craigslist rss feed - javascript

I'm trying to parse the data from a craigslist rss feed.
This is the feed url - http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/all/index.rss
I'm using jfeed and my code is given below
jQuery(function() {
jQuery.getFeed({
url: 'proxy.php?url=http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/all/index.rss',
success: function(feed) {
jQuery('#result').append('<h2>'
+ feed.title
+ '</h2>');
}
});
});
However, I don't get the feed title displayed or any other property of the feed. If i just try to print out the feed to the screen, I get 'Object Object' which means it correctly returned the feed.
Anybody know what I am missing?

First: You can't fetch data from another domain because the crossdomain policy. I don't know about jfeed but in my projects i came up with this Solution. With this simple function you can save some bandwidth and code overhead.
Working Example
http://intervisual.de/stackoverflow/fetchxml/index.html
proxy.php (src: http://jquery-howto.blogspot.com/2009/04/cross-domain-ajax-querying-with-jquery.html)
<?php
// Set your return content type
header('Content-type: application/xml');
// Website url to open
$daurl = 'http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/all/index.rss';
// Get that website's content
$handle = fopen($daurl, "r");
// If there is something, read and return
if ($handle) {
while (!feof($handle)) {
$buffer = fgets($handle, 4096);
echo $buffer;
}
fclose($handle);
}
?>
jQuery
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: "proxy.php",
dataType: "xml",
success: parseXml
});
function parseXml(xml) {
console.log(xml);
$(xml).find("item").each(function() {
var content = $(this).find("title").text()
$("#news_list").append('<li>' + content +'</li>');
});
}
HTML
<div id="news_list"></div>

Alternatively you could use some other service to read the RSS feed and convert it to JSON, which is extremely useful if you don't have access to any server side environment.
To do this, I usually use YQL, but there are definitely other services out there.
Here is a working example using craigslist with the source: http://jsfiddle.net/soparrissays/NFSaq/2/

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Passing data with POST with AJAX

I'm trying to POST some data to another page with AJAX but no info is going, i'm trying to pass the values of two SELECT (Dropdown menus).
My AJAX code is the following:
$('#CreateHTMLReport').click(function()
{
var DeLista = document.getElementById('ClienteDeLista').value;
var AteLista = document.getElementById('ClienteParaLista').value;
$.ajax(
{
url: "main.php",
type: "POST",
data:{ DeLista : DeLista , AteLista : AteLista },
success: function(data)
{
window.location = 'phppage.php';
}
});
});
Once I click the button with ID CreateHTMLReport it runs the code above, but it's not sending the variables to my phppage.php
I'm getting the variables like this:
$t1 = $_POST['DeLista'];
$t2 = $_POST['ParaLista'];
echo $t1;
echo $t2;
And got this error: Notice: Undefined index: DeLista in...
Can someone help me passing the values, I really need to be made like this because I have two buttons, they are not inside one form, and when I click one of them it should redirect to one page and the other one to another page, that's why I can't use the same form to both, I think. I would be great if someone can help me with this, on how to POST those two values DeLista and ParaLista.
EDIT
This is my main.php
$('#CreateHTMLReport').on('click',function() {
$.ajax({
// MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THIS PAGE CREATED!!
url: "main.php",
type: "POST",
data:{
// You may as well use jQuery method for fetching values
DeLista : $('#ClienteDeLista').val(),
AteLista : $('#ClienteParaLista').val()
},
success: function(data) {
// Use this to redirect on success, this won't get your post
// because you are sending the post to "main.php"
window.location = 'phppage.php';
// This should write whatever you have sent to "main.php"
//alert(data);
}
});
});
And my phppage.php
if(!empty($_POST['DeLista'])) {
$t1 = $_POST['DeLista'];
# You should be retrieving "AteLista" not "ParaLista"
$t2 = $_POST['AteLista'];
echo $t1.$t2;
# Stop so you don't write the default text.
exit;
}
echo "Nothing sent!";
And I'm still getting "Nothing Sent".
I think you have a destination confusion and you are not retrieving what you are sending in terms of keys. You have two different destinations in your script. You have main.php which is where the Ajax is sending the post/data to, then you have phppage.php where your success is redirecting to but this is where you are seemingly trying to get the post values from.
/main.php
// I would use the .on() instead of .click()
$('#CreateHTMLReport').on('click',function() {
$.ajax({
// MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THIS PAGE CREATED!!
url: "phppage.php",
type: "POST",
data:{
// You may as well use jQuery method for fetching values
DeLista : $('#ClienteDeLista').val(),
AteLista : $('#ClienteParaLista').val()
},
success: function(data) {
// This should write whatever you have sent to "main.php"
alert(data);
}
});
});
/phppage.php
<?php
# It is prudent to at least check here
if(!empty($_POST['DeLista'])) {
$t1 = $_POST['DeLista'];
# You should be retrieving "AteLista" not "ParaLista"
$t2 = $_POST['AteLista'];
echo $t1.$t2;
# Stop so you don't write the default text.
exit;
}
# Write a default message for testing
echo "Nothing sent!";
You have to urlencode the data and send it as application/x-www-form-urlencoded.

