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For my Drupal 6 site, I'd like to get the latest jQuery and jQuery-ui scripts from the Google CDN. Although this seems like something that many people would want to do, it seems that it is not so easy.

The project Advanced CSS/JS Aggregation (advagg) seems promising, but after installing it and trying to use the Google CDN in the standard way, e.g., adding 

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.14/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>

to the head of a Drupal page, those files are not available.

Any ideas for how to do this?

EDIT:

I used drupal_set_html_head() to add the above lines to the HEAD of the Drupal page where I want to use jQuery and jQueryUI. I verified that this was working by viewing the page source.

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How are you loading this? Are you manually editing page.tpl.php for this? If there are a number of page-*.tpl.php then are you correctly adding on all files. The correct way is to use drupal_add_js('path/to/js'); – Shuaib Nawaz Jul 25 '11 at 5:26
@Shoaib, my understanding is that drupal_add_js in Drupal 6 is only for local javascript and does not work with external javascript, such as from a CDN. Please correct me if I'm wrong. – Jeff Jul 25 '11 at 14:16
@jeff the advagg module does enable that. – Jeremy French Jul 25 '11 at 14:39
@Jeff Oh ya. You are right. I just cleared it. Thanks. – Shuaib Nawaz Jul 25 '11 at 14:52
@Jeremy, any thoughts as to why what I did above didn't work? Or can you point me to some docs for advagg that might explain more? – Jeff Jul 25 '11 at 15:12
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Those files look to be available https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.14/jquery-ui.min.js

update

As to why it didn't work:

  • Jquery that ships with drupal 6 is 1.2.3
  • The Jquery update module can push this to 1.3.2

You are trying to use a much more recent version of jquery than Drupal 6 can handle. Drupal uses a lot of jQuery in it's workings, so it is not straightforward to put a new version on top. Sorry I didn't spot that earlier.

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They are, but I can't get them to work in Drupal. I'm able to use them on non-Drupal sites,e.g., Google app engine sites. – Jeff Jul 25 '11 at 14:13
Thanks, I'll try the above with jQuery 1.3.2 and jQueryUI 1.7.3 (which other people have got working without CDN) and report back how it goes. – Jeff Jul 25 '11 at 16:02
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You can use the lastest version of JQuery and JQuery UI in Drupal 6 by using jQuery.noConflict(). This will allow you to have both multiple versions of the library for specific needs.

See the Drupal documentation here:

Using Newer Versions of jQuery with Drupal 6

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