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aspx page open a hyperlink via a button

I've read a few answers, and tried a bit of different code from them, but haven't been able to solve this. I am a newbie at this and it seems like quite a simple thing to do, apologies if the answer is really obvious, just need it to work really..
So far, I have an aspx page in Visual Studio 2010 / it was created by someone else, and has both JavaScript and cSharp code behind it.
What I would like to happen is that, an 'Edit' button appears on the page in a table in the correct place, and as a result of pressing it, another page is called allowing the editing (of contacts - it's an internal website).
I can get the link working OK as a 'normal' hyperlink, using this line of code:
var editcontact = '<td align = "right" colspan = "40" class =
"contactBorder"><a href="WebForm1.aspx?supplier_id=' +
dataRow.supplier_id + '">Open Contact(s) For Edit</a></td>';
edit contact then gets put in a table like structure (maybe it's "form" given the HTML tags):
finishedcontacts += openrow + contactid + contactname +
contactjobtitle + contactlocation + contacttelephone +
contactemail+ editcontact + '</form></tr>';
That's OK but it's not very 'nice', what I would like is an actual edit button, I can get the button to appear, but the last time I tried it pressing it does nothing:
var editcontact = '<asp:button id = "editImage4" runat="server"
Text="Click me"
OnClientClick="window.open(\'WebForm1.aspx\\?supplier_id=\' + dataRow.supplier_id + \', \'WebForm1\');" />';
Any ideas on how to get this working OK from a button?
Here is some other code I tried, which was to separate out the generation of the url from the calling code, but none of them seemed to work:
//var url = string.Format("{0}?supplier_id={1}", "../WebForm1.aspx", dataRow.supplier_id);
//var url = string.Format("{0}?supplier_id={1}", #"../WebForm1.aspx", dataRow.supplier_id);
//var url = 'string.Format("{0} supplier_id={1}", "WebForm1.aspx",'+ dataRow.supplier_id +')';
var url = 'WebForm1.aspx?supplier_id= '+ dataRow.supplier_id +'';
var supplierid1 = dataRow.supplier_id;
Any ideas what be greatly appreciated. This is my first ever post..

Use Response.Redirect(url) if you want to redirect using your button and this button must be a server side control.

In the end, a colleague helped me out with this.
As other posters identified there was some problems with the URL, and especially with the escapes.
Anyway below is the code in the unlikely event anyone needs something similar.
buttoncode = '';
var editcontact = '' + buttoncode + '';
And we added a function (which should probably be called a method or whatever):
function OpenContactForEdit(supplier_id)
{
window.location = "WebForm1.aspx?supplier_id=" + supplier_id;
}
Comments:
This bit is very important:
onClick="OpenContactForEdit(\'' + dataRow.supplier_id + '\')"
Note exactly how we needed to escape (and 'end escape') the single quotes.
I believe that was quite a big part of why, what I was doing was not working.

