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Javascript Class

Class Reference

class EE_Javascript

The library is loaded using the following code:

ee()->load->library('javascript');

set_global($var[, $val = ''])

Parameter Type Description
$var String The variable name to add to the EE javascript object
$val String The value of the variable being added
Returns Void

Add a variable to the EE javascript object. Useful if you need to dynamically set variables for your external script. Will intelligently resolve namespaces (i.e. filemanager.filelist) so please use them.

compile([$view_var = 'script_foot'[, $script_tags = TRUE]])

Parameter Type Description
$view_var String The element to attach the foot to
$script_tags Boolean Set to TRUE to output the <script> tags, otherwise doesn’t add them
Returns Void

Gather together all scripts needing to be output for the given $view_var.

get_global()

Parameter Type Description
Returns String The HTML markup containing our JS

Prepares and returns the HTML+JS for injecting variables into the EE namespace.

script_foot()

Parameter Type Description
Returns String The HTML markup containing our foot JS

Prepares and returns the JS to be output in the foot.