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I need to track when a user clicks play on a wistia embedded video. Basically I just need to write to a SQL DB the name of the video and the logged in user. I have everything built but I need to call the server side function from the javascript. Here is the script code:

<script>
    wistiaEmbed = Wistia.embed("zt4tf4py2t");
    wistiaEmbed.bind("play", function () {
    alert("Play"); // CALL C# FUNCTION HERE
    return this.unbind;
    });
 </script>

Thanks, Sam

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Check out this Google search... –  neoistheone Sep 3 at 19:27
 
Yeah could you??? I did google it and found nothing. –  Sam Cromer Sep 3 at 19:29
 
I found that already, I dont want to use web services for this. –  Sam Cromer Sep 3 at 19:31
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Look at the "Related" questions in the bottom right of this page. They are filled with virtually identical questions. –  Graham Sep 3 at 19:57
 
@SamCromer It's literally impossible to invoke a server-side function from Javascript without using a web service of some sort. The question is whether it will be ad-hoc, using some standard technology, or proprietary but transparent. Ish. –  millimoose Sep 18 at 1:13

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The simplest solution would be to send a POST via ajax. If you're using JQuery, you could do something like this:

$.ajax('/your/url/here.aspx?videoId=1');

Then in your ASP.NET code, add a page that checks the request parameter and saves the information to your database. If you're using MVC, it would just be a controller action.

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