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Dynamically Calling Fancybox from Javascript

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January 27, 2010
javascript, jQuery
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Fancybox is a really nice jQuery library for creating lightboxes.  There are a few simple examples and some documentation on their site but there seems to be no demonstrated method for loading a fancybox dynamically with javascript.  All of their examples require you to embed a link to the lightbox content somewhere in the page source.

The following hack, mostly taken from the method described here, allows you to dynamically any web page into a fancybox straight from javascript.

I’ve documented the following example which should be fairly straight forward.  Basically it embeds a hidden link, that’s controlled by the callFancyBox function.  Make sure you have the right things included and you can simply call

callFancyBox( <your iframed url > );

<html>
<head>

<!--- These are the scripts and styles needed for fancybox to work --->
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://qwisk.com/sbmedia/scripts/libraries/jquery-1.3.2-mod.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://qwisk.com/sbmedia/scripts/libraries/jquery.fancybox-1.2.6.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<link href="http://qwisk.com/sbmedia/css/jquery.fancybox-1.2.6.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" />

</head>
<body>

<h3> Fancybox Test</h3>

A fancybox will load in 3 seconds

<!--- Currently fancybox only works on links in your page.  This div hides a link, who's href we change dynamically --->
<div id="hidden_clicker" style="display:none">
<a id="hiddenclicker" href="http://asdf.com" >Hidden Clicker</a>
</div>

<script type="text/javascript" >

// Register all links with-flash as fancybox's
$(document).ready(function() {
 $("a.overlay-flash").fancybox({
 'padding': 0,
 'zoomOpacity': true,
 'zoomSpeedIn': 500,
 'zoomSpeedOut': 500,
 'overlayOpacity': 0.75,
 'frameWidth': 530,
 'frameHeight': 400,
 'hideOnContentClick': false
 });
});

// This function allows you to call the fancy box from javascript
// origional source: http://outburst.jloop.com/2009/08/06/call-fancybox-from-flash/
function callBoxFancy(my_href) {
var j1 = document.getElementById("hiddenclicker");
j1.href = my_href;
$('#hiddenclicker').trigger('click');
}

// Call the Fancy Box 3 seconds after the page loads
$(document).ready(function() {
 window.setTimeout("callFancyBox('http://google.com');", 3000)
});
</script>

</body>
</html>

Find RSS Feed Links With jQuery

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June 3, 2009
feeds, javascript, jQuery
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This took me a little while to figure out so I thought I’d share. You can use a jQuery selector to find any RSS links on a page very easily.

The following line will return a list of the RSS link elements.

var link_elements = $('link[type="application/rss+xml"]');

The following snippet will create an array of all the urls to the RSS feeds on the page.

var links = [];
$('link[type="application/rss+xml"]').each(function() { links[links.length] = this.href; });

TicTacToe in jQuery

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June 2, 2009
games, javascript, jQuery
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As a demo application for a project of mine I wrote TicTacToe in Javascript using the jQuery framework.

I’ve added excessive comments to the code to provide an easy walk-through example on the jQuery/Javascript game. I’m in no way a JavaScript expert, there are a hundred different ways to program TicTacToe, and this code is far from clean but here it is!

There are just two files, the HTML page, and a page holding the javascript.

tictactoe.html


<html>

<head>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.js"></script>
<script src="tictactoe.js"></script>

<style>

table.board {
  border: 1px solid green; 
  height: 600px;
  width: 600px;
}

body {
  text-align: center;
  align: center;
}

td {
  height: 200px;
  width: 200px;
  text-align: center;
  vertical-align: middle;
  font-size: 100px;
  font-weight: bold;
  font-color: green;
  font-family: geniva, verdana, helvetica;
  border: 1px solid green;
}

#menu {
  text-align: center;
  position: absolute;
  width: 400;
  height: 400;
  margin-left: 100px;
  margin-top: 100px;
  border: 5px double red;
  display: none;
  vertical-align: middle;
  background-color: white;
}

#play_again {
  font-size: 20px;
  color: green;
}

</style>


</head>
<body>

<table border="0px" align="center">
<tr><td>
<div id="menu"></div>
<div id="board"></div>
</td></tr>
</table>

</body>

tictactoe.js

/* Main Game Handling class */
var TicTacToe = {
    turn: "O",  // Keeps a record of who's turn it is
    board: ["", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""],  // Keeps a record of the TicTacToe Board
    win: false, // records who won if the game is over
    
    /* Clears and starts a new game with a new board */
    restartGame: function() {
      // Draw the board
      var board_table = '<table class="board" border="0px" cellpadding="0px" cellspacing="0px" align="center"><tr><td id="ttt0">&nbsp;</td><td id="ttt1">&nbsp;</td><td id="ttt2">&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><td id="ttt3">&nbsp;</td><td id="ttt4">&nbsp;</td><td id="ttt5">&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><td id="ttt6">&nbsp;</td><td id="ttt7">&nbsp;</td><td id="ttt8">&nbsp;</td></tr></table>';
      $("#board").html(board_table);
      $("#menu").hide();
      
      // clear the board
      this.board = ["", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""];
      
      // Add on-click events to each of the boxes of the board
      $("#board td").click(function(e) {
          TicTacToe.move( e.target.id );
         });

    },

    /* Handles clicks spaces on the board */
    move: function(id) {
      var space = $("#" + id);  // Board space table element
      var num = id.replace("ttt", ""); // # representing the space on the board
    
      // If no one's gone there, and the game isn't over, go there!
      if (!this.board[num] && !this.win) {
        space.html( this.turn );
        this.board[num] = this.turn;
        this.nextTurn();  // End turn
      } 
    },

    /* Iterate turn and check if anyone one yet */
    nextTurn: function() {
      this.turn = (this.turn == "O") ? "X" : "O";
      this.win = this.check4Win();
      if (this.win) {
          this.endGame();
      }
    },

    /* Display who won and options for new games */
    endGame: function() {
    
      if (this.win == "Cat") {
          $("#menu").html("Cats Game.");
      } else {
          $("#menu").html(this.win + " wins!");
      }
      $("#menu").append("<div id='play_again'>Play Again</div>");
      
      // Button for playing again.
      $("#play_again").click(function () { TicTacToe.restartGame();  });
      $("#menu").show();
      this.win = false;
    
    },

    // If any of these patters of board spaces have all X's or all O's somebody won!
    wins: [[0,1,2], [3,4,5], [6,7,8], [0,3,6], [1,4,7], [2,5,8], [0,4,8], [6,4,2]],
    
    /* Check for whether someone won the game of it was a Cat's game. */
    check4Win: function() {
        
      // Loop through all possible winning combinations 
      for (k in this.wins){
        var pattern = this.wins[k];
        var p = this.board[pattern[0]] + this.board[pattern[1]] + this.board[pattern[2]];
        if (p == "XXX") {
          return "X";  // X Won!
        } else if (p == "OOO") {
          return "O";  // O Won!
        }
      }
      
      // Check if all spaces in the board are filled, then its a Cat's game
      var cnt = 0;
      for (s in this.board) {
        if (this.board[s]) { cnt+=1; }
      }
      if (cnt == 9) { 
        return "Cat";  // Cat's game!
      }
  }
};

$(document).ready(function() {
    
    // Start a game!
    TicTacToe.restartGame();
});

I’d originally setup the game on AppJet but unfortunately today they announced that they are closing down their framework and free hosting for a while to focus on one of their successful apps EtherPad. For at least the next month however you can play the game here, and play with the source code here. Feel free to use my code in any way.

If you do use the source for something, or have suggestions on improvements make sure to leave a comment.