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jQuery alternate clicks do something

Okay, so this little bit of code either posts and then updates #arrival, or it removes it and replaces it with standard text. One click posts, one click resets. The problem I'm having, and cannot figure out, is that the code as is requires two clicks to do the initial posting, and then one click to remove and one click to post again ad infinitum. But it first requires two clicks to get to working.
Any help would be appreciated.
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#change").click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
var data = {};
$.each($('input[name^="u\\["]').serializeArray(), function() {
var vv = this.name.replace(/u/, '' ).replace(/(\[[]\])$/,'');
data[vv] = this.value;
});
var clicks = $(this).data('clicks');
if (clicks) {
// odd clicks
$.ajax({
type : "POST",
cache : false,
url : "napad.php?n=<?=$_GET['n']?>&o=<?=$_GET['o']?>&arrival",
data : {'X': data},
success: function(data) {
$("#arrival").html(data);
}
});
} else {
// even clicks
$('#arrival').contents().remove();
$('#arrival').append('Arrival Time: Normal');
}
$(this).data("clicks", !clicks);
});
});

If you saying you doesnt want it firing 2 times but you want it trigger the event one time clicking.
try to add this on you jquery function.
$("#change").unbind("click").click(function() {
// Your code
});
Let me know if it works. Thanks. :)

jQuery .bind('show') not working appropriately when element is shown via jQuery

I have a snippet in my project similar to the one seen below:
$('#field').change(function() {
var thisCondition = $(this).val();
if(thisCondition) {
$('#this_container').fadeIn();
}
});
The above snippet is working. When thisCondition evaluates to true, the container does fade in. However, I also have the snippet below that is not functioning as expected. It binds to show so that when the container fades in an event will be triggered:
$('#this_container').bind('show', function() {
$.ajax({
...
});
});
Shouldn't the snippet above react to line 5 in the change event handler? Why is the bind method not triggering?

Confirmed that show is not a valid nor jQuery-triggered event.
But you can trigger it yourself!
Try something like this :
$('#this_container').fadeIn("slow", function() {
$(this).trigger("show");
});

The show is not a valid event, neither is triggered by jQuery. You need to construct your script in a different way altogether:
$('#field').change(function() {
var thisCondition = $(this).val();
if(thisCondition) {
$.ajax({
success: function () {
$('#this_container').fadeIn();
}
});
}
});
So, you can try to bring the AJAX content, and upon a successful request, you can show the container.

try to use :
$('#this_container').fadeIn( "slow", function() {
// Animation complete
$.ajax({
...
});
});

How do I make my click catcher work?

I'm trying to create a simple click catcher where if you click .image-class the javascript will take the href from another element with a class name of .btn and send you to it's destination. Though I keep getting errors on lines 7 & 10 saying that undefined is not a function. How do I make this work?
<script>
var ClickCatcher=
{
init:function(){
var link = jQuery('.btn')[1].href;
var imgCatch = jQuery('.image-class');
imgCatch.addEventListener("click", ClickCatcher.clickListener, false);
},
clickListener:function(){
window.location = link;
}
};
ClickCatcher.init();
</script>

You can do this with jquery with a simple click event
jQuery('.image-class').on('click', function (){
window.location = jQuery('.btn').eq(1).attr('href');
});
But if you still want to write in the way you have you can do:
var ClickCatcher = {
init: function () {
jQuery('.image-class').on('click', function (){
window.location = jQuery('.btn').eq(1).attr('href');
});
}
};
ClickCatcher.init();
Just make sure to fire the init method after dom load.
update: One issue with it is that you have coded your target etc in the code rather then pass it, so its going to be hard to reuse, you'd be better off doing:
var ClickCatcher = {
init: function ($button, loc) {
$button.on('click', function (){
window.location = loc;
});
}
};
ClickCatcher.init(jQuery('.image-class'), jQuery('.btn').eq(1).attr('href'));
That way the internal working is seperate from the dom (as you are passing the dom dependencies to the function.

#atmd showed a very good way of doing this. If you just want to know what your mistake was though. It is wa an error in your jQuery stament to get the btn href
jQuery('.btn')[1].href
you need to call the attr function and then get the href attr. and use .eq(1) to reduce the set to the first btn
jQuery('.btn').eq(1).attr('href);

How to call AJAX function from a popup appeared using "Colorbox - a jQuery lightbox plugin"?

