to_many = siteGroup;
mail.parameters.subject="New Site Created in Community"
mail.parameters.text=" A new site called " + document.properties.name +"is created.Click http://pc1:8080/share/page/site/"+document.properties.name+"/dashboard"+" to join the site";
//execute action against a document
mail.execute(document);
Sorry if this is a basic question I dont know javascript. This is my entire script and I am not using any html tags in between.

You can change it to something like this, for example:
mail.parameters.text="Click <a href='http://pc1:8080/share/page/site/" + document.properties.name + "/dashboard'>here</a>";
Your link will appear as "here" and nevertheless lead to the URL you specified. Is that what you mean by "shorten the url"?

Please try now.
var url = "Click http://pc1:8080/share/page/site/" + document.properties.name + "/dashboard" + " to join the site";
ail.parameters.text = url;

exchange variables between html files in javascript

I am trying to share variables between two html pages. I am only using javascript and HTML5 to develop a windows 8 app. Based on an image which a user clicks on one page, I want a div on a second page to be populated with that image. Any ideas?
When I click on the image, I am currently calling the following function:
function imageClick(url) {
//var id = parsed.ClientID;
//window.location= url + "?" + id
window.location = url;
}
Then in my html file, I have this line:
<img onclick="imageClick('pages/page2/page2.html')"
data-win-bind="src:image" style="width: 133px; height: 125.5px;">
I was thinking of getting that id in the next page's url (if I were to uncomment the commented lines above) but it's a bit hackky and I don't actually know how to go about executing the retrieval of that on the next page..
Is there a more efficient and easy way of doing this in javascript? Like an equivalent of sessions in php or something?

Javascript does not have session variables because it runs on the client side. You can use URL parameters and cookies in order to achieve the same results.
You can get the URL parameter by using this function:
http://ziemecki.net/content/javascript-parsing-url-parameters

Add the link to the image to the query part of the url when they click. Something like you had in the comment, assuming you don't have a query part already:
function imageClick(url) {
//var id = parsed.ClientID;
window.location= url + "?src=" + url.src;
//window.location = url;
}
The other page can use window.location.search to extract it, strip off the src=. The code would look something like this:
var src = window.location.search;
if (src.indexOf("src=") == 0) {
src = src.substring(4);
}
newPageImageElement.src = src;
Where newPageImageElement is the <img> where you want to display the picture on the second page.

Randomly select file from folder in JS without an array

I have this code to randomly grab a file from a folder path, and load it via jQuery:
var path = '/path-to-files/',
files = ['1.php', '2.php', '3.php', '4.php', '5.php', '6.php'],
i = Math.floor(Math.random()*files.length);
var url = (path+files[i]);
$("#my-div").load(url);
It's great, it works well. But I would prefer a method to randomly grab files from the path without building an array. Is that possible?

You can't get a list of files from a directory using just JavaScript(jQuery is JavaScript), it would have to be handled from the server. You could request a server-file that then returns the content of a random file from a directory.

var i = Math.floor(Math.random() * 6) + 1;
$("#my-div").load('/path-to-files/' + i + '.php');

You'll need to make a server request to get the array of possible files. This is the only way to do this without sticking to a naming convention or a set list of files.

How should I create relative paths in javascript using MVC3?

I am having some difficulty aligning my paths without a hardcode in javascript. I am running an asp.net MVC3 web application.
If my path is of the form
var url = 'http://serverNameHardcode/websiteNameHardcode/service/service?param1=' + param;
Then things work fine when I do
$.get(url,
{},
function (data) {alert('callback success');},'json');
I would like to create a relative path. I tried
var url = 'service/service?param1=' + param;
And this works when I run locally and also in Firefox, but not in IE7. When I publish to the server without the hardcode the callback never fires. I know MVC-3 adds some complexity to routing, but I do not know if it applies to this situation; so, I marked this question as such.
How should I setup my path so I don't need hardcodes?

Just write out the app path as a global js variable from your master view, then compose links as
APPPATH + "path/whatever"

Just had to solve this for one of my jQuery plugins, where it is preferable not to modify anything global (i.e. outside the scope of the plugin use) so I had to disregard the marked answer.
I also found that because I host DEV locally in IIS I could not use a root-relative path (as localhost is not the root).
The solution I came up with extended what I had already started with: a data-controller attribute specifying which controller to use in the element I am applying my plugin to. I find it preferable to data-drive the controller names so the components can be more easily reused.
Previous:
<div data-controller="Section">
Solution:
<div data-controller="#Url.Content("~/Section")">
This injects the server root (e.g. /Test.WindowsAzure.Apr2014/ before the controller name so I wind up with /Test.WindowsAzure.Apr2014/Section which is perfect for then appending actions and other parameters as you have. It also avoids having an absolute path in the output (which takes up extra bytes for no good reason).
In your case use something like:
// Assuming $element points to the element your plugin/code is attached to...
var baseUrl = $element.data('controller');
var url = baseUrl + '/service?param1=' + param;
Update:
Another approach we now use, when we do not mind injecting a global value, is Razor-inject a single global JavaScript variable onto window in the layout file with:
<script>
window.SiteRoot = "#Url.Content("~/")";
</script>
and use it with
var url = window.SiteRoot + '/service?param1=' + param;

