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Hallo,

when creating functions (in the sense of grouping jQuery commands together) is it better to do it within the "document ready" or outside?

Thx, willi

If you're grouping in a function, then you're welcome to do it anywhere - I generally do it outside of "document ready". --Jeresig 15:03, 3 September 2007 (PDT)

tablesorter tutorial

The tablesorter section isn't quite right. I downloaded the tablesorter 2.0 and was able to get half of that tutorial section running.

   $("#large").tablesorter();

rather than .tableSorter();

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However, the striping I could not figure out how to make work. I found that striping has been rolled into the zebra widget with the new 2.0, However, adding:

   $("#large").tablesorter({
       widgets: ['zebra']
   });

like on the tablesorter page did not result in a striped table. I also tried adding an 'odd' css class in screen.css but that didn't fix it either.

Rate Me: Using AJAX

Hi all

I've a version related problem or so it seems... I tried the Rate me example, and it works fine in firefox and opera, but not in msie (7). when i try the online example it's works all right, but that's jquery version 1.1.2, while the current version is 1.2.3. The rating is entered in the dat-file, so everything appears to work, but the interface then shows:

Thanks for rating, current average: , number of votes:''  

(so, no vars are printed). At first i thought it was MSIE related, but the online version (1.1.2) works fine, so i guess it must be a problem in the library.

Anyone allready seen and/or solved this?

Regards Michaël

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Hi everybody, I'm completely new in Javascript and Jquery, but I'm working on the tutorials to getting used to the language...

I have some problems with the ajax part... I copied the rate.php on my lokal server so I can reach it with http://localhost/rate.php and I changed the jquery-code in the following way:

   // generate markup
   $("#rating").append("Please rate: ");
   
   for ( var i = 1; i <= 5; i++ )
       $("#rating").append("<a href='#'>" + i + "</a> ");
   // add markup to container and apply click handlers to anchors
   $("#rating a").click(function(e){
       // send request
       $.post("http://localhost/rate.php", {rating: $(this).html()}, function(xml) {
           // format and output result
           $("#rating").html(
               "Thanks for rating, current average: " +
               $("average", xml).text() +
               ", number of votes: " +
               $("count", xml).text()
           );  
       });
       // stop normal link click
       return false;
   });

The html document is getting updated and the script appends the 1 2 3 4 5 and so on in the container, but after click on the numbers, nothing happend...

I looked in the firefox-error-list and I found one error: ret[i].getElementsByTagName is not a function

And I can not get any output of the php-script, and I think I have to create a file with some ratings first, shouldn't I?

Thanks for any help

This is the php file i use...

 <?php
 
 define('STORE', 'ratings.dat');
 
 function put_contents($file,$content) {
     $f = fopen($file,"w");
     fwrite($f,$content);
     fclose($f);
 }
 
 if(isset($_REQUEST["rating"])) {
     $rating = $_REQUEST["rating"];
     $storedRatings = unserialize(file_get_contents(STORE));
     $storedRatings[] = $rating;
     put_contents(STORE, serialize($storedRatings));
     $average = round(array_sum($storedRatings) / count($storedRatings), 2);
     $count = count($storedRatings);
     $xml = "<ratings><average>$average</average><count>$count</count></ratings>";
     header('Content-type: text/xml');
     echo $xml;
 }
 
 ?>

Solved

I have done a stupid misstake. I used the html file in the normal path, not over the apache, and i think that was the problem... after i moved the complete starterkit folder to my htdocs and tried http://localhost/starterkit/starterkit.html everything was working fine... Würmchen 11:44, 7 January 2008 (PST)

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