I notice that my site is loading jQuery 1.3.2 library after my layout.html ends, which I believe will overwrite any jQuery plugin I add myself.

I've been trying to use carhartl's jQuery cookie plugin. Not knowing 1.3.2 was being loaded at all, my page was doing this:

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <!--Load 1.9.1 library-->
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://dkpfiles.com/excineribus/files/jquery.cookie.js"></script> <!--define $.cookie functions-->
<script type="text/javascript" src="settings/dkp-extras/jq/jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script> <!--Load 1.3.2 library, overwrite previous $ definitions-->

It is my understanding that the jQuery library must be defined before any plugins, or those plugins will not work. Help?

Hey Nitesbane,

Let me tinker with things, and see if I can't simplify this for you.

The simple solution may be to just upgrade jquery, and see if any of the jquery deprecations break anything.

You'd probably know better than me, but the limited sources I have access to indicate it's just the order in which they're being loaded...?

I'm told that I should, theoretically, be able to use 1.3.2 without issue if it loaded as the first element of the page so that I could place my plugin after.

Does this make any sense? I've seen it mentioned a few times in online discussion, but to call me an amateur or beginner programmer would be exceedingly generous. I feel like I'm walking down a dark hallway bumping into things until I find the end.

If jquery.cookie.js will work on jquery 1.3, then you could try adding the following, which uses a helper function (jq_preload) for the purposes of doing things after jquery loads.

<script language=javascript>
jq_preload(function(){
      jQuery.getScript("http://dkpfiles.com/excineribus/files/jquery.cookie.js");
});
</script>

You should be able to do that in place of your <script> tags above.

Give that a shot and let me know how it goes!

Genius. Just a simple test right now, but no more errors in my dev console, and it's actually creating a cookie with the right expiration.

Thank you!! You're the bleeping man!

Excellent!

Glad that worked!

Sorry to necro such an old thread.

This has been working fine on my site (using a modified version of the Guild Wars template), but I get the following error using the same code in the Star Wars: Coruscant template:


Uncaught ReferenceError: jq_preload is not defined

Can this be fixed?

Looking at your code, I'm seeing a crash before it gets to the jq_preload portion. It's crashing in the event formatting portion (probably due to the lack of an upcoming event).

You could either wrap that whole thing in a try-catch block to prevent it from breaking scripts on the rest of the page.

It's not "my" code. The only thing I did to the layout.html was add the script block you suggested above to load jquery.cookie.js.

Absolutely nothing else has been modified.

Ha! Sorry, I didn't mean it to sound accusatory, but I realize that's totally how it came across.

Let me see what I can uncover.

I didn't mean to sound defensive, just wanted to be sure we're all clear and on the same page. I also know that you don't officially support advanced layouts and such, so I try to keep my problems as simple as I can.

All I want right now is to load the plugin. If my script/code sucks, then I fully accept responsibility, but I think this one is out of my hands.

Alrighty, I've found the cause. That block with the jq_preload call, go ahead and put that *after* the closing </head> tag. The Advanced Layout parser automatically inserts the dkpsystem.js script at the end of the </head>.

Beautiful, thank you! It's working perfectly now.

I'm going to go break some more templates now and do a followup post