Adding external JavaScript file to Magento

Question

How to add external JavaScript file to Magento, so it's code would be included on every frontend page?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4654822/adding-external-javascript-file-to-magento

Answer 1

Put the JS file somewhere into the "js" folder, and in the XML layout you can include it with:

    <reference name="head">
        <action method="addJs"><script>folder/file.js</script></action>
    </reference>

Hope that helps.

Edit: You can also do it in your block:

    protected function _prepareLayout()
    {
        $this->getLayout()->getBlock('head')->addJs('path/from/js/folder/to/your/file.js');

        return parent::_prepareLayout();
    }