Using Javascript to scan JSON data from youtube API

I am trying my hand at searching youtube with the youtube API via Javascript, and as per the google docs on the matter:
<div id="agenda"></div>
<script>
function listEvents(root) {
var feed = root.feed;
var entries = feed.entry || [];
var html = ['<ul>'];
for (var i = 0; i < entries.length; ++i) {
var entry = entries[i];
console.log(entry);
var title = (entry.title.type == 'html') ? entry.title.$t : escape(entry.title.$t);
var start = (entry['gd$when']) ? entry['gd$when'][0].startTime : "";
//var id = id.video;
//alert(id);
html.push('<li>', start, ' ', title, '</li>');
}
html.push('</ul>');
document.getElementById("agenda").innerHTML = html.join("");
}
</script>
<script src="https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=all the small things&max-results=2&v=2&format=5&orderby=relevance&safeSearch=none&alt=json-in-script&callback=listEvents">
</script>
this should return data on the song(query) all the small things. and it does! however what im trying to do with this data is grab the id from the json data, but as i am completely new to json (and js for that matter) i seem to be having a hard time doing this. viewing the page with the network tools i can clearly see the section that contains the id:
"id":{"$t":"tag:youtube.com,2008:video:9Ht5RZpzPqw"}
and i can clearly see the data that i want(9Ht5RZpzPqw) however no matter how much i scoure json tutorials it makes no sense to me, google seems to do json different than every tutorial ive read. I threw together a jsbin so you can see the results yourself: jsbin
Anyone have anyideas? you can see in my code one of the many things i have tried to retrieve that data. Nothing I do seems to work though... Anyone have any ideas or pointers?
listEvents({"version":"1.0","encoding":"UTF-8","feed":{"xmlns$app":"http://www.w3.org/2007/app","xmlns":"http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom","xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","xmlns$openSearch":"http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/","xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","xmlns$yt":"http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007","gd$etag":"W/\"DkEBRn08fip7I2A9WhBaFE8.\"","id":{"$t":"tag:youtube.com,2008:videos"},"updated":{"$t":"2013-05-24T19:44:17.376Z"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind","term":"http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#video"}],"title":{"$t":"Videos matching: all the small things"},"logo":{"$t":"http://www.youtube.com/img/pic_youtubelogo_123x63.gif"},"link":[{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.youtube.com"},{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?v=2"},{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#batch","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/batch?v=2"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?alt=json-in-script&q=all+the+small+things&start-index=1&max-results=2&format=5&safeSearch=none&orderby=relevance&v=2"},{"rel":"service","type":"application/atomsvc+xml","href":"https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?alt=atom-service&v=2"},{"rel":"next","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?alt=json-in-script&q=all+the+small+things&start-index=3&max-results=2&format=5&safeSearch=none&orderby=relevance&v=2"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"YouTube"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.youtube.com/"}}],"generator":{"$t":"YouTube data API","version":"2.1","uri":"http://gdata.youtube.com"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":1000000},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":1},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":2},"entry":[{"gd$etag":"W/\"C0IMSH47eCp7I2A9WhBaFE8.\"","id":{"$t":"tag:youtube.com,2008:video:9Ht5RZpzPqw"},"published":{"$t":"2009-06-16T23:16:07.000Z"},"updated":{"$t":"2013-05-24T18:53:09.000Z"},"app$control":{"yt$state":{"$t":"Syndication of this video was restricted.","name":"restricted","reasonCode":"limitedSyndication"}},"category":[{"scheme":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind","term":"http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#video"},{"scheme":"http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/categories.cat","term":"Music","label":"Music"}],"title":{"$t":"blink-182 - All The Small Things"},"content":{"type":"application/x-shockwave-flash","src":"https://www.youtube.com/v/9Ht5RZpzPqw?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata"},"link":[{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ht5RZpzPqw&feature=youtube_gdata"},{"rel":"http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#video.responses","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/9Ht5RZpzPqw/responses?v=2"},{"rel":"http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#video.related","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/9Ht5RZpzPqw/related?v=2"},{"rel":"http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#uploader","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/f2WBemooP2gBBx3lrraNQw?v=2"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/9Ht5RZpzPqw?v=2"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"blink-182"},"uri":{"$t":"https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/blink182VEVO"},"yt$userId":{"$t":"f2WBemooP2gBBx3lrraNQw"}}],"yt$accessControl":[{"action":"comment","permission":"allowed"},{"action":"commentVote","permission":"allowed"},{"action":"videoRespond","permission":"allowed"},{"action":"rate","permission":"allowed"},{"action":"embed","permission":"allowed"},{"action":"list","permission":"allowed"},{"action":"autoPlay","permission":"allowed"},{"action":"syndicate","permission":"allowed"}],"gd$comments":{"gd$feedLink":{"rel":"http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#comments","href":"https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/9Ht5RZpzPqw/comments?v=2","countHint":47078}},"media$group":{"media$category":[{"$t":"Music","label":"Music","scheme":"http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/categories.cat"}],"media$content":[{"url":"https://www.youtube.com/v/9Ht5RZpzPqw?