Header PHP not working after AJAX call from Javascript

so, this is probably a dumb question, but is it possible to execute the header function in a php file if I'm getting a response with AJAX?
In my case, I have a login form that gets error codes from the PHP script (custom error numbers hardcoded by me for testing) through AJAX (to avoid reloading the page) and alerts the associated message with JS, but if the username and password is correct, I want to create a PHP cookie and do a redirect. However I think AJAX only allows getting data, right?
This is my code:
JS
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: 'validate.php',
data: $this.serialize(),
success: function(response) {
var responseCode = parseInt(response);
alert(codes[responseCode]);
}
});
PHP
if(empty($user)){
echo 901;
}else{
if(hash_equals($user->hash, crypt($password, $user->hash))){
setCookie(etc...); //this is
header('admin.php'); //what is not executing because I'm using AJAX
}else{
echo 902;
}
}
Please sorry if the question doesn't even make sense at all but I couldn't find a solution. Thanks in advance!
EDIT: I did not include the rest of the code to avoid complicating stuff, but if you need it for giving an anwser I'll add it right away! (:
You're right, you can't intermix like that. The php would simply execute right away, since it has no knowledge of the javascript and will be interpreted by the server at runtime, whereas the js will be interpreted by the browser.
One possible solution is to set a cookie with js and redirect with js as well. Or you could have the server that receives the login request set the cookie when the login request succeeds and have the js do the redirect after it gets a successful response from the server.
You can't do like that because ajax request process in backed and return the particular response and if you want to store the cookies and redirect then you should do it in javascript side while you get the response success
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: 'validate.php',
data: $this.serialize(),
success: function(response) {
var responseCode = parseInt(response);
alert(codes[responseCode]);
window.location = "admin.php";
}
});
if(empty($user)){
setCookie(etc...); //this is
echo 901;
}else{
if(hash_equals($user->hash, crypt($password, $user->hash))){
echo response// what every you want to store
}else{
echo 902;
}
}
If the ajax response satisfies your condition for redirection, you can use below:
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: 'validate.php',
data: $this.serialize(),
success: function(response) {
var responseCode = parseInt(response);
alert(codes[responseCode]);
window.location="%LINK HERE%";
}
});
It's kind of ironic that you use ajax to avoid loading the page, but you'll be redirecting in another page anyway.
test sending data in json format:
Javascript
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: 'validate.php',
data: $this.serialize(),
success: function(response) {
if(response.success){
window.location="%LINK HERE%";
}else{
var responseCode = parseInt(response.code);
alert(responseCode);
...
}
}
});
PHP
header("Content-type: application/json");
if(empty($user)){
echo json_encode(['success' => false, 'code' => 901]);
}else{
if(hash_equals($user->hash, crypt($password, $user->hash))){
echo json_encode(['success' => true, 'data' => response]);
}else{
echo json_encode(['success' => false, 'code' => 902]);
}
}

AJAX not coming up a success even though its updating the database

My php is updating the table but not refreshing in javascript have tried several different ways of doing this and nothing is working.
PHP
$sql = "UPDATE INTOXDM.ASTP_FORM SET SUPERVISOR_EID = '".$newSuper."' WHERE FORMID = '".$formId."'";
$row = $xdm->fetch($sql);
$return["color"] = $row['APPRENTICE_SIGNATURE'];
$return["json"] = json_encode($return);
echo json_encode($return);
?>
Javascipt
var data = {
"formId": formID,
"newSuper": newSuper
};
data = $.param(data);
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
dataType: "json",
url: "src/GetInfo.php",
data: data,
success: function() {
location.reload();
}
});
I'd start by modifing the code like this:
var data = {
"formId": formID,
"newSuper": newSuper
};
// No need for serialization here,
// the 'data' parameter of jQuery.ajax accepts JS object
// data = $.param(data);
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
dataType: "json",
url: "src/GetInfo.php",
data: data,
// As suggested by Rocket Hazmat, try to add an error callback here
error: function(jQueryXHR, textStatus, errorMessage) {
console.log("Something went wrong " + errorMessage);
},
success: function(jsonResponse) {
// Try to reference the location object from document/window
// wd = document or window as seen here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2624111/preferred-method-to-reload-page-with-javascript
// Also watch out, usually browsers require a user confirmation before reloading if the page contains POST data
// One of these should be fine
wd.location.assign(wd.location.href) : go to the URL
wd.location.replace(wd.location.href) : go to the URL and replace previous page in history
wd.location.reload(<true/false/blank>) : reload page from server/cache/cache
}
});
Also, this might be a shot in the dark but the parameter dataType gave me problems sometime in the past, so if you are sure about the json returned by your php script, you could use the eval function to jsonify the response
$.ajax({
...
// Remove data type
// dataType: "json",
...
success: function(plainTextResponse) {
// Eval response, NOT SAFE! But working
var jsonResponse = eval('('+ plainTextResponse +')');
...
}
});
Your ajax is expecting json data and your php is sending malformed json string. Send a correct json string and your script will work fine.
Your php json_encode should be like this:
$data = json_encode($return);
echo $data;