I'm using PHP,Smarty, jQuery, Colorbox jQuery plugin, etc. for my website. All the necessary files required have been included in index.tpl file, so I've not mentioned those files here. They are getting included and working fine.
From one smarty template file I'm calling the Colorbox popup. The code for it is as follows:
edit
{literal}
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$(".inline_edit_transaction_details").colorbox({href:$(this).attr('href'),width:999, height:999});
});
</script>
{/literal}
The lightbox is also getting displayed properly. For your reference I'm attaching the screenshot here.
Now I want to call a jQuery AJAX function upon clicking on Update link as shown in the attached image. For testing purpose I put an alert message at the beginning of AJAX function but not able to call it. For your reference I'm putting the code from smarty template below.
The code from the Colorbox popup(Smarty template) is as follows:
<td><a class="edit_user_transaction_status" href="{$control_url}{$query_path}?op=edit_user_transaction&page={$page}&txn_no={$user_transaction_details.transaction_no}&transaction_data_assign={$user_transaction_details.transaction_data_assign}&user_id={$user_id}{if $user_name!=''}&user_name={$user_name}{/if}{if $user_email_id!=''}&user_email_id={$user_email_id}{/if}{if $user_group!=''}&user_group={$user_group}&{/if}{if $user_sub_group!=''}&user_sub_group={$user_sub_group}{/if}{if $from_date!=''}&from_date={$from_date}{/if}{if $to_date!=''}&to_date={$to_date}{/if}{if $transaction_status!=''}&transaction_status={$transaction_status}{/if}{if $transaction_no!=''}&transaction_no={$transaction_no}{/if}">Update</a></td>
The jQuery AJAX function is as below:
$(document).ready(function() {
//This function is use for edit transaction status
$(".edit_user_transaction_status").click(function() { alert("Hello");
$(".edit_user_transaction_status").bind('click', function(){
$.colorbox.close();
});
e.preventDefault();
//for confirmation that status change
var ans=confirm("Are you sure to change status?");
if(!ans) {
return false;
}
var post_url = $(this).attr('href');
var transaction_status_update = $('#transaction_status_update').val();
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: post_url+"&transaction_status_update="+transaction_status_update,
data:$('#transaction_form').serialize(),
dataType: 'json',
success: function(data) {
var error = data.login_error;
$(".ui-widget-content").dialog("close");
//This variables use for display title and success massage of transaction update
var dialog_title = data.title;
var dialog_message = data.success_massage;
//This get link where want to rerdirect
var redirect_link = data.href;
var $dialog = $("<div class='ui-state-success'></div>")
.html("<p class='ui-state-error-success'>"+dialog_message+"</p>")
.dialog({
autoOpen: false,
modal:true,
title: dialog_title,
width: 500,
height: 80,
close: function(){
document.location.href =redirect_link;
}
});
$dialog.dialog('open');
}
});
});
});
I tried a lot to make a call to this function but couldn't give a call. It's also not giving any errors when I checked in console of firebug. So I think no syntactic errors are there. Can anyone help me in calling this function? Thanks in advance.

$(".edit_user_transaction_status").click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault(); // apply in click event not outside
alert("Hello");
});
or
$(".edit_user_transaction_status").bind('click', function(e){
e.preventDefault(); // apply in click event not outside
$.colorbox.close();
});
reference e.preventDefault

