I'm having trouble implementing history.js
I have a single page website that uses a jquery slider (royal slider) to slide full page divs that act as pages. The slider is operated using custom links. What I would like to do is have each link manipulate the browser history in order to 1. change the page URL. and 2. push states to the browser that are refreshable and can be navigated to and from via the browser's forward and back buttons.
What I'm not sure about is whether any pushstate will save the sliders current slide?
It's not essential if not, as the change in URL is the main thing.
Each link is controlled via a javascript click function that looks like this...
var workclick = document.getElementById('worklink');
workclick.onclick = function () {
thefooter.style.opacity = "1";
thefooter.style.filter = 'alpha(opacity=100)';
thefootdivide.style.opacity = "1";
thefootdivide.style.filter = 'alpha(opacity=100)';
$(".royalSlider").royalSlider('goTo', 1);
}
Can somebody help me with what I need to add to my page to get history.js to work with what I have here?
Thanks so much for any help
I am not an expert on History.js, but my understanding is that once it's installed, each time a slider value is changed you could call replaceState() with url parameters that reflect their values something like :
History.replaceState( null, 'My Title', '?slider1=' + $('#slider1').value );
And then, when your page loads have it read these request parameter values and (if present) set the sliders accordingly.
Again I'm not sure this is exactly what you need but I'm pretty sure it's on the right track.
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I'm trying to tweak the WordPress plugin https://github.com/algolia/algoliasearch-wordpress to suit our needs. What we want to be able to do is have a search result that will load the data up in the same page.
I have my WordPress posts and its data being indexed successfully. I have added a search box to the page, and autocomplete is being fired.
Out of the box, the WordPress plugin template wraps the result in an anchor tag and assigns it the URL of the found result. When clicked, this navigates you to that post. However, what I want to do is intercept that click and load the result in the same page without navigating away.
I have removed the href from the anchor. I have also edited the supplied autocomplete.php template where the call to autocomplete:selected occurs. In there I have removed the call to navigate away by removing window.location.href.
Now I have two main issues.
1 - When the user clicks the search result I would like the input to be populate with the title of the item they clicked on. I added this in the autocomplete:selected callback by adding $searchInput[0].value = suggestion.post_title. Which seems to change the value of the input correctly, but as soon as I click away from the input, it is re-set back to the original typed value. So if I type 'may' and click the result 'mayonnaise', the result data can be accessed but the input returns back to 'may'. My function looks this:
/* Instantiate autocomplete.js */
var autocomplete = algoliaAutocomplete($searchInput[0], config, sources)
.on('autocomplete:selected', function (e, suggestion) {
console.log(suggestion);
autocomplete.autocomplete.close();
});
2 - It seems that the autocomplete dropdown does not hide when the user clicks away. To resolve this i've had to use what I think is a bit of a nasty hack with jQuery. I was wondering if this is really required? My code just below the autocomplete:selected call looks like this:
jQuery('body').on("click", function(event){
if (!jQuery(event.target).closest($searchInput[0]).length) {
autocomplete.autocomplete.close();
}
});
Found some answers to my questions.
1 - In order to populate the input with the title of the selected search result I added a call to the setVal method of the autocomplete object. I'[m still not sure why this is required.
/* Instantiate autocomplete.js */
var autocomplete = algoliaAutocomplete($searchInput[0], config, sources)
.on('autocomplete:selected', function (e, suggestion) {
autocomplete.autocomplete.setVal(suggestion.post_title);
});
2 - It looks like the config of the autocomplete object uses the value of WP_DEBUG in order to set the debug value. The options available for the autocomplete component can be found here https://github.com/algolia/autocomplete.js#options. This lead me to find that when debug is set to true, the autocomplete box does not hide on selection. This is to allow for easier debugging and styling of the component.
So I would like to be able to have a print button for entries in our database so users can print an entry via a print friendly "form".
