Include Javascript file

[qscomputing]

Hi,

I am developing a series of web pages that use JS, and they are all
fairly similar except for some very small changes. What I am hoping to
do is create one page that accepts a parameter from location.search and
then uses that to include a JS file with the appropriate parts that are
different from the main page. I am aware that I could do this the other
way round (ie. several different pages that include a set of core
functions etc.), but that will not work for this project.
Is this possible in any way?

TIA for any help,
- QS Computing.

[Stephen Chalmers]

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Hi,

I am developing a series of web pages that use JS, and they are all
fairly similar except for some very small changes. What I am hoping to
do is create one page that accepts a parameter from location.search and
then uses that to include a JS file with the appropriate parts that are
different from the main page. I am aware that I could do this the other
way round (ie. several different pages that include a set of core
functions etc.), but that will not work for this project.
Is this possible in any way?

TIA for any help,
- QS Computing.

Assumimg all the files would be included in the same place in the document,
just create an array of known filenames and search for its presence in
window.location.search:

var jsFiles=["js0.js", "js1.js", "js2.js"], l=jsFiles.length;

for(var i=0; i<l && window.location.search.indexOf(jsFiles[i])==-1; i++)
;
if(i!=l)
document.write("<script src='"+jsFiles[i]+"'><\/script>");

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[Dr John Stockton]

JRS: In article <41**********@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com>, dated Mon, 24
Jan 2005 14:36:19, seen in news:comp.lang.javascript, Stephen Chalmers
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for(var i=0; i<l && window.location.search.indexOf(jsFiles[i])==-1; i++) ;

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fonts your readers may have selected, except that fixed-pitch fonts are
common. In at least one of the best-known of those, l & 1 can be almost
indistinguishable.

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[QS Computing]

Unfortunately the external files are not pre-known.

But the good news is that I have worked out a workaround which does it
differently. Curiously enough, the way I said wouldn't work in the
first post of this thread!

So, I'm no longer in need of any help, but thanks anyway.

- QS Computing.