Code for accessing data from another file

[Mark Ellis]

Hi,

I want to access events from a separate file, rather than have to list them all in the main calendar htm file.

What code do I need to put in after "myCalendar.defineEvents([" in the code below ?

<script type="text/javascript">
   var myCalendar = new JEC('myCalendarContainer');
   myCalendar.defineEvents([
      { 
        eventDate: 20120804, 
        eventDescription: 'Weymouth', 
        eventLink: 'http://www.dorsetdog.com/diary-of-dog-shows#wtg',
       eventLinkTitle: 'A JavaScript Event Calendar'
      },
	  {eventDate: 20120812, 
        eventDescription: 'Dorchester',
		eventLink: 'http://www.dorsetdog.com/diary-of-dog-shows#wtg'
		},
     ]);
     myCalendar.showCalendar();
</script>

thanks

[jscheuer1]

I wouldn't. Since there's very little else there besides the events, using a text only editor like NotePad I would make an external script like so:

   var myCalendar = new JEC('myCalendarContainer');
   myCalendar.defineEvents([
      { 
        eventDate: 20120804, 
        eventDescription: 'Weymouth', 
        eventLink: 'http://www.dorsetdog.com/diary-of-dog-shows#wtg',
       eventLinkTitle: 'A JavaScript Event Calendar'
      },
	  {eventDate: 20120812, 
        eventDescription: 'Dorchester',
		eventLink: 'http://www.dorsetdog.com/diary-of-dog-shows#wtg'
		},
     ]);
     myCalendar.showCalendar();

Save it as - say, mycalendarinit.js. Put it in the same folder as the page that's using it, and then replace the code from your post with:

<script src="mycalendarinit.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

You could even put it in another folder as long as you include the path to its location in the src attribute of the external script tag. Example:

<script src="http://www.mydomain.com/js/mycalendarinit.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

where the highlighted part is the path to it on the server.

[Mark Ellis]

Brilliant. Just what I was after

Many thanks, John

Mark