PHP/Javascrpt not werkin together

Anon

In the head of ht PHP document I have the following javascript function:

function profile() {
window.open('http://pimpshack.net/bb/profile.php?username=$username','Profile','resizable=yes,toolbar=0,location=0,directories=0,status=0,menubar=0,scrollbars=1,copyhistory=0,width=480,height=400');
}

</SCRIPT>
</head>

$username is defined later in the script.
The javascript isn't recognizing '$username' as a variable. How can I get this to werk?

Thanks in advance for any help you might provide.

-=Lazzerous=-

Anon

You must escape the variable for php to use the value when printing out this script.

window.open('http://pimpshack.net/bb/profile.php?username=','Profile','resizable=yes,toolbar=0,location=0,directories=0,status=0,menubar=0,scrollbars=1,copyhistory=0,width=480,height=400');

$username must be defined before you print this function out because it will print out a blank and won't give you the results you may be looking for. One way around this could be that you have the profile function have the username for the argument, then you could pass it in at that time and put a javascript variable reference in you window.open.

Anon

allright - here's some clarification as to what I'm doing

In each page (this is for a bulletin board) Whenever a users name is listed, it will link to profile.php. When it links, I use HTTP encoding to specify the user to lookup: <a href="profile.php?username=$username">$username</a>

$username is generated from a database call in each script

I want this to open in a new window of a specified size. putting "target="new"" within the <a href> statement will open a new window, but it wont let me specify the size.

Now - can anyone help me with this problem?

Thanks,
Lazzerous

Anon

Well, first $username will need to be defined before you print the <head> statement to the browser.

And you need to break the HTML output to the browser and echo the $username variable from <? echo $username; ?> command then restart your HTML output. Like this:

function profile() {
window.open('http://pimpshack.net/bb/profile.php?username='<? echo $username; ?>','Profile','resizable=yes,toolbar=0,location=0,directories=0,status=0,menubar=0,scrollbars=1,copyhistory=0,width=480,height=400');
}

</SCRIPT>
</head>

So long as the $username variable is defined before this HTML output is sent to the browser, you should be fine.

Hope this helps.

-b