I am trying to convert a flash site into a non-flash site. The site is already powered by Joomla CMS but it outputs XML into flash. You can see the site here www.alexandraandthesunflowers.com.
As you can see (and hear) there is a music player that persists across all pages in the site (i.e. the page does not refresh when you go to different sections)
To achieve this without flash I think what I need to do is frame the home page with the main Joomla menu and a media playing component. Then what I need is for the main menu to load Joomla content into the content area using ajax and use some equivalent of SwfAddress to enable the back and forwards buttons to work and for the pages to be directly linkable.
Things like edcwid seem to work like this (ie www.carpaholixx.com/estore) but I cannot find any information anywhere on how to go about getting Joomla to work this way...
Has anyone got any ideas?
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I agree that the frame solution could be interesting.
I suggest making a frameset like this:
<frameset>
<frame id="mediaplayer" src="mediaplayer.htm" />
<frame id="main" src="{Joomla main page}" />
</frameset>
And then use css to hide the #mediaplayer, and custom javascript inserted on the joomlapage to send commands to the #mediaplayer frame where you run any kind of mediaplayer with a JS interface.
So keep the transport controls on your Joomla page and keep the mediaplayer over several changes of the #main frame.
Hope this makes sense :)
You could also consider using a javascript API to take care of the AJAX fetching of a page, to insert it in a content container on the page. This however require that you disable the header/footer of any Joomla page you request via this method. I however don't know if this is possible using Joomla.
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I have music application in which I have simple player in footer. User can choose songs from main page list and play it in footer. Now requirement is even if user moves fro home page to other pages(profile, bookmarks) in application the footer player should not get reloaded and should keep playing audio selected on home page initially.
How do I do that? DO I need to load pages through ajax?
Edit:
I forgot to mention that development is 80% completed and footer reloads on every page load. How much of rework is needed if I have to use Ajax now?
Use PJAX. Reload just the parts of the page that you want: https://github.com/rails/pjax_rails
It's already integrated with Rails and everything you put outside of this block will not be reloaded:
<div data-pjax-container>
<!-- PJAX updates will go here -->
</div>
Here's another solution similar to PJAX and Turbolinks
https://github.com/igor-alexandrov/wiselinks
Some very good answers already, but i just wanted to explain your problem better.
HTTP requests is "stateless", which means that each request are fully independent and their is no way you can know anything about how the page was before you requested a new page. This makes it impossible not to reload the footer on each request, using only HTTP.
You can use cookies to keep information between request, so you could start the player where it stopped before the request, but it will still reload (and stop for a short duration).
You can also have the rest of the page in a iframe, and only change the content of the iframe.
However these solutions is not very good for various reasons, so i would strongly recommend the last and best solution: ajax.
The simples solution is properly pjax as #aledalgrande suggested (or wiselink as suggested by #adbeel). This will i practice make your site a "one-site-application" where you use ajax to replace specific parts of the page instead of the whole page. It should however be fairly simple to integrate, even in a existing rails application.
Since you put jQuery as a tag I suggest you either look at http://api.jquery.com/load/.
You can using plain old HTML and making it easier & faster to deploy since the app is almost 'done'. Later you should implement a better (ajax) option.
Simplified: index.html
<iframe id="mainframe" src="other.html"></iframe>
<footer>
Don't reload me pls :D
</footer>
on page navigation (links) you act only on the mainframe, leaving the footer not reloaded.
NOTE: This is ugly and may will give you problems but might serve you to do minimal modification and having your site live asap.
Then rewriting the whole thing to using ajax could be 'some work required' to 'heavy work required' depending on how the app is already implemented. note that will never be 'few or no work required'.
Overview
I've set up a site using jQuery Mobile. The problem I'm having is that when I enter the site from an interior page (like the blog pages) and click on the navigation buttons in the header, I can go back to the homepage but then none of the ajax/hash-based navigation links work. In my header navigation I've linked the left-side navigation buttons directly with hrefs, not using data-rel="back". I'm not trying to use the buttons to imitate the browser's back button, but rather for absolute navigation. I've tested this on the desktop in Chrome and Firefox and on an iPhone running iOS 5 in Mobile Safari; the behavior is the same in all browsers.
Edit: (Note specific questions below in bold italic.)
What works and what doesn't
For example, if you go to the interior page http://slawson.org/blog/ and then click the < Kim button in the header to go back to the homepage, then you can only go to absolute links (like Blog) but none of the hash-based links (the other links under the "Portfolio" and "About" headers) work... clicking on the links does not fire a page transition, instead the links just blink and do nothing.
If you enter the site from the homepage — http://slawson.org/ — or one of the subpages of the homepage — like http://slawson.org/#web — this problem does not occur.
index.html — contains most of the other pages that use hash-based navigation (these don't work), e.g.:
Web Sites
iOS Applications
Print Publications
Logos & Branding
...
blog/index.html and blog/.../*.html — regular pages loaded via JQM's ajax loader (these work).
Question
Is there a problem with JQM and ajax navigation when entering sites from interior pages, or is this something that can be fixed by restructuring things or adding some jQuery somewhere? I'd like to avoid breaking every page into a separate html file.
Versions
I'm using jQuery 1.8.2 and jQuery Mobile 1.2.0.
