Erik...
What an excellent response, and in fact I rated it thusly. I'll look
more at this later, but I wanted to thank you for your time. Muchas
gracias amigo.
What an excellent reponse
On Dec 8, 2:42 pm, "Erik Beeson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> Neat idea. What you want for remote data is JSONP, which just requires that
> your server produce a chunk of javascript that calls a function with a
> specified name and passes in your data as a JSON block. So instead of
> generating an HTML fragment, your data.cfm would take a parameter called
> jsoncallback, and generate code like:
>
> <value of jsoncallback paramater>({ data: "my html fragment"});
>
> Then in jQuery you do:
>
> $.getJSON("http://www.commadelimited.com/code/whiskerino/data.cfm?jsoncallback=?
> ",{
> username:options['username'],
> size:options['size']}, function(data){
>
> $targetDiv.html(data.data).cycle('fade');
>
> });
>
> However, having said all that, since your script is already a remote
> JavaScript, my suggestion is just to make your js file be dynamic and
> include the data in it directly. Then your users could just specify their
> options in the url to your javascript file, like so:
>
> <script language="javascript"
> src="http://www.commadelimited.com/code/whiskerino/whiskerino.js?username=...
> " type="text/javascript"></script>
>
> And you would generate a script with the proper data already included
> directly in the script. Something like (in your generated whiskerino.js):
>
> $(document).ready(function(){
> $('#<value of divID parameter>').html("<everything you currently have in
> data.cfm>").cycle('fade');
>
> });
>
> Or if they didn't supply a username, you could render an error message
> instead:
>
> $(document).ready(function(){
> $('#<value of divID parameter>').html('<div style="color: red">Please
> indicate your Whiskerino moniker.</div>').cycle('fade');
>
> });
>
> Also, if you don't do it like I'm suggesting, I suggest that you at least
> wrap the whole thing in a function instead of requiring a global object
> called "options". In whiskerino.js have something like:
>
> function whiskerino(options) {
> $(document).ready({
> /* your code */
> });
>
> }
>
> And then your users include your your script and call your function and
> pass in their options:
>
> <!-- start: copying here -->
> <script language="javascript"
> src="http://www.commadelimited.com/code/whiskerino/whiskerino.js";
> type="text/javascript"></script>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> <!--
> whiskerino({
> username:'creole'
> //,size:'m' // options are t, s, m, l or o | defaults to 'm'.
> // ,divID:'whiskerino', // optional, but will look for a div called
> 'whiskerino'});
>
> //-->
> </script>
> <!-- end: copying here -->
>
> But the dynamic script way that I suggested would fix that too.
>
> Hope it helps.
>
> --Erik
>
> On 12/8/07, Andy Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > I'm participating in an event in which you post photos of yourself
> > each day (http://www.whiskerino.org/2007/creole/). The organizer of
> > the event created RSS feeds for each participant. I thought it would
> > be fun, and a good challenge to write a photo gallery using the Cycle
> > plugin that could be used by any of the participants (http://
> >www.commadelimited.com/code/whiskerino/slideshow.cfm).
>
> > It works great on my server, but I mistakenly assumed that the local
> > reference data.cfm (the file that does the work) made in the JS file
> > would always be made on my server. I just tried it locally and I'm
> > getting the dreaded cross domain XmlHttpRequest error. I want this to
> > work without the user have to install any code, or even have a hosting
> > company that offers a scripting language. I wonder now if this is even
> > possible.
>
> > On data.cfm, I'm using ColdFusion to read in the RSS feed, then I'm
> > looping over the feed and outputting the contents into div tags. You
> > can see the results here:
> >http://www.commadelimited.com/code/whiskerino/data.cfm
>
> > Can any of you suggest an alternate method that would work?- Hide quoted
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