Using Ajax, JavaScript and HTML to post some data

Hello I´m very frustated because I can´t connect to my database to retrieve some files.
I have my normal html code (index.html) which adds a javascript:
<script src="js/connection.js"></script>
The javascript (connection.js) looks something like this, which detects from a grid of elements the selected element and gets it´s text:
var texto="";
function getData($dia){
//Variable $dia is set up correctly, no problem
var dia=$dia;
/* Send the data using post*/
$.ajax({
url: "php/setup.php",
type: "post",
data: {'fecha':dia},
contentType: "application/json",
datatype: "json",
success: function(){
alert("Exito");
},
error:function(){
alert("failure");
}
});
}
//Get the desired text upon click on the grid item
$(document).ready(function(){
$(".grid__item").click(function(){
$texto=$(this).html().substring(($(this).html().indexOf(">"),($(this).html().indexOf(">")+1)),$(this).html().indexOf("</h2>"));
getData($texto);
});
});
Finally using Ajax I pass the variable 'fecha', the problem is that I think it´s not making a proper connection with my php file since nothing is printing (I have a method which prints to console)
I set the post method like this (PHP file starts here):
debug_to_console("Print Something");
$fecha = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['fecha']);
getPageData($fecha);
Which calls this method:
function getPageData($dia){
$sql = ("SELECT * FROM Comentarios WHERE dia='$dia'");
$result = mysqli_query(connectToDb(),$sql);
$num_rows = mysqli_num_rows($result);
$html="";
$boolean=true;
if($num_rows>0) {
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
if($boolean==true){
$html.='<div class="gray"><div class="comentario">'.$row["comment"].'</div><div class="timestamp">'.$row["dia"].'</div></div>';
$boolean=false;
}else{
$html.='<div class="white"><div class="comentario">'.$row["comment"].'</div><div class="timestamp">'.$row["dia"].'</div></div>';
$boolean=true;
}
}
echo json_encode(array('html'=>($html.'<br>'.'<div class="fondo_gen"> div></div></div>'),'texto'=>$dia));
} else {
echo json_encode(array('html'=>'<div class="transparent"><div class="nada">No hay comentarios aun :(</div></div>','texto'=>$dia));
}
}
PHP file ends here
I know that it's connecting to the database since a made a "dummy.php" file which connects to the same database and table and adds a record, without problem. I´m not really sure which is the problem, I could really appreciate it if you could help me.
PS:
My folders are setup like this:
index.html
js (folder)
a. connection.js
php (folder)
a. setup.php
.
Thanks and sorry for my crappy english
Never mind, I got it fixed, I replaced the Ajax part with:
$.post("php/setup.php",
{
fecha: dia
},
function(data, status){
alert("Data: " + data + "\nStatus: " + status);
});
and received the variable using
if (isset($_POST["fecha"])){
$fecha = $_POST["fecha"];
getPageData($fecha);
}else{
echo "Got nothing";
}
Thanks anyway, I appreciate the help

