Topic: Running a function by name? (Page 1 of 1)

I'm sure i've done this before but for the life of me i can't find any reference to it.

Basically i want to run a function from within another function, when all i have is the name of the function that i want to run stored as a string.

so..

function f1(f2Name)
{
        f2Name();
}


f1('f2')

function f2()
{
      alert('blah')
}

I actually did have it working somehow through a few functions, but not anymore - not sure what I did...

Argg... nevermind - was putting brackets in wrong places... think i should go sleep some

How you wrote your f1() function implies that you pass the handle of a function, hence you should do:

f1( f2 );

But for what you want, your f1() function should look like:

function f1( functionName )
{
	var	theFunction=window[functionName];
	if( typeof(theFunction)=='function')
		return theFunction();

	//	fallback
	return null;
}

Hope that helps,

Cheers, it does. What i did above would have worked if i left the quotes off f1('f2') - should be f1(f2) - then its the same as what you did, without the step declaring the function variable.

I forgot functions are objects too!