Best Practice

What is a best practice for placing your Javascript files? Can they coexist with Perl files?

Like Most of the Perl files which you use in a project usually recide in custom/bin or httpd/iw or httpd/iw-bin (Some of it is Text Book and some is old school (experts)).

Like wise Javascript are usually in some folder under templatedata and referenced as ../../include/myjscript.js. Others rather prefer to do a common branch and use iwpreconnect.

What is ideal from a javascript point of view can i do this at any point?

<script language="javascript" location="template-type" src="http://server/iw/includes/myJscript.js"/>

Please anyone like to share their expertise here.

Thank You

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Bhargav Coca

can i do this

[html]
<script language="javascript" location="template-type" src="http://server/iw/includes/Restrict.js"/>
[/html]

nipper

There is no right answer. There are going to be a lot of opinions.

That being said, my DCTs are stubs (inline callouts) to iwhome/custom/project/dct perl. TPLs are iw_includes to project/tpl. FormAPI is in iwhome/httpd/iw/projectFormAPI/

Since there is a lot of perl in the DCT and TPL, I also have a few PMs in the iwperl folder structure.

All changes are on my configuration branch and pushed to iwhome via workflow.

Is this what you were looking for ?

Bhargav Coca

Well not exactly, in my experiance i had always did it the easy way and no one cared to contradict it, even my clients or my managers. But i am feeling guilty that i am not giving my clients the standard project ( with all include files both perl and javascripts in one branch or under iwhome) because it is said that if we organize the content better it will be easy to follow the project and enahance it for the betterment. In that context i was curious to know what most experianced people do.

also i was trying something like this, but my DCT doesn't seem to recognize the path.

[html]
<script language="javascript" location="template-type" src="http://server/iw/includes/Restrict.js"/>
[/html]

Thanks

nipper

I use location="webserver" src="/iw/projectFormAPI/foo.js"

Andy

nipper

But i am feeling guilty that i am not giving my clients the standard project ( with all include files both perl and javascripts in one branch or under iwhome) because it is said that if we organize the content better it will be easy to follow the project and enhance it for the betterment. In that context i was curious to know what most experianced people do.

As to this, I tend to give my clients a more complex and harder to learn system. This is very true. However I also give my clients a single point to change (once you know what you're doing). For example, anytime I need a URL, I call a standard perl module that creates the URL DCT. Since URLs can be as simple as Text and destination, but also get more complex (when you are doing external URLs so you need window size, whether it should have scollbars, etc).

Plus having everything on an Admin branch allows me to control the changes much better.

HTH

Andy