Use JavaScript variable as function name?

Question

I have the following code in Javascript:

jQuery(document).ready(function(){
    var actions = new Object();
    var actions;
    actions[0] = \'create\';
            


        

Answer 1

You need to combine SLaks' and RoToRa's answers:

var actionNames = [ 'create', 'update' ];   //This creates an array with two items

for (var i = 0; i < actionNames.length; i++) {
    window[ actionNames[i] + 'Dialog' ] = function() {
        $('#'+ actionNames[i] +'dialog').dialog('destroy');
        $('#'+ actionNames[i] +'dialog').dialog({
            resizable: false,
            height:600,
            width:400,
            modal: true,
            buttons: {
                Cancel: function() {
                    $(this).dialog('close');
                }
            }
        });
    }
}

Since you're running this in the document ready event handler, the "this" variable would refer to the document, not the window.