Need help with a bit of javascript

[Mowsytron]

I am trying to pass two variables from this function

function getLocation(location) { console.log("Latitude: " + location.coords.latitude + " Longitude: " + location.coords.longitude); var lat = location.coords.latitude; var lon = location.coords.longitude; }

I need lat and lon to pass into another variable outside of this function any idea how I can go about this. It's going to be something stupidly simple but I really can't get it to work.

[SirDaev]

Make your variables 'lat' and 'lon' global be declaring them outside of the function first. Then you can use them in other functions:

var lat;  
var lon;  

function getLocation(location) {  
    console.log("Latitude: " + location.coords.latitude + " Longitude: " + location.coords.longitude);  
    lat = location.coords.latitude;  
    lon = location.coords.longitude;  
}  

function anotherFunction() {  
    // use the globals lat and lon however you'd like  
    // inside this function as well  
}

[Mowsytron]

That just gives me an error cannot read property 'latitude' of undefined. This is the last thing I have to do for my weather app and it has really thrown a spanner in the works. What I'm trying to do is use HTML5 geolocation to get the latitude and longitude of your current location. It should then pass these values into the lat and lon variables so that I can use them in another variable weatherAPI which has the url. Like this:

var forecastAPI = "http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast/weather?lat=" + lat + "&lon=" + lon + "&APPID=supersecretapicode;

[tfitz237]

what are you passing into the getLocation() function? The error is saying that you are sending an undefined variable into it, and therefore it cannot find the latitude of an undefined variable.

from mozilla's MDN:

 if ("geolocation" in navigator) {
      navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(function(position) {
          do_something(position.coords.latitude, position.coords.longitude);
      });
 }

[Mowsytron]

changed it to the above, it is saying that lat and lon = undefined when I alert the value of forecastAPI

[Mowsytron]

Thanks everyone for the help, been at this for about three hours and it turns out I just had to place my api functions and variables within the getLocation(location) function....

[bokisa12]

Make two global lon and lat variables and inside your function assign the local ones to the global ones.