Edit:
I looked at the JQM multi-page template docs and at these related StackOverflow questions:
jQuery mobile page navigation behaviour
Facing an issue in jquerymobile's multi page template stucture
JQuery Mobile - link from external page (SinglePage-template) to an internal page (MultiPage-template)
Things I've tried:
data-url
I tried adding data-url to the multi-pages in index.html, like so:
<div data-role="page" id="web" data-url="index.html#web" data-title="Kim Slawson | Web Sites" class="shorter-list-items">
but that didn't help.
data-rel="external"
I tried adding data-rel="external" to links to the homepage, like this link on the navigation button on the blog page:
Kim
but that didn't help either.
data-ajax="false"
I tried adding data-ajax="false" to links to the homepage, like this link on the navigation button on the blog page:
Kim
This works (i.e., you can go to the homepage, then all of the multi-pages work) BUT the transition does not fire going to the homepage. Is there a way to add a transition to this link, perhaps by giving it a class and then using some jQuery to bind to that class to fire the transition? or is there a better way? (Of note, the back button works fine after I add data-ajax="false" to the link to the homepage. Clement Ho's answer here implies that adding it breaks the back button, but I'm not seeing that)
The problem is that the hash-based pages don't exist on the page when you're clicking the links to them. (<div data-rolw="page" id="#web">...</div> isn't there)
If you have a back-end framework set up, you could return the the hash-based pages, along with the requested page, whenever a non-ajax (the initial) request is made. Then those pages will be in the DOM no matter what page is loaded first.
The other alternative is, like you said, to break every page into its own file.
I am coding a website for a client and they requested that because they have so many sidebar pages under one parent, that when the page link is clicked, it loads in the same area every time without the page reloading. They also requested that the URL changes on reload and that you can visit each page by going to that specific url. Unfortunately, I don't know how to do this. I have found a lot of tutorials and snippets that are half way there but they don't offer the exact functionality.
For example, if you go here: http://lookseewatch.com/independentinsurance/commercial-insurance/
You'll see a long sidebar of different types of commercial insurance they offer. When you click on "Automobile," or any link for that matter, the page should be loaded into the div area on the right of the sidebar. The url then should change to reflect this change to http://lookseewatch.com/independentinsurance/commercial-insurance/automobile/. All of these pages are separate and dynamic in Wordpress.
Can anyone offer me some assistance? This is currently how the sidebar is being generated:
wp_list_pages('title_li=&child_of='.$post->ID.'');
Let me know if you need any other code from me or have any questions about the functionality.
Thank you!
This is kinda complicated. There are a lot of ways of catching user events, stopping default behavior and running custom code over it. For exemple, you can listen to anchor clicks and return 0 to not load their links.
But if you change URL in browser address bar, as long as I know, a JS can't control it, because it's outside of a webpage domain, and controling browser components from an external webpage would open a lot of security flaws.
This looks like they wanna avoid banners loading to count less hits :P If performance is the issue, first of all you can use a cache plugin, that will store in HD all DB queries, and use those files in future pageloads instead of making new queries.
You can also build a full sidebar into a PHP variable, cache it in HD and read from there, instead of building the whole code everytime. It will be like adding static HTML snippet.
This can be done with a technique called pushstate combined with AJAX. There's a great jQuery plugin that's called PJAX that implements this. http://pjax.heroku.com/
I have just published a plugin called WP-PJAX that makes to whole wordpress site PJAX driven. I'm not sure if this solves your problem, but it might be something for you.
https://github.com/pelmered/wp-pjax
I am using a script for Ajax from Dynamic Drive on my site to load content into my div. It has worked great for me until I created a page where I want links. For some reason I am finding that if I create a page with a single link, the page will not load. I can click on it all I want and the page still will not load. If I have a page that is just purely text content, it loads. Is this a flaw with Ajax, or am I not doing something right? My intention with my site is to have a "Store" section so I can use Amazon Affiliates. I can't even get my page to load even if I have a simple link say pointing to Amazon.com. Unfortunately this Ajax script has been the only successful way I've been able to get my content to load into my main div. For some odd reason links in the links section on my site will appear and that page will load, but not for my "store" page.
My site is: http://veterinarycare.atspace.cc
I'm not asking for a direct code, but just a step in the right direction.
'store.html' gives a 404 Not found... Does this file exist? That is probably your problem... Your links.html page for example has a link to ASPCA and that works fine.
You may also want to look into jQuery, as this is a bit neater for doing ajax and other javascript effects. You could probably get all that javascript mumbo jumbo down to 5 lines or so...
Also remember that your site isn't going to be particularly google friendly with all the content being loaded in via javascript.
I am not trying to track clicks or anything like other people - I just want to put a browser within a browser that can go back, forward, refresh, accept user-entered URLs, and store bookmarks. Can flash/silverlight/ajax/whatever do this? If so, how?
How about:
Solution 1:
Create or use an existing ActiveX Web Browser control.
And let your web/page host that ActiveX, or host multiple controls.
Solution 2:
Put an iframe inside a UserControl, a textbox and a go button.
Get the user provided url from textbox.
Change the src of the iframe when user clicks the go button.
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<iframe id="iFrame" name="myFrame" src="http://bing.com"
width="100%" height="300" frameborder="0">
<p>Does your browser support iframes?</p>
</iframe>
--EDIT--
This is in response to your comment; you posed 3 questions:
For 1, thats correct, ActiveX works for IE, more specifically for Windows; there are ways you can install ActiveX for different browsers, but it(the ActiveX) would require windows OS. See this.
For 2, try handling that using JavaScript; something like following within iframe block.
<p>Back</p>
Checkout these examples.
For the third one, if I understand you correctly then you can always parse the url when user clicks onto the Go button; and respond accordingly before rendering the page.
flash can do basic html (AFAIK) not sure about silverlight.
you will struggle to do it with javascript/iframes. Especially back/forward/refresh buttons. If you are on the same domain you have some control over the iframe, but once it leaves your domain, you lose control
Would using an iframe or an object with type="text/html" be useful to you in terms of being able to embed a page within a page? Either method effectively permits loading a separate page within a page with little side-effect.