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata","type":"application/x-shockwave-flash","medium":"video","isDefault":"true","expression":"full","duration":173,"yt$format":5}],"media$credit":[{"$t":"blink182vevo","role":"uploader","scheme":"urn:youtube","yt$display":"blink-182","yt$type":"partner"}],"media$description":{"$t":"Music video by blink-182 performing All The Small Things. (C) 2000 Geffen Records.","type":"plain"},"media$keywords":{},"media$license":{"$t":"youtube","type":"text/html","href":"http://www.youtube.com/t/terms"},"media$player":{"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ht5RZpzPqw&feature=youtube_gdata_player"},"media$restriction":[{"$t":"DE","type":"country","relationship":"deny"}],"media$thumbnail":[{"url":"http://i.ytimg.com/vi/9Ht5RZpzPqw/default.jpg","height":90,"width":120,"time":"00:01:26.500","yt$name":"default"},{"url":"http://i.ytimg.com/vi/9Ht5RZpzPqw/mqdefault.jpg","height":180,"width":320,"yt$name":"mqdefault"},{"url":"http://i.ytimg.com/vi/9Ht5RZpzPqw/hqdefault.jpg","height":360,"width":480,"yt$name":"hqdefault"},{"url":"http://i.ytimg.com/vi/9Ht5RZpzPqw/1.jpg","height":90,"width":120,"time":"00:00:43.250","yt$name":"start"},{"url":"http://i.ytimg.com/vi/9Ht5RZpzPqw/2.jpg","height":90,"width":120,"time":"00:01:26.500","yt$name":"middle"},{"url":"http://i.ytimg.com/vi/9Ht5RZpzPqw/3.jpg","height":90,"width":120,"time":"00:02:09.750","yt$name":"end"}],"media$title":{"$t":"blink-182 - All The Small Things","type":"plain"},"yt$duration":{"seconds":"173"},"yt$uploaded":{"$t":"2009-06-16T23:16:07.000Z"},"yt$uploaderId":{"$t":"UCf2WBemooP2gBBx3lrraNQw"},"yt$videoid":{"$t":"9Ht5RZpzPqw"}},"gd$rating":{"average":4.900098,"max":5,"min":1,"numRaters":144872,"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#overall"},"yt$statistics":{"favoriteCount":"0","viewCount":"49388829"},"yt$rating":{"numDislikes":"3618","numLikes":"141254"}},{"gd$etag":"W/\"D0UCQH47eCp7I2A9WhBaFEw.\"","id":{"$t":"tag:youtube.com,2008:video:ahWmkV0mtvk"},"published":{"$t":"2007-09-19T10:10:21.000Z"},"updated":{"$t":"2013-05-24T17:07:41.000Z"},"app$control":{"yt$state":{"$t":"Syndication of this video was restricted.","name":"restricted","reasonCode":"limitedSyndication"}},"category":[{"scheme":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind","term":"http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#video"},{"scheme":"http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/categories.cat","term":"Music","label":"Music"}],"title":{"$t":"blink 182 all the small things lyrics"},"content":{"type":"application/x-shockwave-flash","src":"https://www.youtube.com/v/ahWmkV0mtvk?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata"},"link":[{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahWmkV0mtvk&feature=youtube_gdata"},{"rel":"http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#video.responses","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/ahWmkV0mtvk/responses?v=2"},{"rel":"http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#video.related","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/ahWmkV0mtvk/related?v=2"},{"rel":"http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#uploader","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/KGRY-OpB0xZLqpTZNR418w?v=2"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/ahWmkV0mtvk?v=2"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"fuckudumbcuntimnot"},"uri":{"$t":"https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/fuckudumbcuntimnot"},"yt$userId":{"$t":"KGRY-OpB0xZLqpTZNR418w"}}],"yt$accessControl":[{"action":"comment","permission":"allowed"},{"action":"commentVote","permission":"allowed"},{"action":"videoRespond","permission":"allowed"},{"action":"rate","permission":"allowed"},{"action":"embed","permission":"allowed"},{"action":"list","permission":"allowed"},{"action":"autoPlay","permission":"allowed"},{"action":"syndicate","permission":"denied"}],"gd$comments":{"gd$feedLink":{"rel":"http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#comments","href":"https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/ahWmkV0mtvk/comments?v=2","countHint":5681}},"media$group":{"media$category":[{"$t":"Music","label":"Music","scheme":"http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/categories.cat"}],"media$content":[{"url":"https://www.youtube.com/v/ahWmkV0mtvk?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata","type":"application/x-shockwave-flash","medium":"video","isDefault":"true","expression":"full","duration":159,"yt$format":5}],"media$credit":[{"$t":"fuckudumbcuntimnot","role":"uploader","scheme":"urn:youtube","yt$display":"fuckudumbcuntimnot"}],"media$description":{"$t":"awsome!!!!!!!!!!!11.","type":"plain"},"media$keywords":{},"media$license":{"$t":"youtube","type":"text/html","href":"http://www.youtube.com/t/terms"},"media$player":{"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahWmkV0mtvk&feature=youtube_gdata_player"},"media$restriction":[{"$t":"DE","type":"country","relationship":"deny"}],"media$thumbnail":[{"url":"http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ahWmkV0mtvk/default.jpg","height":90,"width":120,"time":"00:01:19.500","yt$name":"default"},{"url":"http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ahWmkV0mtvk/mqdefault.jpg","height":180,"width":320,"yt$name":"mqdefault"},{"url":"http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ahWmkV0mtvk/hqdefault.jpg","height":360,"width":480,"yt$name":"hqdefault"},{"url":"http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ahWmkV0mtvk/1.jpg","height":90,"width":120,"time":"00:00:39.750","yt$name":"start"},{"url":"http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ahWmkV0mtvk/2.jpg","height":90,"width":120,"time":"00:01:19.500","yt$name":"middle"},{"url":"http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ahWmkV0mtvk/3.jpg","height":90,"width":120,"time":"00:01:59.250","yt$name":"end"}],"media$title":{"$t":"blink 182 all the small things lyrics","type":"plain"},"yt$duration":{"seconds":"159"},"yt$uploaded":{"$t":"2007-09-19T10:10:21.000Z"},"yt$uploaderId":{"$t":"UCKGRY-OpB0xZLqpTZNR418w"},"yt$videoid":{"$t":"ahWmkV0mtvk"}},"gd$rating":{"average":4.934968,"max":5,"min":1,"numRaters":17130,"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#overall"},"yt$statistics":{"favoriteCount":"0","viewCount":"6287584"},"yt$rating":{"numDislikes":"278","numLikes":"16852"}}]}});

