help with onfocusset or similar

[El_Duderino]

Hi,

I have always been a big fan of ExtendedGayaExtended and i have tweaked my version quite a bit.

While i managed to do stuff like starting my NAS by hitting the red button and mounting it with the green button, i have had another idea that i haven't been able to implement yet:

I wanted to add a bookmark functionality, that allows to add either files or directories to the bookmarks while browsing. I wanted to do this by just creating a folder in which i will create or delete symlinks to the desired objects. So when i am browsing through a folder i want to focus one of the files or folders and hit for example the "info"-button which leads to a cgi-script being executed that will create a symlink in the bookmark folder.
Probably with one of the other colored buttons i would then switch to this bookmark folder where i could access all the bookmarks and also remove bookmarks (same or different button).

I thought this wouldn't be very complicated, but i am having trouble passing the correct parameter to my cgi-script that will create the symlink. i somehow need to know which entry is currently selected. I tried adding invisible href's and added the "onfocusset" attribute to the visible links, having it refer to a inivisible link by using the filename and having the tvid attribute in that invisible link.
For each actual link i would have an invisible link, each with a different call of the cgi script, each using its own filename as a parameter, but for some reason it will always call my cgi-script with the filename of the first entry.

I realize that i am having a hard time explaining this. Maybe the problem can be simplified: I have a webpage with several links on it, and i want to use a particular button of the remote (like the info button) to call a certain cgi-script and pass the name of the current link on to that script. How can this be done?

Thanks very much for any help!
Obviously i would be willing to share my results in case anyone is interested...

Cheers

The Dude

[excal]

i'm not possitive its exactly like you're looking for... but check out the "Additional notes" section in this...

http://www.networkedmediatank.com/wiki/i...umentation

[El_Duderino]

Thanks for the reply.
I have actually read this, though i was unable to make it work. I will try again, harder
I will let you know if it works.
thanks again

[excal]

actually re-reading it, i think you may wanna do something a bit different.


So for example say you have 5 links.

you'd need two scripts

Code:

function setTVID(x)
{
document.getElementByID('id'+x).setattribute('tvid','info');

return false
}

function turnOffTVID(x)
{
document.getElementById('id'+x).setattribute('tvid',' ');
}

function goToCgi(x)
{
script to pass on the file name to your cgi file.
}

Code:

<a href="blah blah" onclick="goToCgi('yourFileNameHere')" id="link1" onfocus="setTVID(1)" onblur="turnOffTVID(1)" tvid=" ">link1</a>


<a href="blah blah" onclick="goToCgi('yourFileNameHere')" id="link2" onfocus="setTVID(2)" onblur="turnOffTVID(2)" tvid=" ">link1</a>


<a href="blah blah" onclick="goToCgi('yourFileNameHere')" id="link3" onfocus="setTVID(3)" onblur="turnOffTVID(3)" tvid=" ">link1</a>


<a href="blah blah" onclick="goToCgi('yourFileNameHere')" id="link4" onfocus="setTVID(4)" onblur="turnOffTVID(4)" tvid=" ">link1</a>


<a href="blah blah" onclick="goToCgi('yourFileNameHere')" id="link5" onfocus="setTVID(5)" onblur="turnOffTVID(5)" tvid=" ">link5</a>

---

actually instead of onfocus= and onblur= you might need to use onmouseover= and onmouseout= instead...

You could always just use both to be safe.

[El_Duderino]

Thanks again for helping me out.

I did actually just manage to do it with the underscore thing. At first it seemed to me that the whole underscore thing wasn't working, but the actual problem was something, i already learned but forgot again.
When i am trying to call a php script i have to refer to it with http://127.0.0.1:8088/stream/file=/share...okmark.php
if i don't use the odd looking whole 127.0.0.1 link it just isn't working.

After i did that, i was able to do everything i wanted. So now i can add Bookmarks by clicking the "info" button and also remove them.
I like it..


alot

Thanks again for your tips!!

[El_Duderino]

Even though very few might be interested in this, i am posting my changes here as i was asked by one fellow board member and this way it might help others as well.
I am not attaching my complete set of files, as i have made many changes to it over time, most of which are probably only aprreciated by me

First of all i added just one line to the files.dat (in the delhy theme folder) around line 187 (behind the ENDLISTING comment):

Code:

<a  href="http://127.0.0.1:8088/stream/file=/share/Apps/bookmark.php?focus=" tvid="_info">

Then i created a file called bookmark.php in my APPS folder and made it executable.
This file contains the following;

PHP Code:

<?php

$link = $_GET['focus'];
$pathpos = strpos($link,"path=") + 5;
$path = substr( $link, $pathpos, strlen($link) );

if ( substr( $path, -1 ) == "/" ) 
{ 
    $slashpos = strrpos(substr ($path, 0,strlen($path)-1),"/")+1;
    $link = substr($path, $slashpos);
    $link = substr( $link, 0,-1 );
} else
{
    $slashpos = strrpos( $path,"/")+1;
    $link = substr($path, $slashpos);
}

$current_path = substr ( $path, 0, $slashpos );

if (substr ( $current_path, -17) == "/Bookmarks/")
{
    unlink ( "/share/Bookmarks/" . $link );
    echo "<h2> <a href='javascript:history.back()'>" . $link . " remove from bookmars</a></h2>"; 
}
else
{
    symlink ( $path, "/share/Bookmarks/" . $link );
    echo "<h2> <a href='javascript:history.back()'>" . $link . " added to bookmarks</a></h2>"; 
}

?>

This code is certainly far from being perfect, but it works
If you browse to the Bookmarks folder you will see the symlinks. I also created a shortcut (blue button) to quickly navigate to it. Another thing i encountered was that displaying the Bookmarks folder was particularly slow, when it contained links to my NAS and the NAS was turned off. I had to manipulate the sorting mechanism as it will alway try to get a timestamp for each link, which will timeout after some time and thus lead to a significant delay. But this will not affect you if you don't have any "dead" links.

@michael1t: if you have any questions about it, probably best to ask them in this thread

have fun

[michael1t]

Hello El_Duderino,

Thanks for the Post ...

I am sorry I wasted your time ...
I was looking a Mono book mark function ...
Do You have Any Mono Php code ?

Audio playback ...
video playback ...

but thanks for the post ....

Michael T.