A year ago, I was contracted to move a website that had no business being on the open web to an internal website. They were in no rush to get it. I was starting a new job. It took me several months to complete.
I finished and delivered it in December, and for 5 months they were happy. Last week, I got an email telling me it had stopped working.
I took a look Saturday morning and inside the offending .php file I found
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/ui/jquery-ui-git.js"></script>
It took me a while to realize, it’s referring to the absolute bleeding edge version of jquery-ui. I could run a script to update every php file.
for f in $(grep query-ui-git -rl) ; do sed -i 's,jquery-ui-git,1.11.3/jquery-ui.min,' $f; done
And my script worked and my local copy of the website worked.
A question arises. “Why did the original developer use the bleeding edge version of jquery-ui?”
I could find the developer; but unless she happens to remember, I’ll never know.
Another question: “Does it make sense to use an external javascript file?” This site is running on the user’s local machine. Referencing the online version of jquery-ui doesn’t make sense.
I’ll have to download js file into the local machine and run my bash again, and this time to point it locally.
wget https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.3/jquery-ui.min.js
for f in $(grep 1.11.3/jquery-ui.min -rl) ; do sed -i 's,https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.3/,/,' $f; done
I think there’s probably a script that already does that for me.