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JS - Call and execute javascript functions by names by passing the function name as a string. Use case: Pass an event to ALL Google analytics properties on a page.
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//http://stackoverflow.com/questions/359788/how-to-execute-a-javascript-function-when-i-have-its-name-as-a-string | |
// http://www.sitepoint.com/call-javascript-function-string-without-using-eval/ | |
function executeFunctionByName(functionName, context, args) { | |
var args = [].slice.call(arguments).splice(2); | |
var namespaces = functionName.split("."); | |
var func = namespaces.pop(); | |
for(var i = 0; i < namespaces.length; i++) { | |
context = context[namespaces[i]]; | |
} | |
return context[func].apply(this, args); | |
} | |
// Get the name of the Google Analytics object in case it was renamed by a plugin or something | |
// @link https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/renaming-the-ga-object | |
executeFunctionByName(window.GoogleAnalyticsObject, window, function(){ | |
var trackers = executeFunctionByName(window.GoogleAnalyticsObject+".getAll", window); | |
for(var i =0; i < trackers.length; i++) { | |
var name = trackers[i].get('name') + '.send'; | |
executeFunctionByName(window.GoogleAnalyticsObject, window, name, 'event', { | |
'eventCategory': 'event-category-here', | |
'eventAction': 'event-action-here', | |
'eventLabel': 'event-label-here', | |
'eventValue': 'event-value-here (change this into an actual number)' | |
}); | |
} | |
}); |
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