Javascript works great locally, but not on my server
- by Jonathan Cohen
I'm teaching myself javascript by creating a script for displaying an external rss feed on a webpage.
The code I patched together works great locally. This is a screen grab of the code producing exactly the desired behavior. The code is populating all the information inside the section "Blog: Shades of Gray", except for "tagged" which I hard coded:
But when I upload the site files to my server, the code doesn't work at all. This is a screen grab of the code on my site NOT producing the desired behavior...
This feels like I'm not getting something really basic about how javascript works locally vs. on the server. I did my half hour of googling for an answer and no trails look promising. So I'd really appreciate your help.
This is my site (under construction) http://jonathangcohen.com
Below is the code, which can also be found at http://jonathangcohen.com/grabFeeds.js.
/*Javascript for Displaying an External RSS Feed on a Webpage
Wrote some code that’ll grab attributes from an rss feed and assign IDs for displaying on a webpage. The code references my Tumblr blog but it’ll extend to any RSS feed.*/
window.onload = writeRSS;
function writeRSS(){
writeBlog();
}
function writeBlog(){
if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
{// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
}
else
{// code for IE6, IE5
xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}
xmlhttp.open("GET","http://blog.jonathangcohen.com/rss.xml",false);
xmlhttp.send();
xmlDoc=xmlhttp.responseXML;
var x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("item");
//append category to link
for (i=0;i<3;i++)
{
if (i == 0){
//print category
var blogTumblrCategory = x[i].getElementsByTagName("category")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue
document.getElementById("getBlogCategory1").innerHTML =
'<a class="BlogTitleLinkStyle" href="http://blog.jonathangcohen.com/tagged/'+blogTumblrCategory+'">'+blogTumblrCategory+'</a>';
//print date
var k = x[i].getElementsByTagName("pubDate")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue
thisDate = new Date();
thisDate = formatTumblrDate(k);
document.getElementById("getBlogPublishDate1").innerHTML = thisDate;
//print title
var blogTumblrTitle = x[i].getElementsByTagName("title")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue
var blogTumblrLink = x[i].getElementsByTagName("link")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue
document.getElementById("getBlogTitle1").innerHTML =
'<a class="BlogTitleLinkStyle" href="'+blogTumblrLink+'">'+blogTumblrTitle+'</a>';
}
if (i == 1){
//print category
var blogTumblrCategory = x[i].getElementsByTagName("category")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue
document.getElementById("getBlogCategory2").innerHTML =
'<a class="BlogTitleLinkStyle" href="http://blog.jonathangcohen.com/tagged/'+blogTumblrCategory+'">'+blogTumblrCategory+'</a>';
//print date
var k = x[i].getElementsByTagName("pubDate")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue
thisDate = new Date();
thisDate = formatTumblrDate(k);
document.getElementById("getBlogPublishDate2").innerHTML = thisDate;
//print title
var blogTumblrTitle = x[i].getElementsByTagName("title")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue
var blogTumblrLink = x[i].getElementsByTagName("link")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue
document.getElementById("getBlogTitle2").innerHTML =
'<a class="BlogTitleLinkStyle" href="'+blogTumblrLink+'">'+blogTumblrTitle+'</a>';
}
if (i == 2){
//print category
var blogTumblrCategory = x[i].getElementsByTagName("category")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue
document.getElementById("getBlogCategory3").innerHTML =
'<a class="BlogTitleLinkStyle" href="http://blog.jonathangcohen.com/tagged/'+blogTumblrCategory+'">'+blogTumblrCategory+'</a>';
//print date
var k = x[i].getElementsByTagName("pubDate")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue
thisDate = new Date();
thisDate = formatTumblrDate(k);
document.getElementById("getBlogPublishDate3").innerHTML = thisDate;
//print title
var blogTumblrTitle = x[i].getElementsByTagName("title")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue
var blogTumblrLink = x[i].getElementsByTagName("link")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue
document.getElementById("getBlogTitle3").innerHTML =
'<a class="BlogTitleLinkStyle" href="'+blogTumblrLink+'">'+blogTumblrTitle+'</a>';
}
}
}
function formatTumblrDate(k){
d = new Date(k);
var curr_date = d.getDate();
var curr_month = d.getMonth();
curr_month++;
var curr_year = d.getFullYear();
printDate = (curr_month + "/" + curr_date + "/" + curr_year);
return printDate;
}
Thank you!
