I am trying to build a simple social media website in which people get to make posts and comment on the postings (Kinda like facebook). In order to fetch the posts and the comments, I have created two simple PHP scripts that get me the results in a json format. I then created two functions in jquery, getPosts() and getComments() to ajax the results. On success, these functions clone() the html frame I have created for each post/comment object that is returned.
Here is my html frame:-
<div class="KK-posts_feed">
<div class="KK-post_frame" style="display:none;"> //This is the div that I clone() for postings
<div class="KK-post_info_header">
<a class="KK-post_username"></a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="KK-post_text"></div>
<div class="KK-post_comment_thread" data-PID="">
<div class="KK-post_comment_box"> //This is the div that I clone for comments
<div class="KK-post_comment_user_info">
<a class="KK-post_comment_username"></a>
</div>
<div class="KK-post_comment_text"></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
This is the getPosts() method to output the posts:-
function getPosts(){ //This function gets the posts and clones the html for each post
$.ajax({
type : 'GET',
url : 'fetchposts.php',
dataType: 'json',
error : function(){
$('.dash_results_bar').html('<p class="KK-post_load_error">' + "Sorry, couldn't load posts at the moment. This maybe because we are facing downtime or because the databases are being updated." + ' <a href="#" class="KK-post_load_retry">Retry</a>' + "</p>");
},
success : function(data)
{
var posts = data.posts;
if(posts.length)
{
$('.KK-post_frame:first').css("display", "block");
$(posts).each(function(index, value){
$('.KK-post_frame:first')
.clone(true)
.attr('id', (value.post_id))
.find('.KK-post_username').html(value.user_fullname)
.end()
.find('.KK-post_text').html(value.post_text)
.end()
.find('.KK-post_comment_thread').attr('data-PID', value.post_id)
.end()
.appendTo('.KK-posts_feed');
});
$('.KK-post_frame:first').css("display", "none");
}
}
});
}
This is the getComments() method to output the comments under each post:-
function getComments(){
$('.KK-post_comment_thread').each(function(){ // I run this method for each comment thread div inside each of my posts div
var pid = $(this).attr('data-PID'); // PID is the 'post id' that I use, to identify each comment thread div separately.
var self = this;
$.ajax({
type : 'POST',
url : 'fetchcomments.php',
data : 'pid='+pid, // I send the post id to the php script which returns the comments for the particular post in the form of json objects
error : function(){
$(self).html('<p class="KK-post_comment_load_error">' + "Sorry, couldn't load comments at the moment." + ' <a class="KK-post_comment_load_retry" href="#">Retry</a>' + "</p>");
},
success : function(data){
var comments = data.comments;
if(comments.length)
{
$('.KK-post_comment_box:first').css('display', 'block');
$(comments).each(function(index, value){
$('.KK-post_comment_box:first')
.clone(true)
.attr('id', value.comment_id)
.find('.KK-post_comment_username').html(value.user_fullname)
.end()
.find('.KK-post_comment_text').html(value.comment_text)
.end()
.appendTo(self);
});
$('.KK-post_comment_box:first').css('display', 'none');
}
}
});
});
}
This is how I execute the above two functions :-
$('document').ready(function(){
$.when(getPosts()).done(function(){
getComments();
});
});
While the getPosts() method executes perfectly and outputs the posts, the getComments() method either doesn't execute or doesn't show any results. I cant say for sure because everytime I refresh the page, I only get the postings and not the comments. Also I checked my console but did not find any errors with the script. The getComments() method worked perfectly well when I executed it via the click event handler like $('button').click(function(){ getComments(); });. Therefore, I know that both my methods are working fine, its just that I am not able to execute them one after the other on page load. Can anybody help me with this peculiar problem?
getPosts()script and now my scripts work like charm. Thanks again @Pointy !