I have a page (somepage.aspx) that has a popup video on it. The video opens when a link is clicked using the js $('.showVideo').live('click', function() {
I have another page (otherpage.aspx) and would like to link to /somepage.aspx
with some kind of URL parameter that automatically opens the video popup. Something like /somepage.aspx?video=1 ...
based on the url parameter the video would open. How would I add this to my existing js?
Thanks
Using this function you are able to detect the presence of ?video=1
in the url:
function getURLParameter(name) {
return decodeURI(
(RegExp(name + '=' + '(.+?)(&|$)').exec(location.search)||[,null])[1]
);
}
Source: Get escaped URL parameter
Credit to https://stackoverflow.com/users/726427/pauloppenheim
Then you could do something like:
if(getURLParameter('video')==1){
$(".showVideo").trigger('click');
}
edit:
$(document).ready(function(){
function getURLParameter(name) {
return decodeURI(
(RegExp(name + '=' + '(.+?)(&|$)').exec(location.search)||[,null])[1]
);
}
if(getURLParameter('video')==1){
$(".showVideo").trigger('click');
}
});
Wrap the parameter name(video) in quotes getURLParameter('video')
.
Another Edit
Wrap your click event handler in a function, basically remove everything form:
$('.showVideo').live('click', function() {
//build overlay
(...)
return false;
});
Cut&paste it inside a function. Then just call the function from inside:
$('.showVideo').live('click', function() {
my_function();
});
Then change the previous code to:
if(getURLParameter('video')==1){
my_function()
}