Java script

What is JavaScript?
• Client side interpreted embedded programming language
used to enhance websites
• No relation to Java
• Can manipulate HTML
• Event driven

To use or not to use
• Helpful for:
o Dynamic content
o Adding logic to HTML
o Make changes without refreshing the page
o Form validation
o Ease processing on server
• Not helpful for:
o Accessing resources
o Do anything that requires privacy
 JavaScript is shown publicly

Adding JavaScript to HTML
• Inline:
o <script language="javascript"> code </script>
• External:
o <script language="javascript" src="code.js" />
• Typically this is placed in between the <head> tags
• Case sensitive (unlike HTML)

Variables
• Variables are untyped
o No need to declare type (int, bool, etc)
o Doesn't care about type until called
• Example:
o var name = "Andrew";
o var num = 24;
o var name = num;
o name will now return 24

Arrays
• Strings are arrays
o var x = "Andrew"; x[3] returns "r"
• Array is also it's own data structure and doesn't require
all items to be of the same type.
o var x = new Array();
 x[0] = "Rawr";
 x[1] = 9001;
o var x = new Array("Rawr", 9001);
o var x = ["Rawr", 9001];
• Arrays have a length:
o x.length

If..Else / Switch
• Similar to what you'd expect
o if (<condition>) { code }
o if (<condition>) { code } else { more }
o if (<condition>) { code } else if { more } else { finally }
switch (<variable>) {
case <match>:
code
break;
case <match2>:
break;
default:
}

Loops
• For:
o for (<var>; <condition>; <do>) { code }
o for (<var> in <list>) { code }
• While:
o while (<condition>) { code }
o do { code } while (<condition>);
• break and continue work as expected

Functions
• Similar to any other languages' functions and methods
• Can have nested functions
o Variables have scope similar to nested loops
• Used by events
o Runs only when called
• Example:
o function <name> (<parameters>) { code }

Popups
• Used for displaying information to the user outside of
the page.
o Typically as a warning or when an error has occured
o Ask user for additional information
o Confirmation
• alert(<text>); - Exits via an okay button
• confirm(<text>); - Returns true or false (ok or cancel)
• prompt(<text>, <default>); - Returns user's input

Try it
Create your own html file and using a text editor create.
• Create an Array
• Create a function that:
o Use a for loop to loop through the array
o Print the contents of each element using
document.write();
o Use a prompt() to ask for a username
o Using an if statement, take the input and if it is 4
characters long, print "Yes", else print "No".
• Use <body onload="f()"> to execute function on page load

Exceptions and Try/Catch
• Exceptions are easily thrown in a function by adding the
following line. This will exit the function, returning the
exception text.
o throw <text>;
 Example: throw "Error1";
• Try/Catch is as expected:
o try { code } catch (<error>) { more }

Document Object Model (DOM)
• Standard way to access/manipulate HTML documents
• Hierarchy of objects in HTML
• Examples of objects:
o window, location, document, anchors, body
o images, forms, elements, tables
• Code example:
o document.write("<b>This</b> is displayed.");

Cookies
• Stored in text file on client
• Can store multiple values (";" delimited)
• Limited
o 300 per browser
o 20 per web server
o 4KB per cookie
• Default: Read only by originating webpage
o Can be read by others using:
 path - multiple sites
 domain - multiple servers
• Remove by setting the expiration to current time or a
past time.

Cookies (cont)
Example:
document.cookie("username=Andrew;expires=2011-01-11");
var aCookie = document.cookie;
var items = aCookie.split(";");
var expires = items[1].split("=")[1];
• The use of split returns an array of substrings
• After the first go we have "username=Andrew" and "expires=2011-
01-11"
• After the second go we have "expires" and "2011-01-11"
• The variable "expires" now equals "2011-01-11"

Date()
• Date
(); returns the current date.
• Date(<milliseconds>); returns the date since 1970/01/01
• Date(<date_string>); returns date given by string
• Date(y,m,d,h,m,s,ms); returns the date based on which
variables are filled in
o Date(2011, 6, 17); = 6/17/2011
o Date(2011, 6, 17, 13, 5); = 6/17/2011 13:05

Try it
Goto:
http://www.w3schools.com/js/tryit.asp?filename=tryjs_coo
kie_username
• Look at the code to create a cookie.
• In your browser go to where your cookies are stored.
• Find the "username" cookie for www.w3schools.com
• Notice the fields and when it expires.
• Try running the code again
o The cookie hasn't expired yet!

