Question

There is an issue that I cannot solve, I’ve been looking a lot in the internet but found nothing.

I have this JavaScript that is used to do an Ajax request by PHP. When the request is done, it calls a function that uses the Google Visualization API to draw an annotatedtimeline to present the data.

The script works great without AJAX, if I do everything inline it works great, but when I try to do it with AJAX it doesn’t work!!!

The error that I get is in the declaration of the “data” DataTable, in the Google Chrome Developer Tools I get a Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'DataTable' of undefined.

When the script gets to the error, everything on the page is cleared, it just shows a blank page.

So I don’t know how to make it work.

$(document).ready(function(){               
    // Get TIER1Tickets                 
    $("#divTendency").addClass("loading");

    $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: "getTIER1Tickets.php",
        data: "",
        success: function(html){
            // Succesful, load visualization API and send data      
            google.load('visualization', '1', {'packages': ['annotatedtimeline']}); 
            google.setOnLoadCallback(drawData(html));                                                   
        }
    });     
});


function drawData(response){            
    $("#divTendency").removeClass("loading");

    // Data comes from PHP like: <CSV ticket count for each day>*<CSV dates for ticket counts>*<total number of days counted>
    // So it has to be split first by * then by ,
    var dataArray   = response.split("*");
    var dataTickets = dataArray[0];
    var dataDates   = dataArray[1];
    var dataCount   = dataArray[2];

    // The comma separation now splits the ticket counts and the dates
    var dataTicketArray = dataTickets.split(",");
    var dataDatesArray  = dataDates.split(",");

    // Visualization data                               
    var data = new google.visualization.DataTable();
    data.addColumn('date', 'Date');
    data.addColumn('number', 'Tickets');
    data.addRows(dataCount);                                                    

    var dateSplit = new Array();
    for(var i = 0 ; i < dataCount ; i++){
        // Separating the data because must be entered as "new Date(YYYY,M,D)"
        dateSplit = dataDatesArray[i].split("-");
        data.setValue(i, 0, new Date(dateSplit[2],dateSplit[1],dateSplit[0]));
        data.setValue(i, 1, parseInt(dataTicketArray[i]));
    }               

     var annotatedtimeline = new google.visualization.AnnotatedTimeLine(document.getElementById('divTendency'));
     annotatedtimeline.draw(data, {displayAnnotations: true});                              
}

Answer 1

I remember when I used a Google API it explicitly said to initialize the load first off. So maybe keep the google.load function out of the AJAX, and then just keep calling the second part of your function on success:

//Straight Away!
google.load('visualization', '1', {'packages': ['annotatedtimeline']}); 

$(document).ready(function(){
    // Get TIER1Tickets                 
    $("#divTendency").addClass("loading");

    $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: "getTIER1Tickets.php",
        data: "",
        success: function(html){
            // Succesful, load visualization API and send data
            google.setOnLoadCallback(drawData(html)); 
        }
    });  
});