The value of $t isn't JSON, it's a String Google is using to encode information about the ID. You could do something like this:
var vidId = root.feed.id.$t.split('video:')[1];
This gets the value of $t from the ID object, then looks for the string to the right of video:.

Reading map data from local text file using Javascript and JQuery

I'm trying to make a game in HTML5 and i'm trying to load a map level into the game from a text file through JavaScript. I've looked at a few questions already but for some reason the code isn't working. Could someone have a look and tell me if there's anything glaringly obvious?
$.get('js/mapFile.txt',function(data){
alert();
var perLine=data.split('\n');
var myVars=[];
for(i=0;i<perLine.length;i++)
{
var line=perLine[i].split(',');
myVars[i]={
'time':line[0],
'event':line[1],
'color':line[2],
'type':line[3]
}
}
document.getElementById("test").innerHTML = "" + myVars[0].time + "Jimmy";
});
this is just demo code btw, I'm gonna adapt it when I get the principal working

Use Javascript to get the list of a user's Github repositories

First of all, thanks for reading.
I am hosting my current projects on GitHub. Using GitHub Pages, I ]host my personal blog, you can reach the blog here.
On the blog, I have a page dedicated to all the projects I am currently working on. Basically, I wanted to display the list of all my on-going projects automatically, via querying GitHub.
While Googling a lot, I found that this can be achieved using JavaScript.
I tried it, but it didn't work as expected. When loading the page, I just get the text message 'Querying GitHub for repositories'. And nothing seems to happen.
I contacted GitHub maintainers, and they kindly replied that this technique uses an outdated version of the GitHub API.
As I am not experienced in JavaScript, can anyone help me to fix it ?
Regards,
Roland.
Here is the code I used inside the HTML page
<div id="opensource-projects"></div>
<!-- JavaScript to load and display repos from GitHub -->
<script src="http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery/jquery-1.4.2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/javascripts/git.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
$("#opensource-projects").loadRepositories("Yonaba");
});
</script>
Then, inside the file git.js, I have the following:
// http://aboutcode.net/2010/11/11/list-github-projects-using-javascript.html
jQuery.githubUser = function(username, callback) {
jQuery.getJSON("http://github.com/api/v1/json/" + username + "?callback=?", callback);
}
jQuery.fn.loadRepositories = function(username) {
this.html("<span>Querying GitHub for " + username +"'s repositories...</span>");
var target = this;
$.githubUser(username, function(data) {
var repos = data.user.repositories;
sortByNumberOfWatchers(repos);
var list = $('<dl/>');
target.empty().append(list);
$(repos).each(function() {
list.append('<dt>' + this.name + '</dt>');
list.append('<dd>' + this.description + '</dd>');
});
});
function sortByNumberOfWatchers(repos) {
repos.sort(function(a,b) {
return b.watchers - a.watchers;
});
}
};
#jcolebrand: Thanks for your kind help, but i didn't really get what you meant. I tried sending some command to Chrome's console, too. I guess $ is an alias for jQuery, isn't it? Well, sending same stuff The console just outputs multiple objects, describing my repos. Awesome!
I think the issue is now parsing them properly and display them. Gee, I need to learn JavaScipt syntax for that...

