[ale] OT: Wordpress and javascript problem

Wed Oct 17 16:38:04 EDT 2007

On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 14:39 -0400, Brian Pitts wrote:
> Jim Seymour wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 11:45 -0400, John C wrote:
> >> I'm assuming that you updated your theme files with the Javascript
> >> code.
> >> Did you put it into your header file?  That's where I put mine and it
> >> works fine.
> >>
> >> If that doesn't work for ya, try finding a WordPress plugin that does
> >> the same thing that your Javascript does.  They are usually pretty
> >> seemless. 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have not been able to locate a single Wordpres plugin that will handle
> > a simple webcam image refresh for a cam that uploads the pictures as jpg
> > snapshots. I added the following line between the meta and style tags in
> > the header.php file as per Wordpress.
> > 
> > <script src="/wp-includes/js/webcam.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
> > 
> > and as per the script instructions modified the body tag in the same
> > file.
> > 
> > <body onload="webCamInit();">
> > 
> > and on the code for the new page I put.
> > 
> > <script type="text/javascript"><!-- webCamDraw(0); //--></script>
> > 
> > I have also tried adding both script lines to the new page that was
> > suggested as well by the Wordpress/Javascript Codex page. All have
> > resulted in a blank space in the page. No image, no window. :-( I have
> > also tried other mods of these same lines. I will see what else I can
> > find.
> > 
> 
> Sounds like you need a good javascript debugging tool. I'm a huge fan of 
> http://www.getfirebug.com/
> 
Thanks Brian,

I was looking that over when I decided to try setting up another
javascript snipit from webcamworld.com. I was able to get that one
working. Thanks to all for their input.

Jim 