If I embed my XHR file into my HTML document directly, everything works fine. As soon as I src it via
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/ajax_gallery.js">ajax_json_gallery('gallery');</script>
Nothing works, and I get no errors. I'm assuming it's something to do with the XHR being created in a separate file to the HTML. I just don't like XHR script cluttering up my HTML, I just want to load as an external JS file.
I've moved my main 3 scripts, galleryHandle.php, XHR.js, ajax_gallery.html all to the same dir level to keep things simple. And the gallery images are in a folder called "gallery", also on the same level.
Here's my code: HTML
<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/gallery.css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="pagetop"></div>
<div id="thumbnailbox"></div>
<div id="pictureframe"></div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="XHR.js">ajax_json_gallery('gallery');</script>
</body>
</html>
JavaScript
function ajax_json_gallery(folder) {
"use strict";
var httpRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
document.getElementById("pagetop").innerHTML = "dynamic ajax json gallery";
var thumbnailbox = document.getElementById("thumbnailbox");
httpRequest.open("POST", "galleryHandle.php", true);
httpRequest.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
httpRequest.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (httpRequest.readyState === 4 && httpRequest.status === 200) {
var data = JSON.parse(httpRequest.responseText);
var pictureframe;
pictureframe.innerHTML = "<img src='"+data.img1.src+"'>";
thumbnailbox.innerHTML = "";
for (var obj in data) {
if (data[obj].src){
thumbnailbox.innerHTML += '<div onclick="putinframe(\''+data[obj].src+'\')"><img src="'+data[obj].src+'"></div>';
}
}
}
};
httpRequest.send("folder="+folder);
thumbnailbox.innerHTML = "Loading...";
}
function putinframe(src) {
"use strict";
var pictureframe = document.getElementById("pictureframe");
pictureframe.innerHTML = '<img src = " '+src+' " >';
}
PHP
<?php
header("Content-Type: application/json");
//bring in folder name
$folder = $_POST["folder"];
//start componding json
$jsonData = '{';
//compound directory path
$dir = $folder."/";
//open directory
$dirHandle = opendir($dir);
//init while looop
$i = 0;
while ($file = readdir($dirHandle)) {
if(!is_dir($file) && strpos($file, '.jpg')){
$i++;
$src = "$dir$file";
$jsonData .= '"img'.$i.'":{ "num":"'.$i.'","src":"'.$src.'", "name":"'.$file.'" },';
}
}
closedir($dirHandle);
$jsonData = chop($jsonData, ",");
$jsonData .= '}';
echo $jsonData;
?>
I understand there are some redundancies in my code but it's just a tutorial I'm going through to learn the basics of JSON building with POST, XHR.
Anyway, help appreciated as always. Thanks
