passing links via admin.php

Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 1:35 pm

Hey all-

Hitting a snag working with heavy jquery/3rd party scripts and not real sure how to debug this one.

The situation:

This is going to be really difficult to explain as it's pretty complex.

I'm trying to pass a path to a 3rd party script via jquery. The problem I'm running into is it "seems" like when it's passed... it's somehow tacking on the "admin.php?" to the beginning of the path and it's ultimately breaking it.

So in an effort to debug this to find out how that is happening... I created a test page and placed two examples on the page so I can better show you what I'm trying to understand.

example 1:

Code:

echo '<a href="">TEST</a>';

In this example... I've left the "href" tag empty so that I can see what happens when there is no path provided. This produces:

The link automatically produces a link back to the originating page.

Example 2:

Code:

echo '<a href="1">TEST1</a>';

In this example, I filled the "href" with the number 1 and it produces:

Now the "admin.php?op=SwankPreview" is removed and a link is built from the href.

(How is the link built automatically if the href is blank?)

Given the above question... I believe that will ultimately be the reason when I try to pass the path 3 layers into jquery.. it's being broken somehow by adding the "admin.php?" onto the beginning of the direct link.

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Ok, so after a bit more debugging and thinking about this... I've come to the conclusion that what is happening is that both "admin.php" & "modules.php" build a path as it's passed back through it.

I.e.

Code:

<a href="modules/test/test.file></a>

Would become

Code:

http://www.testsite.com/modules/test/test.file

But what is happening for me is that the first layer jquery that gets the path then tries to pass that path on... however, it goes back to the said .php file for link processing as it would from the initial stage and therefor breaks the link as the second script gets caught in the "?" in the pass on.

I.e.

First script has:

Code:

http://www.testsite.com/modules/test/test.file

as the path then tries to send it to the second script for use... but it gets passed via the admin.php?...

Like so...

Code:

admin.php?http://www.testsite.com/modules/test/test.file

What actually happens is the 2nd script gets a link like so:

Code:

?w.testsite.com/modules/test/test.file

The first 9 characters get gobbled up by the "admin.php" then the output link is left beginning at the ? and continues out the rest of the link.

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No need for an answer... I figured out what I was doing wrong in the jquery. Wink

registered · Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 5:49 am

Thank goodness, but this one was going to be tough to help on without digging through the javascript code. Glad you got it sorted.