Question

I’ve written an jQuery-Plugin, which I want to use as Object. So I declared some functions within the plugin, which I want to call from any other location, just like an object with methods. Is that even possible?

To keep it simple:

(function( $ ){
    $.fn.myPlugin = function(){
        // Here I want methods...
        function foo()
        {
             // do something...
        }
    }
})(jQuery);

Then I want to call the inner function from outside the plugin like:

$.myPlugin.foo();

But that doesn’t seem to work. So is it even possible? Or are there any other solutions? I don’t want to use an normal unrelated jQuery-Class for this purpose. Because this plugin should work together with some other jQuery-Plugins.

Thank you

Answer 1

This way:

(function( $ ){
    $.fn.myPlugin = (function(){
        // Here I want methods...
        this.foo = function()
        {
             // do something...
        }
    })();
})(jQuery);