Original (incorrect):

function dosomething(event) {
var x = event.target.value;
}

New (works in all browsers):

function dosomething(event) {
var x = $(event.target).val();
}

Good ‘ol jQuery!

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Bottom line: look at your data first!

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Usage:

Find the ID of the video by looking in the URL of your video on Tudou or Youku. Then use that ID in the following shortcode on any post or page:

Tudou videos: [vid site="tudou" id="xxxxxx"]

Youku videos: [vid site="youku" id="xxxxxx"]

Download

Download the plugin here: youku-tudou-embed.zip

Source Code

Here’s the source code. Note: this is based on a tutorial on tutsplus.

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Problem: Pull a list of reservations from a SharePoint and order them chronologically. There are three fields, firstName, lastName, and startTime. We want to pull all three fields, and then output those fields into an unordered list. As an added trick, we have several reservation lists we need to pull from (Elementary School, Middle School, and High School). So all reservations need to be pulled, and then sorted chronologically.

Solution 1: Just modify your CAML query to OrderBy the startTime field. Well, this works fine. But when pulling from multiple lists (using SPServices), the results will essentially be “grouped” by list.

Solution 2: Push all results to a javascript array, then sort the array. The problem here is that SharePoint’s date/time field isn’t very javascript-y. So sorting won’t work.

Solution 3: Use the convertSPDate() function mentioned in yesterday’s post on converting dates from SharePoint to javascript, then follow solution 2!

Here’s the code (commented with explanations):

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function convertSPDate(d) {
/*
*	A function to convert a standard SharePoint
*	date/time field (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS) to a
*	javascript Date() object
*
*	Author: Ben Tedder (www.bentedder.com)
*/
    // split apart the date and time
	var xDate = d.split(" ")[0];
	var xTime = d.split(" ")[1];

    // split apart the hour, minute, & second
	var xTimeParts = xTime.split(":");
	var xHour = xTimeParts[0];
	var xMin = xTimeParts[1];
	var xSec = xTimeParts[2];

    // split apart the year, month, & day
	var xDateParts = xDate.split("-");
	var xYear = xDateParts[0];
	var xMonth = xDateParts[1];
	var xDay = xDateParts[2];

	var dDate = new Date(xYear, xMonth, xDay, xHour, xMin, xSec);
	return dDate;
}

	// create a couple of variables
	var startTime;
	var convertedStartTime;

	// a standard SPServices call
	$().SPServices({
		operation: "GetListItems",
		webURL: myListURL,
		async:false,
		listName: myListName,
		CAMLRowLimit: 1,
		completefunc: function (xData, Status) {
			$(xData.responseXML).SPFilterNode("z:row").each(function(i){
				// set the value of startTime to standard SP date/time field
				startTime = $(this).attr("ows_startTime");
			})
		}
	});

	// set the convertedStartTime to a true javascript date
	convertedStartTime = convertSPDate(startTime);

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