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"I wrote my first ever JavaScript last night"

And it worked first time.

It's only simple, but still... I was quite pleased with myself.

Ah, cool. Good work!

monkey_man wrote:
> What did it do?

As I said, it's very simple. Basically nothing more than string handling.

I sell stuff on eBay, eBid and QXL and have links in my listings to my auction Terms & Conditions, hosted on my own webspace.

Until now, they've all linked to the same document, but I'm going to make some subtle changes to the T&Cs between the sites, so I wanted to redirect to the correct version depending on which site the user was coming from.

So I looked up some guides to JS and had a go... and it worked!

I have 2 templates for my listings, one for UK-only auctions and one for international auctions. These linked to documents TandC_UK.htm and TandC_Global.htm respectively, irrespective of whether the user was coming from eBay, eBid or QXL.

I've replaced these documents with a page which calls my simple JS function and redirects to the correct T&Cs.


> Give us your code, schvinehund!

Okay, but don't laugh! There may be a better, more efficient way of doing it, but I'll find that out in time.

There are two copies of this script - one for UK auctions, one for international. As they are called from two different eBay templates, I've not yet figured out how (or even if) I can do it all in one.

Not sure how this will look with formatting and all that, but here goes...

[EDIT: Removed my domain name!]

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function ShowTandC() {
var sReferringSite = document.referrer.toLowerCase(); // Referring URL.
var sCurrentURL = location.href; // Current URL of selected T&Cs.
var nAnchorPos = sCurrentURL.lastIndexOf('#'); // Position of Named Anchor, if present.

if (nAnchorPos > -1) { // If Named Anchor is present, extract it...
var sAnchorName = sCurrentURL.substring(nAnchorPos);
}

else {
var sAnchorName = ''; // ...otherwise set to null.
}

if (sReferringSite.indexOf('ebay') > 0) { // Check if referrer was eBay.
var sNewPath = 'ebay';
}

else {
if (sReferringSite.indexOf('ebid') > 0) { // Check if referring site was eBid.
var sNewPath = 'ebid';
}

else {
if (sReferringSite.indexOf('qxl') > 0) { // Check if referring site was QXL.
var sNewPath = 'qxl';
}

else { // Can't detect referring site, display options.
var sNewPath = 'common';
}
}
}

var sNewURL = 'http://mysite.co.uk/' + sNewPath + '/popups/TandC_Global.htm' + sAnchorName;
location.href = sNewURL;
}

Well done!

It is pleasing to get your first JavaScript going and working properly. HTML doesn't give quite so much of a buzz because it's stupidly simple, but JS is quite fussy, so good for you!

A Wookiee Cookiee?

What did it do? Give us your code, schvinehund!

Why thank you, sir.

Have a cookiee.

Well done.

And it worked first time.

It's only simple, but still... I was quite pleased with myself.