// FILE: utilities.js
// COPYRIGHT: First Reformed Church of Cary (caryreformedchurch.org) 2008
// Note: For these scripts to work at all:
// 1. All html files for the site must have suffix .htm (not .html)
// 2. All html files must be in the same "top level" directory
// 3. In the local test environment (your own computer, not the server)
// the .htm files must be in a directory named "docs"
// 4. There can be only one directory named "docs" in the path
// 5. There should be no blanks in any of the directory or file names
// 6. To see useful debug information, append "?dbg" to the URL
// Note: Due to many problems during initial move to ATT test server
// we now simply set dirPath to "" (null) (formerly it
// was set to "./").
//INITIALIZE THIS .JS FILE:
//SET SOME GLOBAL CONSTANTS
var cr = "Copyright 1998 - 2010, First Reformed Church of Cary"
var wm = "webmaster@caryreformedchurch.org"
var ip = "65.83.225.172" // ip addr for testing new (ATT) server
var domain = "caryreformedchurch.org"
var currentNewsletter = "newsletters/2010july-aug"
//INITIALIZE GLOBAL VARIABLES
var dbg = false // assume not in debug mode
var sfx = "" // reset to "?dbg" if in dbg mode, & append it to links
var domainInURL = false // Assume LOCAL (NOT SERVER -- no domain name in URL)
var dirPrefix = "" // prefix to use with file names. At one time it appeared
// necessary to prefix all links with a different directory
// path depending on the environment (local, server, or
// test-server. It now works with no prefix at all, but
// setting it null was easier/safer than removing all refs
// to this variable. Actually there is still one case where
// dirPrefix must be non-null. See pageName function for
// details.
var thisPage = "" // simple file name of currently linked page, w/o .htm
// (used to hilite link in navigator column)
// Will be set in the pageName function
var url = location.href // the complete URL
var searchArg = location.search // look for debug indicator, ?dbg
// Set debug mode if requested
if (searchArg == "?dbg") {
dbg = true
sfx = "?dbg" // this will be appended to all generated links
// to maintain debug mode in subsequent pages.
document.write(" DEBUG MODE IS ON (?dbg found in URL)
")
}
// SEE IF THE IP ADDRESS FOR ATT SITE IS IN THE URL
// IF SO, WE ARE ON THE NEW ATT SITE (IN TEST MODE)
if (dbg && location.hostname == ip) {
document.write("
" +
" We're on new ATT TEST site (ip addr found in URL) ")
}
// SEE IF DOMAIN NAME IS IN THE URL
if (url.indexOf(domain) != -1) {
domainInURL = true
if (dbg) {
document.write("
" + " Domain name found in URL ")
}
}
if (dbg) {
document.write(" location.href is: " + location.href + "
")
document.write(" location.hostname is: " + location.hostname +
"
")
document.write(" location.pathname is: " +
location.pathname + "
")
document.write(" location.search is: " +
searchArg + "
")
}
// INVOKE pageName FUNCTION, which formerly determined the dirPrefix variable.
// It now mostly just determines the thisPage (as the simple name of the file
// -- which determines the hiliting of links.
// It does still set dirPrefix for one case.
pageName()
if (dbg) {
document.write(" dirPrefix: "" + dirPrefix + """);
document.write("
thisPage: " + " "" + thisPage + ""
");
}
// INITIALIZATION COMPLETE
// SET STRING CONSTANTS TO BE USED IN CONSTRUCTING THE HTML PAGE
var startOuterTable = ""
var headerTable = ""
/* Not sure what ecblank.gif is. It's not a file in the images directory as the code in headerTable above suggests. But if remove that part of the code,
the dividing line between the header and the navigator/text area disappears! I suspect the code is just using this dummy file name to get
an area set up to just display the background color defined for the
"Divider" class in the default.css file - tricky if so.
Also, in the code from orc, there seems to be an extra, unbalanced tag
before the | |
|
var endEdgeSpacerTbl = " |
"
var startContentAreaTD = "| " + startEdgeSpacerTbl
var endContentAreaTD = endEdgeSpacerTbl + " |
| "
var startAnnounceAreaTD = " | | Announcements: | | "
// + startEdgeSpacerTbl
// | | | | " + startEdgeSpacerTbl
var endAnnounceAreaTD = endEdgeSpacerTbl + " | | "
var footerTable = ""
var returnLink = ""
var endPage = "
