I'm creating a widget for users to place on their blogs to direct traffic to my coupon code site. I want the widget to access the database and output the 5 top coupons of the day. Here is what I will them place on their site:
<script src="http://example.com/widget/script.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<div id="example-widget-container"></div>
Now the script.js file looks like:
(function() {
// Localize jQuery variable
var jQuery;
/******** Load jQuery if not present *********/
if (window.jQuery === undefined || window.jQuery.fn.jquery !== '1.4.2') {
var script_tag = document.createElement('script');
script_tag.setAttribute("type","text/javascript");
script_tag.setAttribute("src",
"http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js");
script_tag.onload = scriptLoadHandler;
script_tag.onreadystatechange = function () { // Same thing but for IE
if (this.readyState == 'complete' || this.readyState == 'loaded') {
scriptLoadHandler();
}
};
// Try to find the head, otherwise default to the documentElement
(document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0] || document.documentElement).appendChild(script_tag);
} else {
// The jQuery version on the window is the one we want to use
jQuery = window.jQuery;
main();
}
/******** Called once jQuery has loaded ******/
function scriptLoadHandler() {
// Restore $ and window.jQuery to their previous values and store the
// new jQuery in our local jQuery variable
jQuery = window.jQuery.noConflict(true);
// Call our main function
main();
}
/******** Our main function ********/
function main() {
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
/******* Load CSS *******/
var css_link = $("<link>", {
rel: "stylesheet",
type: "text/css",
href: "style.css"
});
css_link.appendTo('head');
/******* Load HTML *******/
var jsonp_url = "http://www.mydomain.com/widget_data.php";
$.getJSON(jsonp_url, function(data) {
$('#example-widget-container').html("This data comes from another server: " + data.html);
});
});
}
})(); // We call our anonymous function immediately
The problem I'm having is how do I return a json array to the js file, and how do I loop through it to output a unordered list with each coupon being its own list item?
Any help is greatly appreciated!!!!
