I need help with SCR

[ojsimon]

Hi
I am trying to run an external javascript that is on one of my other systems

When i view the source of the page the code i see is

<SCRIPT language="JavaScript"> 
document.write('<iframe width="400" height="200" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" src="/websnips copy/index.php/widget/show/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5iYmMuY28udWsvbG9uZG9uL25ld3Mv/156"></iframe>');
</SCRIPT>

I am trying to create a document like this

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://localhost:8888/websnips%20copy/index.php/widget/widget/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5iYmMuY28udWsvbG9uZG9uL25ld3Mv/156"></script>

Which should embed the script above it, but it doesn't. Can anyone help me fix this problem?

Thanks

[jscheuer1]

Is this all local (LAN)? I ask because that looks like a local path. Anyways, I'm having trouble following you. But there are two things we should get straight:

• Why an iframe?
• Are you trying to import a page or a script?

Oh, and just as a side note, don't use the deprecated language attribute in a script tag, and do use the required type attribute.

Now, if what you want to create with javascript is:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://localhost:8888/websnips%20copy/index.php/widget/widget/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5iYmMuY28udWsvbG9uZG9uL25ld3Mv/156"></script>

do:

<script type="text/javascript">
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="http://localhost:8888/websnips%20copy/index.php/widget/widget/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5iYmMuY28udWsvbG9uZG9uL25ld3Mv/156"><\/script>');
</script>

[ojsimon]

Thanks for your help. I am testing it on a local server yes, however it is for my website. Basically what i want is for my users to be able to embed this widget using an src however i was under the impression that i wouldn't be able to just src the file i want them to embed because it is html not js. Hence i used the iframe to make it javascript, and enable them to SRC it.

do you understand now?

Any advice?

Thanks

[jscheuer1]

I get it a little better. If you want folks to embed something on their site, if it is a page, you can just tell them to put the iframe containing it directly into their code or you could have a script that writes out the tag for them.

[ojsimon]

Is my way not possible? the problem is many people do not like iframes and also i find them quite buggy to work with. I have seen other sites that seem to be using the method i described.

Thanks

[jscheuer1]

The trouble is I really don't understand what you are describing. Can you give me a link to a page that uses the method you want? And, could you try describing it better?

[ojsimon]

Yeh sure one example is http://widgeteasy.com which lets the user generate a widget out of a feed.

1) The widget is constructed out of html,
See http://www.widgeteasy.com/rsswid.php?fid=201 (view source)


2) this page is then ifamed in javascript
http://www.widgeteasy.com/rss.v1.js

document.write('<iframe width="100%" height="312" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" src="http://www.widgeteasy.com/rsswid.php?fid='+bunnywid.fid+'"></iframe>');

3) this js is then embedded into the site and given as an embed code using SCR
http://www.widgeteasy.com/widget.php?fid=201

<script type="text/javascript">bunnywid = { fid: 1108 };</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.widgeteasy.com/rss.v1.js"></script>

Thanks for all your help.

[jscheuer1]

Well this is all that is in that (http://www.widgeteasy.com/rss.v1.js) script:

document.write('<iframe width="100%" height="312" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" src="http://www.widgeteasy.com/rsswid.php?fid='+bunnywid.fid+'"></iframe>');

So, you can do that sort of thing too. It requires that you have a page to serve, as the widget site does:

http://www.widgeteasy.com/rsswid.php

The customizing fid used by their server's PHP interpreter is passed via:

<script type="text/javascript">bunnywid = { fid: 201 };</script>

in that part of the code that is put on the user's page and picked up in their script with:

 . . . teasy.com/rsswid.php?fid='+bunnywid.fid+'"></ifram . . .

[ojsimon]

Hi
sorry i don't quite understand what you suggest i do?

Thanks

[jscheuer1]

Do you have a page to serve? If so, use that here with its full path to its location on your server:

document.write('<iframe width="100%" height="312" allowtransparency="true" ' +
'scrolling="no" frameborder="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" ' +
'src="your page goes here"></iframe>');

Save that file as whatever.js and give your users the address to it to put on their page, ex:

<script src="http://full_path_on_your_server_to/whatever.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Now, if your page (your page goes here) is a PHP page and you want your users to pass a code to it, you can have them use two scripts (like what the widget site does):

<script type="text/javascript">var myObject = { fid: 201 };</script>
<script src="http://full_path_on_your_server_to/whatever.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Then in your whatever.js (add red):

document.write('<iframe width="100%" height="312" allowtransparency="true" ' +
'scrolling="no" frameborder="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" ' +
'src="your page goes here?fid=' + myObject.fid + '"></iframe>');