including external apis

[mrBusch]

hello,

I am a bit new to javascript; I mostly deal with server-side applications so im not sure what i am doing.

I have written a bunch of javascript in my hmtl pages that use an external api (specifically google maps). I decided to clean up my web app and put all my scripts into a .js file, but now it does not work. I can only guess that it is because it can't find the google map objects. What do I say in the .js so that it knows where to find the api?

i used to say something like this in the my html pages:


<script src="http://maps.google.com/maps"></script>
<script>
//My javascript stuff
....
</script>

which worked fine and now i say:

<script src="http://maps.google.com/maps"></script>
<script src="functions.js"></script>

and now it doesn't work. This seems like a common thing you would want to do and i am surprised i couldn't find the answer on my own. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

[phpnovice]

Coding it like this:

<script src="http://maps.google.com/maps" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="functions.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

will work fine -- provided that you do not include any HTML (like script tags or HTML comment tags) at the beginning and ending of your .js file.