Use Javascript in one module to modify display of another module

By gracefulpig on 6 May 2015 at 18:57 UTC

I ran into this trouble:

I want to use javascript to modify the display of one module (module1) from another module (module2). That is to say, module2 has a couple of .js files and maybe a sort of "hook_theme_alter" function that are used to modify the display of some widgets in module1. module1, however, does not know the existence of module2. I cannot see the hook_theme_registry_alter can do this job.

Thanks a lot.

Comments

Javascript doesn't care what

Jaypan commented 6 May 2015 at 23:16

Javascript doesn't care what module it comes from. Just include the JS file on the page it needs to be included on, and it will execute.

Module2 redirects to module1

gracefulpig commented 7 May 2015 at 17:44

Thank you Jaypan. The thing was, drupal runs to module2, which processes something, and then is redirected to the page generated by module1. So when the module1 was running, how the javascripts can be loaded from module2? In other words, how can module2 notice when the module1 is running and then add javascripts in itself module to the pages generated by module1?