How to place a jQuery snippet into a global file

I have a JavaScript file here http://www.problemio.com/js/problemio.js and I am trying to place some jQuery code into it that looks like this:
$(document).ready(function()
{
queue = new Object;
queue.login = false;
var $dialog = $('#loginpopup')
.dialog({
autoOpen: false,
title: 'Login Dialog'
});
var $problemId = $('#theProblemId', '#loginpopup');
$("#newprofile").click(function ()
{
$("#login_div").hide();
$("#newprofileform").show();
});
// Called right away after someone clicks on the vote up link
$('.vote_up').click(function()
{
var problem_id = $(this).attr("data-problem_id");
queue.voteUp = $(this).attr('problem_id');
voteUp(problem_id);
//Return false to prevent page navigation
return false;
});
var voteUp = function(problem_id)
{
alert ("In vote up function, problem_id: " + problem_id );
queue.voteUp = problem_id;
var dataString = 'problem_id=' + problem_id + '&vote=+';
if ( queue.login = false)
{
// Call the ajax to try to log in...or the dialog box to log in. requireLogin()
}
else
{
// The person is actually logged in so lets have him vote
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "/problems/vote.php",
dataType: "json",
data: dataString,
success: function(data)
{
alert ("vote success, data: " + data);
// Try to update the vote count on the page
//$('p').each(function()
//{
//on each paragraph in the page:
// $(this).find('span').each()
// {
//find each span within the paragraph being iterated over
// }
//}
},
error : function(data)
{
alert ("vote error");
errorMessage = data.responseText;
if ( errorMessage == "not_logged_in" )
{
//set the current problem id to the one within the dialog
$problemId.val(problem_id);
// Try to create the popup that asks user to log in.
$dialog.dialog('open');
alert ("after dialog was open");
// prevent the default action, e.g., following a link
return false;
}
else
{
alert ("not");
}
} // End of error case
}
}); // Closing AJAX call.
};
$('.vote_down').click(function()
{
alert("down");
problem_id = $(this).attr("data-problem_id");
var dataString = 'problem_id='+ problem_id + '&vote=-';
//Return false to prevent page navigation
return false;
});
$('#loginButton', '#loginpopup').click(function()
{
alert("in login button fnction");
$.ajax({
url:'url to do the login',
success:function() {
//now call cote up
voteUp($problemId.val());
}
});
});
});
</script>
There are two reasons why I am trying to do that:
1) I am guessing this is just good practice (hopefully it will be easier to keep track of my global variables, etc.
2) More importantly, I am trying to call the voteUp(someId) function in the original code from the problemio.js file, and I am getting an error that it is an undefined function, so I figured I'd have better luck calling that function if it was in a global scope. Am I correct in my approach?
So can I just copy/paste the code I placed into this question into the problemio.js file, or do I have to remove certain parts of it like the opening/closing tags? What about the document.ready() function? Should I just have one of those in the global file? Or should I have multiple of them and that won't hurt?
Thanks!!

1) I am guessing this is just good practice (hopefully it will be
easier to keep track of my global variables, etc.
Yes and no, you now have your 'global' variables in one spot but the chances that you're going to collide with 'Global' variables (ie those defined by the browser) have increased 100% :)
For example say you decided to have a variable called location, as soon as you give that variable a value the browser decides to fly off to another URL because location is a reserved word for redirecting.
The solution to this is to use namespacing, as described here
2) More importantly, I am trying to call the voteUp(someId) function
in the original code from the problemio.js file, and I am getting an
error that it is an undefined function, so I figured I'd have better
luck calling that function if it was in a global scope. Am I correct
in my approach?
Here's an example using namespacing that will call the voteUp function:
(function($) {
var myApp = {};
$('.vote_up').click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
myApp.voteUp();
});
myApp.voteUp = function() {
console.log("vote!");
}
})(jQuery);
What about the document.ready() function? Should I just have one of
those in the global file? Or should I have multiple of them and that
won't hurt?
You can have as many document.ready listeners as you need, you are not overriding document.ready you are listening for that event to fire and then defining what will happen. You could even have them in separate javascript files.

Be sure your page is finding the jquery file BEFORE this file is included in the page. If jquery is not there first you will get function not defined. Otherwise, you might have other things conflicting with your jquery, I would look into jquery noConflict.
var j = jQuery.noConflict();
as seen here:
http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.noConflict/
Happy haxin
_wryteowl

Extending what KreeK has already provided: there's no need to define your "myApp" within the document ready function. Without testing, I don't know off the top of my head if doing so is a potential source for scope issues. However, I CAN say that the pattern below will not have scope problems. If this doesn't work, the undefined is possibly a script-loading issue (loading in the right order, for example) rather than scope.
var myApp = myApp || {}; // just adds extra insurance, making sure "myApp" isn't taken
myApp.voteUp = function() {
console.log("vote!");
}
$(function() { // or whatever syntax you prefer for document ready
$('.vote_up').click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
myApp.voteUp();
});
});