Math
• JavaScript has it's own math functions built in
o abs(x), random(x), round(x), sin(x), etc
• Also has constants defined
o PI, E, LN2, LOG10E, SQRT2
• To access these, just call Math then the
function/constant directly
o Math.abs(x)
o Math.PI

Stand back...I know RegEx
• JavaScript also has an easy way of doing regular
expressions
• There is the functional way:
o var pattern = new RegEx(<pattern>, <modifiers>);
• Or a simplified way:
o var pattern = /<pattern>/modifiers;
• Use test() with RegEx to see if a string matches:
o pattern.test("Hey there");
 Will return true or false
• User exec() to find a matching string and return the results.

Objects
• Similar to classes in other languages
o Can have variables and methods
• var myObject = new Object();
o myObject.name = "Andrew";
o myObject.number = 42;
• var myObject = {name: "Andrew", number: 42};
o myObject.tired = "Yes"

Objects - Functions
• Functions can create objects, effectively being
constructors.
function dude (name, age) {
this.name = name;
this.age = age;
}
dude.setAge = function (x) { this.age = x; };
var guy = new dude("Andrew", 24);
guy.setAge(42)

Objects - Singletons
If an object will only exist in a single instance, you can do
the following:
var myObject = {firstmethod: function (x,y) { code} };
myObject.firstmethod(5,"A");

Try it
In an HTML file:
• Create an object with a few variables
o one contains a string
o one contains a number
o one contains a function
• In the function, use alert(); to display the object's
string
• Using the "for...in" loop, print each of the object's
variable name, alongside with the value.
o for (x in obj) { print x : obj[x] } //Pseudo code
• Call the object's function

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
• Fast and Dynamic web pages
• Perform behind the scenes to update portions of a
webpage without having to reload the whole page.
• Based on:
o XMLHttpRequest object - communicate with server
o JavaScript/DOM - display/manipulate information
o CSS - Style it to make it look nice
o XML - Format data for transfering

AJAX - XMLHttpRequest
• Create object
o var xmlrequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
• Send a request
o open(httpMethod, targetURL, async);
 xmlrequest.open("GET", "example.asp", true);
o send();
 xmlrequest.send();

XMLHttpRequest - GET
• Simple, fast, good for cached data.
• Simple:
o open("GET", "demo.asp", true)
o Can return cached data
• Fresh:
o open("GET", "demo.asp?t="+Math.random(), true)
o Unique id prevents cached data from appearing
• Send information:
o open("GET", "demo.asp?username=Andrew&age=24",
true)

XMLHttpRequest - POST
• For database accessing, sending large amounts of data, can't
work with caching, need for security/robust transfer
• Simple:
o open("POST", "demo.asp", true)
• Send form information:
o open("POST", "demo.asp", true)
o setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-
www-form-urlencoded")
o send("name=Andrew&age=24");

XMLHttpRequest - Server Response
• If response is not XML
o request.responseText
o Returns the text from the server
• If it is XML
o request.responseXML
o Returns an XML file from the server
o Probably will need to be parsed and then use

AJAX - readyState
• Holds the status of the XMLHttpRequest object
• Perform actions based on the readyState
• onreadystatechange even is triggered when readyState
changes
• onreadystatechange stores a defined function to occur
and process the readyState upon change

AJAX - readyState (cont)
• readyState statuses:
o 0: request not initialized
o 1: server connection established
o 2: request received
o 3: processing request
o 4: request finished and response is ready
• status:
o 200 = "OK"
o 404 = Page not found

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