Question

Someone answered in my past question and provided me with the code necessary to pull a datetime from a server. All is well it’s just that I don’t know how to execute it! for example, I want to the action to happen on pageload, how can I do that?

here’s the Ajax/JSONP code I was given:

$.ajax({
    url: 'http://timeapi.org/utc/now.json',
    dataType: 'jsonp'
})
.done(function(response) {
    // response = {"dateString":"2012-03-06T02:18:25+00:00"}
    console.log(response.dateString);// "2012-03-06T02:18:25+00:00"
});

P.S. does the “$” refer to JQuery? I am not very familiar with this syntax…the $.ajax and the .done?

Answer 1

You definitely have to check out jQuery.

Basically, $ refers to the jQuery object, and .ajax() and .done() are functions which are properties of this object. They can be concatenated by a common technique of returning the jquery-context at the end of each function.

Simplified you have something like this:

jQuery.function(parameters).anotherfunction(parameters)

You should start with this basic tutorial.