My thought was to create a separate page, add labels and have those labels pull the relevant information.
I know I can add the open widget information via this code:
app.datasources.ModelName.selectKey(widget.datasource.item._key);
app.showPage(app.pages.TestPrint);
But I'm running into a few problems:
I can't get the page to open in a new window. Is this possible?
window.open(app.pages.TestPrint);
Just gives me a blank page. Does the browser lose the widget source once the new window opens?
I can't get the print option (either onClick or onDataLoad) to print JUST the image (or widget). I run
window.print();
And it includes headers + scroll bars. Do I need to be running a client side script instead?
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!
To get exactly what you'd want you'd have to do a lot of work.
Here is my suggested, simpler answer:
Don't open up a new tab. If you use showPage like you mention, and provide a "back" button on the page to go back to where you were, you'll get pretty much everything you need. If you don't want the back to show up when you print, then you can setVisibility(false) on the button before you print, then print, then setVisibility(true).
I'll give a quick summary of how you could do this with a new tab, but it's pretty involved so I can't go into details without trying it myself. The basic idea, is you want to open the page with a full URL, just like a user was navigating to it.
You can use #TestPrint to indicate which page you want to load. You also need the URL of your application, which as far as I can remember is only available in a server-side script using the Apps Script method: ScriptApp.getService().getUrl(). On top of this, you'll probably need to pass in the key so that your page knows what data to load.
So given this, you need to assemble a url by calling a server script, then appending the key property to it. In the end you want a url something like:
https://www.script.google.com/yourappaddress#TestPage?key=keyOfYourModel.
Then on TestPage you need to read the key, and load data for that key. (You can read the key using google.script.url).
Alternatively, I think there are some tricks you can play by opening a blank window and then writing directly to its DOM, but I've never tried that, and since Apps Script runs inside an iframe I'm not sure if it's possible. If I get a chance I'll play with it and update this answer, but for your own reference you could look here: create html page and print to new tab in javascript
I'm imagining something like that, except that your page an write it's html content. Something like:
var winPrint = window.open('', '_blank', 'left=0,top=0,width=800,height=600,toolbar=0,scrollbars=0,status=0');
winPrint.document.write(app.pages.TestPage.getElement().innerHTML);
winPrint.document.close();
winPrint.focus();
winPrint.print();
winPrint.close();
Hope one of those three options helps :)
So here is what I ended up doing. It isn't elegant, but it works.
I added a Print Button to a Page Fragment that pops up when a user edits a database entry.
Database Edit Button code:
app.datasources.ModelName.selectKey(widget.datasource.item._key);
app.showDialog(app.pageFragments.FragmentName);
That Print Button goes to a different (full) Page and closes the Fragment.
Print Button Code:
app.datasources.ModelName.selectKey(widget.datasource.item._key);
app.showPage(app.pages.ModelName_Print);
app.closeDialog();
I made sure to make the new Print Page was small enough so that Chrome fits it properly into a 8.5 x 11" page (728x975).
I then created a Panel that fills the page and populated the page with Labels
#datasource.item.FieldName
I then put the following into the onDataLoad for the Panel
window.print();
So now when the user presses the Print Button in the Fragment they are taken to this new page and after the data loads they automatically get a print dialog.
The only downside is that after printing the user has to use a back button I added to return to the database page.
1.
As far as I know, you cannot combine window.open with app.pages.*, because
window.open would require url parameter at least, while app.pages.* is essentially an internal routing mechanism provided by App Maker, and it returns page object back, suitable for for switching between pages, or opening dialogs.
2.
You would probably need to style your page first, so like it includes things you would like to have printed out. To do so please use #media print
ex: We have a button on the page and would like to hide it from print page
#media print {
.app-NewPage-Button1 {
display : none;
}
}
Hope it helps.
