I am trying to make an external widget that will allow users on other sites to make a "vote", which I want to collect and store in my DB. I am trying to integrate this with my controllers/models in Laravel. However, when I place the javascript tag and the div on another site, the info is not being displayed. Right now I am trying to just pass simple info with jsonp. Here is the code:
WidgetController.php:
<?php
class WidgetController extends BaseController {
public function external_widget() {
$data = "{Hello World!}";
if(array_key_exists('callback', $_GET)){
header('Content-Type: text/javascript; charset=utf8');
header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://www.example.com/');
header('Access-Control-Max-Age: 3628800');
header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE');
$callback = $_GET['callback'];
echo $callback.'('.$data.');';
}else{
// normal JSON string
header('Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf8');
echo $data;
}
}
}
widgetscript.js:
(function() {
// Localize jQuery variable
var jQuery;
if (window.jQuery === undefined || window.jQuery.fn.jquery !== '1.11.0') {
var script_tag = document.createElement('script');
script_tag.setAttribute("type","text/javascript");
script_tag.setAttribute("src","//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js");
if (script_tag.readyState) {
script_tag.onreadystatechange = function () { // For old versions of IE
if (this.readyState == 'complete' || this.readyState == 'loaded') {
scriptLoadHandler();
}
};
} else { // Other browsers
script_tag.onload = scriptLoadHandler;
}
// Try to find the head, otherwise default to the documentElement
(document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0] || document.documentElement).appendChild(script_tag);
} else {
// The jQuery version on the window is the one we want to use
jQuery = window.jQuery;
main();
}
/******** Called once jQuery has loaded ******/
function scriptLoadHandler() {
// Restore $ and window.jQuery to their previous values and store the
// new jQuery in our local jQuery variable
jQuery = window.jQuery.noConflict(true);
// Call our main function
main();
}
/******** Our main function ********/
function main() {
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
/******* Load CSS *******/
var css_link = $("<link>", {
rel: "stylesheet",
type: "text/css",
href: "widgetstyle.css"
});
css_link.appendTo('head');
/******* Load HTML *******/
var jsonp_url = "http://myurl.com/widget/external_widget?callback=?";
$.getJSON(jsonp_url, function(data) {
$('#example-widget-container').html("This data comes from another server: " + data.html);
});
});
}
})(); // We call our anonymous function immediately
widgetstyle.css is left blank for now.
The relevant route:
Route::get('/widget/external_widget', array('uses' => 'WidgetController@external_widget'));
Finally, I try to call this on another web page with:
<div id="example-widget-container"></div>
The "hello world" i'm trying to print out on another website is not displaying. Any ideas what issues are going on?