expressionengine Channel Entries Tag in javascript

Question

First of all sorry for my english ! i am french wink

I work for a client who use EE and i have a tiny problem due to the fact i am quite new with expressionengine

There is the code first:

    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.superphysique.org/images/fancybox/jquery.cookie.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">

    $(document).ready(function(){

    var check_cookie = $.cookie('the_cookie');

        if(check_cookie == null){
        $.cookie('the_cookie', 'the_value');
        $.fancybox(
                    '<p style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:11px; color:#3B5998; font-weight:bold;">Cliquez maintenant sur J&#8217;aime pour recevoir mes conseils en temps réels !</p>
                                {exp:mailinglist:form list="mailebook"}
                                        <p>Join our Mailing List</p>
                                        <p><input type="text" name="email" value="{email}"></p>
                                        <p><input type="submit" value="submit"></p>
                                {/exp:mailinglist:form}',

                    {
                            'autoDimensions'    : false,
                            'scrolling'         : 'no',
                        'width'                 : 450,
                        'height'                : 570,
                        'transitionIn'      : 'none',
                        'transitionOut'     : 'none'
                    }
                    );
    }

     });

    </script>

Well my client want a fancybox open once on page load just and inside a mailing list subscription. So no prob with the cookie, i create the mailing database too.

But when i put this Channel Entries tag on my code:

         {exp:mailinglist:form list="mailebook"}
                                        <p>Join our Mailing List</p>
                                        <p><input type="text" name="email" value="{email}"></p>
                                        <p><input type="submit" value="submit"></p>
                                {/exp:mailinglist:form}

The fancybox is not appearing correctly.

Could someone help me with this?

Thanks you!

What does the source code look like when it's rendered? Are your EE tags not getting parsed at all? — Derek Hogue

Peter Lewis Peter Lewis · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-31T08:26:30

I'm almost certain you'll never be able to get that working within the JavaScript (if it's as a JS file/template). variables and basic conditionals and core EE tags are processed, but not tag pairs like that. I got round exactly the same problem by using embeds...

{if logged_out}
    //###   Prompt for login when visitor tries to access member only features   ###
    var modalContent = '{embed=members/login-prompt language="en"}';
    ...
    etc

This demonstrates that basic EE conditionals work {if logged_out} and {embed=...} works.

More information about embeds can be read here: http://expressionengine.com/user_guide/templates/embedding.html

expressionengine Channel Entries Tag in javascript

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