1. Here is how it is done, in a pop up window, without messing up the current page (client script):
function print(widget, title){
var content=widget.getElement().innerHTML;
var win = window.open('', 'printWindow', 'height=600,width=800');
win.document.write('<head><title>'+title+'/title></head>');
win.document.write('<body>'+content+'</body>');
win.document.close();
win.focus();
win.print();
win.close();
}
and the onclick handler for the button is:
print(widget.root.descendants.PageFragment1, 'test');
In this example, PageFragment1 is a page fragment on the current page, hidden by adding a style with namehidden with definition .hidden{display:none;} (this is different than visible which in App Maker seems to remove the item from the DOM). Works perfectly...
2. You cannot open pages from the app in another tab. In principle something like this would do it:
var w=window.parent.parent;
w.open(w.location.protocol+'//'+w.location.host+w.location.pathname+'#PrintPage', '_blank');
But since the app is running in frame nested two deep from the launching page, and with a different origin, you will not be able to access the url that you need (the above code results in a cross origin frame access error). So you would have to hard code the URL, which changes at deployment, so it gets ugly very fast. Not that you want to anyway, the load time of an app should discourage you from wanting to do that anyway.
I am following this example https://kadira.io/academy/meteor-routing-guide/content/rendering-blaze-templates
When I click on my links the whole page is being reloaded. Is there any way to load only the template part that is needed and not the whole page?
Edit: Also I noted another problem. Everything that is outside {{> Template.dynamic}} is being rendered twice.
Here is my project sample. https://github.com/hayk94/UbMvp/tree/routing
EDIT: Putting the contents in the mainLayout template and starting the rendering from there fixed the double render problems. However the reload problems happen because of this code
Template.mainLayout.events({
"click *": function(event, template){
event.stopPropagation();
console.log('body all click log');
// console.log(c0nnIp);
var clickedOne = $(event.target).html().toString();
console.log('This click ' + clickedOne);
//getting the connID
var clientIp = null // headers.getClientIP(); // no need for this anymore
var clientConnId = Meteor.connection._lastSessionId;
console.log(clientIp);
console.log(clientConnId);
Meteor.call("updateDB", {clientIp,clientConnId,clickedOne}, function(error, result){
if(error){
console.log("error", error);
}
if(result){
}
});
}, // click *
});//events
Without this event attached to the template the routing works without any reloads, however as soon as I attach it the problem persists.
Do you have any ideas why this code causes such problems?
EDIT 2 following question Rev 3:
event.stopPropagation() on "click *" event probably prevents the router from intercepting the click on link.
Then your browser performs the default behaviour, i.e. navigates to that link, reloading the whole page.
EDIT following question Rev 2:
Not sure you can directly use your body as BlazeLayout target layout.
Notice in the first code sample of BlazeLayout Usage that they use an actual template as layout (<template name="layout1">), targeted in JS as BlazeLayout.render('layout1', {});.
In the tutorial you mention, they similarly use <template name="mainLayout">.
That layout template is then appended to your page's body and filled accordingly. You can also change the placeholder for that layout with BlazeLayout.setRoot() by the way.
But strange things may happen if you try to directly target the body? In particular, that may explain why you have content rendered twice.
Original answer:
If your page is actually reloaded, then your router might not be configured properly, as your link is not being intercepted and your browser makes you actually navigate to that page. In that case, we would need to see your actual code if you need further help.
In case your page does not actually reload, but only your whole content is changed (whereas you wanted to change just a part of it), then you should make sure you properly point your dynamic templates.
You can refer to kadira:blaze-layout package doc to see how you set up different dynamic template targets in your layout, and how you can change each of them separately (or several of them simultaneously).
You should have something similar in case you use kadira:react-layout package.
