Question

I am creating a function with this line:

window.Spark = window.$ = function(selector, context) { ... };

But I am having a problem (obviously), if I call a function like this $('p').content('Hi!'); then everything works great because I am treating $ like a function. However, when I run a function like this $.ajax('get', 'example.txt'); I get this error $.ajax is not a function. This is because I am not including the brackets. Does anyone know a way around this? I saw in the jQuery source that they have a function within a function. Is this the sort of thing I need?

Thanks for any help you can offer.

Answer 1

I assume by brackets you mean parentheses.

In jQuery, $ is a function with properties.
You can replicate this type of behavior simply by assigning properties to $:

window.Spark = window.$ = function(selector, context) { ... };

$.ajax = function(method, url) { ... };