The script that you posted isn't working because the URL is for the older API. Change the URL to this and it should work for you.
https://api.github.com/users/YOUR_USERNAME_HERE/repos?callback=CALLBACK
Note: callback=<YOUR_CALLBACK> is optional.

http://developer.github.com/v3/ is pretty explicit on how to do this. In fact, since my username there and here are the same, let me show you.
I opened my repo page on github, https://github.com/jcolebrand (so this is evident so far) and pressed F12 in Chrome.
I interrogated to see that jQuery is indeed installed, because I like shortcuts when I'm doing examples.
I then tested $.getJSON('//api.github.com/users/jcolebrand/repos',{},function(data){console.log(data)}) exactly from the API page, as it says, and lo and behold, I was granted the five repos I see for myself.
Here are the things I have not done: I did not acquire an API key, I did not work via API, and I used my existing credentials. Keep those things in mind, but that's how to improve it going forward.

you can use a github API lib too. This lib is my favourite https://github.com/michael/github

Extending to #JColebrand's answer with the JQuery shortcut to XMLHttpRequest, $.getJson() , here is an API Call that works in 2020.
user = 'tik9'
apirepo = `https://api.github.com/users/${user}`
listrepos = document.createElement('ul')
document.getElementById('github').appendChild(listrepos)
$.getJSON(apirepo + '/repos', function (data) {
console.log('data now', data)
function compare(a, b) {
if (a.watchers > b.watchers) {
return -1
}
if (a.watchers < b.watchers) {
return 1
}
return 0
}
data.sort(compare)
data.forEach(v => {
listItemRepo = document.createElement('li')
listrepos.appendChild(listItemRepo)
hlink = document.createElement('a')
listItemRepo.appendChild(hlink)
hlink.textContent = `${v.description} | Stars: ${v.watchers}`
hlink.href = v.html_url
})
})
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.1.min.js"></script>
</head>
<h4><span id=repocount></span> Github Repositories</h4>
<div id=github></div>

Why does dojo.xhrGet needs different kinds of url to work on different computers (pc/mac)?

i'm writing an greasemonkey script for somebody else. he is a moderator and i am not. and the script will help him do some moderating things.
now the script works for me. as far as it can work for me.(as i am not a mod)
but even those things that work for me are not working for him..
i checked his version of greasemonkey plugin and firefox and he is up to date.
only thing that's really different is that i'm on a mac and he is pc, but i wouldn't think that would be any problem.
this is one of the functions that is not working for him. he does gets the first and third GM_log message. but not the second one ("got some(1) ..").
kmmh.trackNames = function(){
GM_log("starting to get names from the first "+kmmh.topAmount+" page(s) from leaderboard.");
kmmh.leaderboardlist = [];
for (var p=1; p<=(kmmh.topAmount); p++){
var page = "http://www.somegamesite.com/leaderboard?page="+ p;
var boardHTML = "";
dojo.xhrGet({
url: page,
sync: true,
load: function(response){
boardHTML = response;
GM_log("got some (1) => "+boardHTML.length);
},
handleAs: "text"
});
GM_log("got some (2) => "+boardHTML.length);
//create dummy div and place leaderboard html in there
var dummy = dojo.create('div', { innerHTML: boardHTML });
//search through it
var searchN = dojo.query('.notcurrent', dummy).forEach(function(node,index){
if(index >= 10){
kmmh.leaderboardlist.push(node.textContent); // add names to array
}
});
}
GM_log("all names from "+ kmmh.topAmount +" page(s) of leaderboard ==> "+ kmmh.leaderboardlist);
does anyone have any idea what could be causing this ??
EDIT: i know i had to write according to what he would see on his mod screen. so i asked him to copy paste source of pages and so on. and besides that, this part of the script is not depending on being a mod or not.
i got everything else working for him. just this function still doesn't on neither of his pc's.
EDIT2 (changed question): OK. so after some more trial and error, i got it to work, but it's still weird.
when i removed the www-part of the url thats being use in the dojo.xhrGet() i got the finally the same error he got. so i had him add www to his and now it works.
the odd thing is he now uses a script with the url containing "www" and i'm using a script with an url without "www"...
so for me:
var page = "http://somegamesite.com/leaderboard?page="+ p;
and for him:
var page = "http://www.somegamesite.com/leaderboard?page="+ p;

Why don't you have him try logging into an account that is not a moderator account so that you eliminate one of your variables from your problem space.
It's possible that the DOM of the page is different for a moderator than for a regular user. If you're making assumptions about the page as a regular user that are not true as a moderator, that could cause problems.
I suspect that to fix it, you may need access to a moderator account so you can more easily replicate the behavior.

ooops. it seemed that the url of this gamesite is accessible as www.gamesite.com as well as gamesite.com (without the www.part). this caused the problem.
sorry to bother you'all.
i go hide in shame now...