Adding form varibles to Uploadify / Uploadifive

I started using this very nice script (Uploadify) to allow users to upload files to our server. One problem I found was that you can not add other inputs to the upload except at form load time. I found this to be annoying. And while there are some workarounds, I thought it wasn't as good as simply adding all the form sibling inputs to the upload. So, I modified the source code to allow uploading the sibling inputs.

If you find the lines here:

// Add the rest of the formData

for (i in settings.formData) {

      formData.append(i, settings.formData[i]);

}

And add in this code:

var parentform = $('#' + settings.id).closest('form');

$(parentform).find('input[type="text"], input[type="hidden"], select, textarea').each(function() {

    formData.append(this.name, this.value);

}

);

It will automatically add other (non-file) form inputs to the upload data.

New York Sales Tax Calculator VBSCRIPT

After having searched Google for hours to find a New York State tax rate calculator by address, I finally wrote this piece of code to scape the correct value from the NYS tax web site.

I thought I would share this with the world.

Detect if Facebook is blocked by firewall (revised)

I previously wrote about detecting when a user's firewall is preventing them from seeing Facebook like buttons and plugins.  I updated the detection algorithm so that it was more reliable, and wouldn't block other scripts from loading.  I also moved the script that loaded the Facebook library to load dynamically, so it wouldn't attempt to load unless Facebook was available. This prevented the ghostly spinning loading icon if it wasn't ever going to load.

var fbs = new Array ('http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#appId=193562130691498&xfbml=1');

function addScript(sourcefile) {
    var newscript =    document.createElement('script');
    newscript.setAttribute("type","text/javascript");
    newscript.setAttribute("src",sourcefile);
    document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(newscript);
}

function DetectFB() {
    var fbdetect = new Image();
    fbdetect.onerror = function () {
        //FB is blocked
         document.getElementById('fb-container').style.display='none';
        //document.getElementById('fb-container').innerHTML ='Sorry, FB is blocked.';
    }
    fbdetect.onload = function () {
        //FB is not blocked
        for (ssrc in fbs) {
            addScript(fbs[ssrc]);
        }
        setTimeout('FB.XFBML.parse()', 2000);

    }
    
    fbdetect.src = (document.location.protocol=='https:' ? "http://static" : "https:s-static") +".ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v1/yp/r/kk8dc2UJYJ4.png?"+Math.random();
}

function addLoadEvent(func) {
  if (window.addEventListener)
    window.addEventListener("load", func, false);
  else if (window.attachEvent)
    window.attachEvent("onload", func);
  else { // fallback
    var old = window.onload;
    window.onload = function() {
      if (old) old();
      func();
    };
  }
}

addLoadEvent(DetectFB);