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Hello.  I’m working on a project and I’m running EE 2.2.2 ... just had a heck of a time getting javascript pulled into my template.  I tried all the following methods:

src=”{path='inc/slides.behavior'}” (attempting to link to file in template group named /inc) 
src=”/inc/slides.behavior” (attempting to link to file in template group named /inc)
src=”/js/slides.behavior.js” (created new directory at root for /js)
src=”/images/javascript/slides.behavior.js” (created new directory inside existing images directory)

The only one that worked was the last one.  From my understanding the first one should have worked as well (well, really they all should have).  Is there a bug in 2.2.2 with calls to javascript?  What is the best practice for linking to js files?  Ideally, I’d love for the first option to work (have the js in the default templates.

Any thoughts greatly appreciated.  I am up and running using the last version but for future projects would love to get others thoughts.

Hi tunnel7,

I think this is the reason why it’s not working:

1) http://yourdomain.com/images/javascript/slides.behavior.js => here the file extension is “.js” which is a valid one and the server knows what to do with the file. The request gets passed to the index.php to render it. To test it change the domain in the URL to yours and copy and past the line in your browser you will see that it works.

2) As for http://yourdomain.com/inc/slides.behavior => here the file extension becomes “.behavior” and the server doesn’t know what to do with it. You can see this by changing the domain name in the URL to yours and copy and paste it in your browser. You’ll see nothing gets returned to the browser. This is because the server doesn’t know what mime type “.behavior” is and stops the request.

The only way it will work is if you pass the request directly to “index.php” like this:

http://yourdomain.com/index.php/inc/slides.behavior

The only other way to make it work with your code is to change the file name to “slides_behavior” this will work because the server now thinks it’s a folder and passes the request to the index.php which will know how to render it.

I hope I explained this correctly. If anyone from EE can verify this.

Mike

Sounds correct to me, Mike. Thanks for the assist.

tunnel7 - as far as a best practice goes, I prefer to keep .css and .js files outside of EE. But that’s a personal preference.

Thanks for the feedback, Mike.  That all makes sense and thanks Sue for best practices ... We’ve been going the route of keeping files outside of EE ... I keep wanting them to be a part of template groups but I can see that would present potential security risks.  Thanks for clarifying.

Hi tunnel7,

Just wanted to see if you’re all set now? Is it okay to close this thread?

Thanks,

Mark

Sure.  I more just wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing something obvious ... this thread has clarified things for me.

Many thanks.

I’ll close this one out for now then.

If anything else crops up then please don’t hesitate to post again as needed.

Cheers,

Mark