Question

I pasted the code given in this link to a file called md5.js.

http://www.webtoolkit.info/javascript-md5.html

I am not able to call the function in my below code. Please assist me.

function inc(filename)
{
    var body = document.getElementsByTagName('body').item(0);
    script = document.createElement('script');
    script.src = filename;
    script.type = 'text/javascript';
    body.appendChild(script)
}

function CheckCaptcha()
{
    var CaptchaWord="";

    CaptchaWord = document.getElementById('studentusername').value;
        inc("md5.js");

        //Add MD5 function here.
}

Answer 1

You can try adding an event handler for the scripts onload and continuing your code from there.

e.g.

function inc(fname, callback)
{
    var body = document.getElementsByTagName('body').item(0);
    script = document.createElement('script');
    script.src = filename;
    script.type = 'text/javascript';
    script.onload = callback;
    body.appendChild(script);
}

function CheckCaptcha()
{
    var CaptchaWord="";

    CaptchaWord = document.getElementById('studentusername').value;
        inc("md5.js", function() {
        //Add MD5 function here.
        });

}

The alternative to this approach (which will work far more rebustly as well) is to include the md5 script directly as opposed to using the inc function.

<script src="/path/to/md5.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function CheckCaptcha()
{
    var CaptchaWord="";
    CaptchaWord = document.getElementById('studentusername').value;
    return md5(CaptchaWord); //or something
}
</script>