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Call lightbox from javascript function

I have a webpage with the following code:
<script>
$("button").click(function(){
var loc = window.location.href;
$.post("../cgi-bin/test.py",
{stuff_for_python: loc},
function myFunction(data) {
window.open("/img/" + data);
});
});
</script>
When clicked, the button sends the current URL as a variable to a python script, which then formats it and queries a MySQL database to get the name an image file that is paired with this unique URL. The image name is then sent back to the page, where it is opened for viewing.
All the pieces are working together and the image is displaying correctly. What I would like to do now is to open the image in Lightbox (or a similar product). Can this be done? If so, how?

Example using http://www.jacklmoore.com/colorbox/
$("button").click(function(){
var loc = window.location.href;
$.post("../cgi-bin/test.py",
{stuff_for_python: loc},
function myFunction(data) {
$.colorbox({html:"<img src=\"/img/" + data + "\" />"});
});
});
Or this maybe work better (sorry, I have not used colorbox in a while):
$.colorbox({href:"/img/" + data});

Changing how URL parameters are appended to links based on destination

My company is serving up PPC landing pages with Unbounce (on a subdomain), which then links back to our website. We're using the following code to append the AdWords gclid variable to outgoing links:
$(document).ready(function() {var params = window.location.search.replace(/\+/g,'%20'); var button = $('a').each( function(i) {this.href = this.href + params;});});
The issue arises when the Gclid gets appended to a URL that already has a parameter (like our checkout forms). You end up with a URL that looks like this:
domain.com/checkout?EventID=15546?Gclid=jdkI324kd
I'm wondering if there's a way to change the Glid's '?' to an '&' for certain URLs that already have parameters, while keeping the existing functionality of using the '?' for the others.
Thanks!
Edit: Seems like there's some redirection going on, this is how the href looks for the links in question:
http://domain.com/lp/clkg/https/domain.com/cart.aspx?EventID=125160?gclid=CPfO1JaOx7oCFQZyQgod5A4AFw

Simply replace it yourself:
$(document).ready(function() {
var params = window.location.search.replace(/\+/g,'%20');
var button = $('a').each( function(i) {
if (this.href.indexOf('?') == -1) {
this.href = this.href + params;
} else if (params.length) {
this.href = this.href + '&' + params.substr(1);
}
});
});
Edit: and are you aware that you are replacing subsequent spaces with only one single '%20'?

How do you accept a value from a user (textbox) and create a Site (when user hits Submit button) using Google Apps Script and UI Services?

I have the following code as a Google Apps Script (deployed as a web app) and have inserted it into my Google Enterprise page as a Google Apps Script Gadget. The UI (panel) loads properly with the label, textBox and button, but when I enter in text and click the button, I get the following error:
Error encountered: The resource you requested could not be located.
Here is my script:
function doGet(e) {
// create all UI elements
var myApp = UiApp.createApplication();
var panel = myApp.createVerticalPanel();
var label = myApp.createLabel('Please enter the name of your new site:');
var textBox = myApp.createTextBox().setName('txtSiteName');
var button = myApp.createButton('Create Site');
var btnHandler = myApp.createServerHandler('createNewSite');
button.addClickHandler(btnHandler);
btnHandler.addCallbackElement(panel);
// add all UI elements to the panel
panel.add(label);
panel.add(textBox);
panel.add(button);
// add the panel to the app
myApp.add(panel);
// return the app to the browser to be displayed
return myApp;
}
// button server handler
function createNewSite(e) {
var domain = SitesApp.getActiveSite().getUrl();
var siteName = e.parameter.txtSiteName;
var newSite = SitesApp.createSite(domain, siteName, 'script_center_demo', "this is just a test page");
return app.close();
}
Also, what is the difference between createSite() and createWebPage()?
EDIT: Ok, so using the same doGet() function above, my createNewSite() function could look like this?
function createNewSite(e) {
var domain = 'my-domain.com';
var siteName = e.parameter.txtSiteName;
var newPage = SitesApp.createSite(domain, siteName, 'script_center_demo', "this is just a test page");
var pageName = 'script_center_demo';
var html = '<div><p>This project aims to....</p></div>';
var site = SitesApp.getSite(domain, site);
site.createWebPage('Script Center Demo', pageName, html);
return app.close();
}

