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How do i load xml depending on day of the week????

in Getting Started • 7 years ago

Need to load xml from a url depending on day of the week. if its monday load Monday.xml. I can not figure this out my brain hurts.

Replies(12)

dsvick

Re: How do i load xml depending on day of the week????

7 years ago

If you post your code you can get a more specific answer.

A more generic solution is: use the javaScript getDay method to get the day of the current date. Then just determine the day name, 0 is Sunday, 1 is Monday, and so on. Then use that to create the name of the xml file you're going to access.

Here's a page that has a good example: http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_getday.asp

Dave

nickskeeto

Re: How do i load xml depending on day of the week????

7 years ago

var d=new Date();
var weekday=new Array(7);
weekday[0]="Sunday";
weekday[1]="Monday";
weekday[2]="Tuesday";
weekday[3]="Wednesday";
weekday[4]="Thursday";
weekday[5]="Friday";
weekday[6]="Saturday";

var n = weekday[d.getDay()];
if (d==[0]){
//load sunday.xml
}

if its sunday load the sunday.xml from a url if its monday load monday.xml ..ect.. i understand how to get the day of the week but what i dont understand is how to use that day of the week to load the xml file from the url. hope this is understandable thanks

dsvick

Re: How do i load xml depending on day of the week????

7 years ago

How are you loading the file? What are you loading it into? A div? Memory so you can parse it?

Once you have the variable n, you can do this:

var xmlFile = n + ".xml";
$("#myDiv").load(xmlFile);

Dave

nickskeeto

Re: How do i load xml depending on day of the week????

7 years ago

Im going to put it in a div. How do I get n?

dsvick

Re: How do i load xml depending on day of the week????

7 years ago

n was in the code you posted....

var d=new Date();
var weekday=new Array(7);
weekday[0]="Sunday";
weekday[1]="Monday";
weekday[2]="Tuesday";
weekday[3]="Wednesday";
weekday[4]="Thursday";
weekday[5]="Friday";
weekday[6]="Saturday";
var n = weekday[d.getDay()];
var xmlFile = n + ".xml";
$("#myDiv").load(xmlFile);

If the file is in a different directory just add the path information in front of where you add the n to the ".xml". This will just put the contents of the xml file in the div with no formatting. Check this thread out for info on rendering it formatted.

EDITED, because I forgot the link: https://forum.jquery.com/topic/disply-raw-xml-tags-and-all

Dave

nickskeeto

Re: How do i load xml depending on day of the week????

7 years ago

thanks man you have been a big help.

nickskeeto

Re: How do i load xml depending on day of the week????

7 years ago

ok so nothing is showing up

<script type="text/javascript">

                var d=new Date();
                var weekday=new Array(7);
                    weekday[0]="Sunday";
                    weekday[1]="Monday";
                    weekday[2]="Tuesday";
                    weekday[3]="Wednesday";
                    weekday[4]="Thursday";
                    weekday[5]="Friday";
                    weekday[6]="Saturday";
                var n = weekday[d.getDay()];
                var xmlFile = n + "http://www.thiswebsite.com.xml";
                $("listdiv").load(xmlFile);

        </script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="listdiv"></div>
</body>
</html>

and clue?