Codeigniter ajax CSRF problem

I've made a simple autoload function that loads content when you scroll down on a website. However, there seems to be a few problems when i enable CSRF protection in Codeigniter.
I'm not using a form, so i don't know how i can send the token from A to B when i'm doing my post request as you scroll.
My JavaScript
if (location.href == baseurl) {
$(window).scroll(function(){
if ($(window).scrollTop() > $('body').height() / 2) {
if(doScroll == 1) {
$.post(baseurl + 'ajax/images',{'id' : ID}, function(data) {
$("#wrapper_content").append(data);
if(data == 'Det finnes ikke flere bilder i databasen, WTF!? Send inn forslag ASAP!') {
doScroll = 0;
}
ID++;
});
}
}
});
}
Since Codeigniter expects a TOKEN on all POST request i can't get this to work when CSRF i enabled. Any suggestions?
Error when CSRF is Enabled
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (Internal Server Error)
If i turn CSRF off, everything works great...
You might like to try this code I've used. It works great:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
$('.answerlist').each(function(e){
$(this).click(function(){
var valrad = $("input[#name=answer]:checked").val();
var post_data = {
'ansid': valrad,
'<?php echo $this->security->get_csrf_token_name(); ?>' : '<?php echo $this->security->get_csrf_hash(); ?>'
};
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "<?php echo base_url(); ?>online/checkanswer",
data: post_data,
success: function(msg){
/// do something
}
});
});
});
});
</script>
As others say - you have to post the CSFR token name and its value with the AJAX request parameters. Here is a simple solution to append it automatically to every AJAX request.
Here is what I put on my main view, so this code is on every page before loading the other javascript files:
<script>
var csfrData = {};
csfrData['<?php echo $this->security->get_csrf_token_name(); ?>']
= '<?php echo $this->security->get_csrf_hash(); ?>';
</script>
<!-- ... include other javascript files -->
</body>
</html>
And here is a part of a javascript file that I include on every page:
$(function() {
// Attach csfr data token
$.ajaxSetup({
data: csfrData
});
});
If you want, you can echo both the token name and the hash somewhere appropriate. Something like this.
echo $this->security->get_csrf_token_name()
and
echo $this->security->get_csrf_hash()
Or, you could use form_open() as usual and use the hidden input that is generated for you from your javascript. Disabling the CSRF-functionality is the wrong way to go.
Having reviewed my situation I believe the best option is to use CSRF but reset the token on each attempt. Otherwise the ideas expressed earlier about re-using the cookie token would allow an attacker to resubmit data hundreds of times using the same token which defeats the object of the point.
As such I have created the following function:
public function resetCSRF(){
$this->security = null;
$_COOKIE[$this->config->item('csrf_cookie_name')] = null;
load_class('Security', 'core');
$this->security->csrf_set_cookie();
return $this->security->get_csrf_hash();
}
If for example an ajax based login form fails - call this function in your PHP and then on the javascript side that receives the failure (this solution uses Jquery and a getCookie function from w3schools) would then simply call:
$('input[name="csrf_test_name"]').val(getCookie('csrf_cookie_name'));
Basically what you need to do is get the expected csrf value from the cookie (named 'ci_csrf_token' by default), then post it along with your other data.
You would need to modify this line:
$.post(baseurl + 'ajax/images',{'id' : ID}, function(data) {
to:
$.post(baseurl + 'ajax/images',{'id' : ID,'ci_csrf_token' : $.cookie('ci_csrf_token')}, function(data) {
Might need to install the cookie addon (I'm not really sure; I use mootools). Here is more information: http://aymsystems.com/ajax-csrf-protection-codeigniter-20.
Previous suggestions work great, but rather than using a variable that you can apply in every data-post, I find it simpler to use the ajax-setting to automatically apply this token to every post:
$(document).ajaxSend(function(elm, xhr, s){
if(s.data){
s.data += '&';
}
s.data += '<?php echo $this->security->get_csrf_token_name(); ?>=<?php echo $this->security->get_csrf_hash(); ?>';
});
(works with jquery-1.9.1. I'm not sure about other jquery-versions)
The only problem with a few of the above answers is that a csrf token is only valid for one request, so if you make a post request via ajax and do not refresh the page you will not have the current csrf token for your next ajax post request. This is my solution:
In your CodeIgniter Controller:
$data = array('data'=> 'data to send back to browser');
$csrf = $this->security->get_csrf_hash();
$this->output
->set_content_type('application/json')
->set_output(json_encode(array('data' => $data, 'csrf' => $csrf)));
$data = the data to return to the browser
$csrf = new csrf token to be used by the browser for next ajax post request
Obviously you can output this in other ways but JSON is used mostly with ajax calls. Also include this token in every post response to be used for the next post request
Then in your next ajax request (javascript):
var token = data.csrf;
$.ajax({
url: '/next/ajax/request/url',
type: 'POST',
data: { new_data: 'new data to send via post', csrf_token:token },
cache: false,
success: function(data, textStatus, jqXHR) {
// Get new csrf token for next ajax post
var new_csrf_token = data.csrf
//Do something with data returned from post request
},
error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
// Handle errors here
console.log('ERRORS: ' + textStatus + ' - ' + errorThrown );
}
});
Also remember that where I've got csrf_token:token replace crf_token with the name of your token found in application/config/config.php on line that states $config['csrf_token_name'] = 'csrf_token';

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