Bumpage.
On Jul 17, 1:07 pm, KuroTsuto <kurots...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> One component to my current project involves retrieving various blocks
> of text and html from a database that are displayed on a website (a
> website that is composed of the same blocks of text and html from the
> same database) via $.getJSON, and thereafter locating each of the
> retrieved blocks on the page and wrapping them with some sort of tag.
>
> Normally I would do this through PHP, simply inserting the tags around
> each of the variables that contained information from the database
> however under the particular limitations for my project, I am unable
> to do so.
>
> Currently I am using soemthing similar to this:
>
> $.getJSON('json.scriptage.php'
> function(data) {
> for(var i=0,imax=data.length;i<imax;i++) {
> var shtml = data[i];
> var rx = new RegExp('/^ '+shtml+' $/');
> $(":contains('"+shtml+"'):last").each(function(){
> $(this).html($(this).html().replace(rx,
> '<ttt>'+shtml+'</ttt>'));
> });
> }
>
> });
>
> My thoughts that my for loop should cycle through the decoded JSON
> array (i.e. all of the values retrieved from the database), find the
> lowest-level container of the value's html, and use a replace function
> on said html to wrap it with the new tags.
>
> My problems with my current system are twofold:
>
> -The first is that the :contains selector only accounts for elements
> that contain the text passed as an argument, and does not seem to
> account for html.
>
> -The second is simply that I cannot seem to make it work for text, as
> things stand. I'm not quite sure where my error is here, but not even
> in the instances where the values retrieved from the database are pure
> text will this code properly replace the occurrences on the page.
>
> Any modifications to my code or suggestions are very much appreciated!
> I'd imagine there's some method of completing this task that is a
> thousand times easier that I'm overlooking.
>
> Thanks
> ~KuroTsuto
