Using data in a script
13 posts by 3 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder
Last Post: August 5, 2009 (RSS)
By Roj - July 31, 2009
I am creating a website where I have 6 images and when I mouse over each image it changes the text on the page.
I have this working using a small script but when I replace the 6 pieces of text with the code to get the data from CMS Builder nothing works. No sure if I can use php in javascript. perhaps this is the problem.
Any ideas on how I can get this to work? Here's the web page http://waittandco.sc14.co.uk/
Re: [Roj] Using data in a script
By Dave - July 31, 2009
The quickest way to resolve javascript issues is to:
a) Save the page as html
b) Open it in your browser and look at your javascript error console
c) Figure out where the errors are in the html version, then update the PHP version to match.
One thing I saw was this:
onover('<p><strong>English ... pede.</p>')">
You need quotes (which I added in red) around the value you pass to the onover() javascript function.
Hope that helps!
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Re: [Dave] Using data in a script
By Roj - August 1, 2009
Thanks for your reply.
I have tried this with the quotes but it still does not work.
If I use normal text the script works onmouseover="onover('here is some text')"
When I replace the text it does not work onmouseover="onover('<?php echo $home_pageRecord['english_text'] ?>')"
here is the script
function onover(what){
document.getElementById('maintext').innerHTML=''+what+'';
}
Any ideas?
Roj
Re: [Roj] Using data in a script
By Roj - August 1, 2009
I have got this working by changing the field type from wysiwyg to text box. but I can not add any formating.
If I add and html ie <br/> it stops working.
Any ideas?
Roj
Re: [Roj] Using data in a script
By Roj - August 2, 2009
I have got this working now except when I use </p><p> in the text.
Using the wysiwyg editor in CMS Builder, when you add a carriage return it creates white space between </p> and <p> which causes it not to work. If I use <br /><br /> it all works fine.
See http://waittandco.sc14.co.uk/index.html The second flag, (the French one) uses </p><p> as does not work, all other flags use <br /><br /> and work OK.
Regards
Roj
Re: [Roj] Using data in a script
By ross - August 3, 2009
Thanks for the update!
Glad to see you kept the ball rolling. With the <p> tags, there are going to be a couple different options.
One, you could use some CSS to change how <p> tags work. How comfortable are you working with HTML and CSS?
The second option would be to use some PHP to replace the <p> tags in your CMS Builder content with <br> tags. How comfortable are you working with PHP.
I can walk you through either option so just let me know which one you like the sounds of and we'll go from there.
Thanks!
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Re: [ross] Using data in a script
By Roj - August 3, 2009
Yes I am happy changing some php, html or css.
After more testing its not just <p> that causes a problem
If you add underline this makes a real mess the same as if you add an image.
The <hr> tag just stops things working. Yet Bold and italics work OK.
So most html tags seem to cause a problem.
The only html tags that I have teated that work OK are <br /> <em> and <strong>
Roj
Re: [Roj] Using data in a script
By Dave - August 3, 2009
I think it's the enters and the single quotes that are causing problems. Try this (new code in red):
...onover('<?php echo addcslashes($record['yourFieldName'], "\\'\\\"\n\r") ?>')">What the addcslashes($variable, "\\'\\\"\n\r") does is add a backslash before ' and " and shows enters as \n which javascript understands as a enter (also called nextline).
Let me know if that works for you. If not attach your viewer file and post an url to the page and we'll take a look.
Hope that helps!
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Re: [Dave] Using data in a script
By Roj - August 4, 2009
By using the addcslashes the following tags now work
<p> <hr>
Still have problems with underline, images and hyperlinks.
Do you think it would be possible to use some php script instead of javascript?
Roj
Re: [Roj] Using data in a script
By Dave - August 4, 2009
It's not possible to do without javascript, but shouldn't take much more.
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