Display xml result javascript

dee · Jan 22, 2019

Hi all,

@RobM very kindly helped me previously on a project here with javascript. Im trying to add display functionality to the project now a while later. Im displaying foscam security cams in a private website with the ability to set and disable the motion detect alarm via the webpage . If the alarm triggers it then texts and emails screengrabs to a couple phones and email accounts.Thats all working fab.

Basically, i'd like to be able to display the alarm status on the same page.I can call a cgi url which returns the alarm status in xml format like this

Code:

<CGI_Result>
   <result>0</result>
   <isEnable>1</isEnable>
   <linkage>2</linkage>
   <snapInterval>2</snapInterval>
   <sensitivity>4</sensitivity>
   <triggerInterval>15</triggerInterval>
   <schedule0>281474976710655</schedule0>
   <schedule1>281474976710655</schedule1>
   <schedule2>281474976710655</schedule2>
   <schedule3>281474976710655</schedule3>
   <schedule4>281474976710655</schedule4>
   <schedule5>281474976710655</schedule5>
   <schedule6>281474976710655</schedule6>
</CGI_Result>

What id like to be able to do is check the <isEnable>1</isEnable> flag and if its 1 display 'alarm on' or if its 0 display 'alarm off'

Ive googled but not come up with much. Any help or pointing in right direction appreciated.

RobM · Jan 23, 2019

Are you using jquery? Is this something that only needs to be run when the page is loaded or will you be polling it on a loaded page?

dee · Jan 23, 2019

Morning Rob. Yep, J query. Whatevers easy to be honest. On page load is fine. I can always refresh to check status

RobM · Jan 23, 2019

Ok assuming you can get the data into a variable with jquery you can use the parseXML function eg:

var xml= data,
xmlDoc=$.parseXML(xml),
$xml=$(xmlDoc),
$enabled = $xml.find("isEnable").text();

You can see an example at http://hostedchasing.com/test.php