I've just started using the tag cloud feature for a new site i'm developing.
but now I've run into some problems
I can set the links in my tag cloud to go to a page, but I have many pages with a tab container.
so for instance, I have a tab container. one of its panels is a sports panel. the tab container has three other panels, say food, travel and drinks.
how do I make a tag that goes directly to that panel in the tab container?
really stuck here.
tried creating a normal a id="something" name="something", and tried creating the tags a href to that name with a #, but that didn't work.
could somebody please help me
would, of course, be greatly appreciated
A # is your best bet. So for example if you set up your link to appear as:
Link text
Then you can bind to the "hash change" event using javascript. jQuery example below.
// on load
jQuery(document).ready(function(){
// bind window hashchange event
jQuery(window).bind("hashchange", function(){
// get hash selected
var hash = window.location.hash;
// *** now do something with that information *** //
// *** eg, show hide panels where a nested element, attribute or data matches hash *** //
});
});
If you're doing it this way you should make all the "tab clicks" simply bound hash changes too, forgetting any previous functionality. Then it will be solid, and consistent.
You could also do the same using query strings. And if you're not a fan of the "hashchange" then do it another way. The key is that you would have a javascript function that looks for something in the url, then does something about it!
EDIT
Add to the "do something section" assuming all your tabs are of the same class and the hash is the same name as the ID
jQuery(".tabs").hide();
jQuery("#" + hash).show();
I've been playing around with the new media manager in WordPress and had some fun with it, but have reached the point where I'm banging my head against a wall.
I have a custom meta box that I'd like to store some images in (well it's a hidden input and I'm currently storing their ID's, but could equally be the image objects), then making an AJAX call to show some thumbnails, which I have subsequently made draggable so users can reorder (not necessarily relevant just some background).
My problem is that when I open the media manager, no images are selected, so if a user wants to edit the pictures in their gallery they need to select them all again.
What I'm trying to figure out, is how do I open the media manager with the current images passed through so they are pre-selected.
So, broadly, my code looks like this
jQuery('#myButton').click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
frame = wp.media({
title : 'My Gallery Title',
multiple : true,
library : { type : 'image'},
button : { text : 'Insert' },
});
frame.on('close',function() {
// get selections and save to hidden input plus other AJAX stuff etc.
}
frame.open();
});
My thought is that there must be either a parameter to pass into the frame (probably a JSON object of the images, or I need to create an event for
frame.on('open', function() {
// Set selected images
}
But I have tried both ways round and am not getting anywhere.
It would appear possible, as changing the 'Featured Image' takes you to the library with the current one selected - I've just been unable to understand the core code sufficiently yet and hope someone else has !
After studying the core for a bit, the answer here is really quite straightforward.
Listen for the open event of the wp.media object, grab the state, create attachment objects with your id's and add them to the selection.
frame.on('open',function() {
var selection = frame.state().get('selection');
var ids_value = jQuery('#my_field_id').val();
if(ids_value.length > 0) {
var ids = ids_value.split(',');
ids.forEach(function(id) {
attachment = wp.media.attachment(id);
attachment.fetch();
selection.add(attachment ? [attachment] : []);
});
}
});
This works when selecting multiple images as well as single and assumes that using the code above you have stored the values in a single text/hidden field with comma separation.
not a real answer, but somethings that I have noticed
using your code the frame.open( console.log('open') ) does trigger the console.log.
The other frame.on('open', function() { console.log('on->open')}) does not.
When looking at the post edit page. (Where a featured image is already set).
If you open the featured img window a few things happen that are interesting.
WP does 3 ajax calls, the 1st and 3rst contain the featured img id. the 2nd is the same as with your code.
when the popup is loaded the featured image is visible / loaded before the rest of the images. When those show up the featured image is put in the right order.
When looking in firebug at the dom tab I discovered that the var wp.media.model.settings.post.featuredImageId holds (wait for it) the featured image value.
Hopes this helps you in some way.
I think those guy manage to do it :
https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/76125/change-the-default-view-of-media-library-in-3-5/76213#76213
But this doesn't work for me.
I ve got the jquery in the footer of my post/edit, post/new but that just don't work for me :(