[ale] OT: Wordpress and javascript problem

Wed Oct 17 14:39:59 EDT 2007

Jim Seymour wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 11:45 -0400, John C wrote:
>> I'm assuming that you updated your theme files with the Javascript
>> code.
>> Did you put it into your header file?  That's where I put mine and it
>> works fine.
>>
>> If that doesn't work for ya, try finding a WordPress plugin that does
>> the same thing that your Javascript does.  They are usually pretty
>> seemless. 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have not been able to locate a single Wordpres plugin that will handle
> a simple webcam image refresh for a cam that uploads the pictures as jpg
> snapshots. I added the following line between the meta and style tags in
> the header.php file as per Wordpress.
> 
> <script src="/wp-includes/js/webcam.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
> 
> and as per the script instructions modified the body tag in the same
> file.
> 
> <body onload="webCamInit();">
> 
> and on the code for the new page I put.
> 
> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- webCamDraw(0); //--></script>
> 
> I have also tried adding both script lines to the new page that was
> suggested as well by the Wordpress/Javascript Codex page. All have
> resulted in a blank space in the page. No image, no window. :-( I have
> also tried other mods of these same lines. I will see what else I can
> find.
> 

Sounds like you need a good javascript debugging tool. I'm a huge fan of 
http://www.getfirebug.com/

-Brian