One option:
var editLink = '#Url.Action("_EditActivity", "Home")';
$('#activities').load(editLink + "?activityID=" + id);
another example:
var actionURL = '#Url.Action("_DeleteActivity", "Home")';
$('#activities').load(actionURL + "?goalID=" + gID + "&activityID=" + aID);
If you don't need to add to the string:
$('#activities').load('#Url.Action("_Activities", "Home", new { goalID = Model.goalID},null)');

I really need the path to get this to work, maybe its IE7. Who knows. But this worked for me.
Grab the URL and store it somewhere. I chose to implement the data attribute from HTML5.
<div id="websitePath" data-websitePath='#Request.Url.GetLeftPart(System.UriPartial.Authority)#Request.ApplicationPath'></div>
Then when you need to perform some AJAX or otherwise use a URL in javascript you simply refer to the stored value. Also, there are differences in the versions of IIS (not cool if your devbox is IIS5 and your server is IIS7). #Request.ApplicationPath may or may not come back with a '/' appended to the end. So, as a workaround I also trim the last character if it is /. Then include / as part of the url.
var urlprefix = $('#websitePath').data('websitepath');
urlprefix = urlprefix.replace(/\/$/, "");
var url = urlprefix + '/service/service?param1=' + param;

While the accepted answer is correct I would like to add a suggestion (i.e. how I do it).
I am using MVC, and any ajax request goes to a controller. My controllers have services so if a service call is required the controller will take of that.
So what's my point? So if ajax always communicates with a controller, then i would like to let the MVC routing resolve the path for me. So what I write in Javascript for url is something like this:
url: 'controller/action'
This way there is no need for the root path etc...
Also, you can put this in a separate Javascript file and it will also work whereas #Url.Content will need to be called on the view.

random images from a folder

I am trying to rewrite my code below to search a folder for all the images (they will be numbered but there maybe gaps, ie not 1.jpg,2.jpg,3.jpg but instead 1.jpg,15.jpg,60.jpg for this reason i would like to search the folder, put all the images into an array and then pick one randomly each time its looped.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Firstly i am currently specifying image total above the main script below:
imgWidth = 160,
imgHeight = 95,
imgTotal = 22,
total = 0,
tiles;
//create the HTML for the tiles and append that to the bg element
function makeTiles(count){
var html = '', imgNum;
while(count--){
imgNum = Math.floor(Math.random()*imgTotal + 1);
html += "<div class='tile' style='background:url(public/images/portfolio/all/"+imgNum+".jpg) 0 0 no-repeat;' ><img style='opacity:0; filter:alpha(opacity=0);' src='public/images/portfolio/all/"+imgNum+"-c.jpg' alt='' /></div>\r";
}
$bg.append(html);
}

You'll need to create a list of available images with something else than javascript, since it has no filesystem access, even though in the end, you are accessing the images via their url.
Workaround: enable some directory listing for the images, then access this page via javascript, parse the image files and construct an array out of them; but frankly, there are shorter and more robust ways to accomplish this ...
pseudocode ..
$ ls -1 *jpg > imagesfilelist.txt
$ cp imagefilelist.txt /some/publicly/accessible/folder
js/jquery ..
$.get("/some/publicly/accessible/folder/imagefilelist.txt", function(data){
alert("My image files: " + data);
});
...

javascript can not access local folders. point.
I repeat: there is no way you can "search folder" to get "array of images" in JS. You could do that part (server only!) in PHP or such server-side language and return results via AJAX.

To do what you want you need to know what the images are called. JavaScript cannot access folder directly as commented above. You would need to use a server side script to provide an array of the images for the JS to pick at random to do this.

Javascript will not be able to browse folders. What you need to do is to create an array of available images and then select a random one. You could do this using any server side technology (php, rails, java, .net ...).

The way you're trying to do it is a wrong one.But iwth a bit of tricks it could work though, but it's very wrong way to do this kind of things.
You can generate file list with php and feed it to your script. You can even create php script which will generate your script already populated with needed data but it's not the best to do this too.
So, the best ways are:
- create html with list of filenames/images(visible or invisible) by php, then manipulate it by javascript;
- create html and javascript wich will do AJAX query to php script which will return filename list(formated as JSON if you wish).

Why not upload your images to a free hosting site (like Flickr) grab the feed from your image group and select the random image from there?