Look at this line:
var domain = SitesApp.getActiveSite().getUrl();
You're need to obtain a domain, e.g. example.com, but this line will yield a URI containing google's domain, and a resource path (that contains your domain). Example:
https://sites.google.com/a/example.com/mySite/
^^^^^^^^^^^
When you attempt to create a new site, it cannot be found as a domain. You need to strip the result of getUrl() down to just the domain name.
If you're the Domain administrator, you can use this instead:
var domain = UserManager.getDomain();
Ordinary domain users don't have access to the UserManager Service, so they would need to parse the site URL to extract their domain. I suggest using parseUri by Steven Levithan to handle the task:
var uri = parseUri(SitesApp.getActiveSite().getUrl());
var domain = parseUri(uri.path.slice(3)).host;
The .slice(3) operation is intended to remove /a/ from the path property of the parsed Site URI. This works on my accounts in multiple domains today - ymmv.
After that, we treat the remaining path as a URI and invoke parseUri() again, extracting the host property, which should be our domain.
Also, what is the difference between createSite() and createWebPage()?
You create an instance of a Site, using the Sites service method SiteApp.createSite. Not much to look at, a Site object is a container, a skeleton - you use the Site.createWebPage() method to create Web Pages that will be contained in the Site, and visible to users, mainly via web browsers.
Edit - Debugging Results
Debugging WebApps is tricky. Get familiar with "View - Execution Transcript", since it will show a trace of execution for your createNewSite() handler function when it's invoked. Using that technique, here's what I found, part 1:
We can't call SitesApp.getActiveSite().getUrl() in the handler, because when it's invoked there is no active site. You're already using the simple work-around of hard-coding the domain.
When trying to get a handle on the new site, you have var site = SitesApp.getSite(domain, site);. This is where your latest "resource error" message was coming from. The site parameter is left-over from insertion of the function - it needs to be a string, matching the site name used in createSite().
You're returning app.close(), but have no app defined in the function.
With those problems fixed, here's problems, part 2:
The dialog lets users enter a site name, but there are restrictions on those that need to be followed to make createSite succeed. The simplest rule is that the site name must be lower case. Why not let users enter the site title, and derive the name from that?
What if the site already exists? That's not handled. Same thing for the page creation, later on.
There's no feedback to the user. The example below has very rudimentary status updates in it, which are appended to the UI.
updated code
function createNewSite(e) {
var app = UiApp.getActiveApplication();
var domain = 'mitel.com';
var siteTitle = e.parameter.txtSiteName;
var siteName = siteTitle.toLowerCase();
var result = 'Results: ';
var site = SitesApp.getSite(domain, siteName); // Check if site already exists
if (site)
result += 'Site "' + siteName + '" exists, ';
else {
// Doesn't exist, so create it
site = SitesApp.createSite(domain, siteName, siteTitle, "this is just a test page");
result += 'Site "' + siteName + '" created with title "' + siteTitle + '", ';
}
var pageName = 'script_center_demo';
var html = '<div><p>This project aims to....</p></div>';
var page = site.getChildByName(pageName); // Check if page already exists
if (page)
result += 'Page "' + pageName + '" exists, ';
else {
// Doesn't exist, so create it
page = site.createWebPage('Script Center Demo', pageName, html);
result += 'Page "' + pageName + '" created, ';
}
result += 'Done.';
// Add result text to UI
var uiResult = app.createLabel(result, true);
app.add(uiResult);
return app.close();
}

How to run url from ".js" file?

Enviroment: Visual Studio 2012, MVC4, Razor, Internet Application.
I'm working with eBay API and I want to show the search results (JSON).
I have a view page with code...
<script>
function _cb_findItemsByKeywords(root)
{
var items = root.findItemsByKeywordsResponse[0].searchResult[0].item || [];
var html = [];
html.push('<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3"><tbody>');
for (var i = 0; i < items.length; ++i)
{
var item = items[i];
var title = item.title;
var pic = item.galleryURL;
var viewitem = item.viewItemURL;
if (null != title && null != viewitem)
{
html.push('<tr><td>' + '<img src="' + pic + '" border="0">' + '</td>' +
'<td>' + title + '</td></tr>');
}
}
html.push('</tbody></table>');
document.getElementById("results").innerHTML = html.join("");
}
</script>
This line in ".js" file:
var url = "http://ebay.com?..."
How can I execute this url from ".js" file automatically, when I openning this View Page? (This url sending request to Ebay server and receiving data, which will be showed on this View Page.)
I will change a question a little...
If I'm running this code from the View page, everything works fine:
<script src=http://ebay.com?... </script>
How can I receive this part("http://ebay.com?..." as a variable) from ".js" file? Is it possible?

If you just want to send the request, you could add an image to the DOM with that as the src, for instance.
If you want to receive data from the request, you're going to have to do an AJAX call. This is handled quite differently in different browsers, so here's a good idea to use a framework, such as jQuery.
Since the URL is on a different domain than yours, however, you won't be able to access it with a regular AJAX request. You'd have to refer to what is called a JSONP request. This requires that the document you're fetched is formatted in a specific manner to allow this. If it isn't, JavaScript simply won't allow this interaction, due to the Same-Origin Policy.
JSONP requires that the remote document has the following format:
someCallbackFunction(javaScriptObjectWithData);
If it does, you'd be able to include a script file to the DOM with that URL as the src, the content of the document, once fetched, will be immediately executed in your browser. You should by then have specified a callback function with a name matching the callback being made in the document (this is usually something you can specify with through querystrings in the original request).
If none of these options are available for you, because of the format of the remote document, then you're going to have to request the document from server side. If you don't have access to a serverside environment yourself, in order to do this, there is the option of using somebody elses server. Yahoo's custom query language – YQL – can be used for querying the content of remote documents, and YQL is available through JSONP, so you could possibly relay your request through them.
See this post on using YQL with JSONP
Update, now that you've added more data, eBay API is available for JSONP, and I think that's the solution you're looking for.

Resolved...
<script src="/Scripts/ebay.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script>
s = document.createElement( 'script' );
s.src = url;
document.body.appendChild( s );
</script>

add page title to javascript code

I have this javascript snippet which passes an id and the reffering page to a php page where i then collect the ip address, what i wanted to do is also capture the page meta title and also forward that to the php page. However i am very new to javascript and not sure if it is possible.
Any suggestions would be appreciated below is my javascript code, thanks.
var track = new Image();
track.src="http://testsite.co.uk/~vtrack/track/track.php?id=801003&self=" + document.referrer;

track.src = "http://testsite.co.uk/~vtrack/track/track.php?id=801003" +
"&self=" + document.referrer +
"&pageTitle=" + document.title;

document.title = `Your Title goes here`