function in linked js file 'is not defined'

John K. King · May 6th, 2004, 02:32 PM

Hi:

I'm trying to set up an ecommerce site.

I've set up a new web server on my Win2000 machine, something I've never had a need to do before. I am doing this because I am in a remote location and none of the company's other machines are available to me to use as a development environment.

I've run into a snag in that I can't seem to get linked javascript files to be recognized by my web pages. If I move the web pages to another web server, they seem to work fine. On my machine, I get 'fred is not defined' in the Javascript console (Netscape).

If I embed the 'fred' function in the <head> section, and attach is to the onchange event of a text box, it works fine.

<script language="javascript">

</script>

If I embed the javascript file in the <head> section using 'include' and pointing to the javascript file, it works fine.

<script language="javascript">

</script>

But if I use

<script language="javascript" src="./controlfunctions.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

I'm guessing it's a configuration issue, but I can't find what it might be.

If it's helpful, here is a sample of how it's attached to the event

<td class=copysmall><input type=text name=item1qty id=item1qty value=0 style=font-size:10px; size=3 maxlength=3 onchange='fred()'></td>

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your time.

JK

Snib · May 6th, 2004, 02:38 PM

Place this line in the .js file to test it:

alert();

I assume it won't work. Maybe you need to refresh. Check here to see what I'm talking about.

Until this gets fixed you can just do that include virtual, if it doesn't get in the way.

HTH,

Snib

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John K. King · May 6th, 2004, 06:35 PM

Well, what I'm pretty sure of is that the file is not being found for some reason.

There is an error coming up in the Javascript Console that reads:

Error: syntax error
Source File: http://jkkpcnew/chronologystore/fred.js
Line: 1
Source Code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">

The source file is a link, which, if you click on it, produces:

----------------------------------------------

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
<html dir=ltr>

<head>
<style>
a:link {font:8pt/11pt verdana; color:FF0000}
a:visited {font:8pt/11pt verdana; color:#4e4e4e}
</style>

<meta NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX">

<title>The page cannot be found</title>

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" Content="text-html; charset=Windows-1252">
</head>

<script>
function Homepage(){
<!--
// in real bits, urls get returned to our script like this:
// res://shdocvw.dll/http_404.htm#http://www.DocURL.com/bar.htm

//For testing use DocURL = "res://shdocvw.dll/http_404.htm#ht

-------------------------------------------------------

which you may or may not recognize as the ASP Error 404 page, file not found.

So, when loading the requested page, it's looking for 'fred.js', not finding it, grabbing the 'ASP Error 404' page and squawking about the DOCTYPE line in that file. Squawking because it's finding an HTML file and not a Javascript text file?

I'm confused. I'm pretty sure this is a configuration issue of some sort I'm poking around the documentation, but I really don't know where to begin to look.

Thanks,

JK

Snib · May 6th, 2004, 06:38 PM

What about the '.' before the '/controlfunctions.js'? Or am I missing something obvious (again)?

Snib

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John K. King · May 7th, 2004, 09:04 PM

Hi Snib:

Well, the dot (.) before the '/controlfunctions.js' should only mean 'current directory', just like two dots (..) would represent the parent directory.

For now, I've given up on finding the reason for the problem and I'm accessing the javascript functions by using the #include workaround.

Sure would like to know what the story is though.

Thanks,
JK