Including js functions in html head tag

Anon

I have a standard HTML header and footer include files on a site. Some pages use javascript functions to do simple data checking, focus setting, etc.

Has anyone got a neat way of passing only the required functions to the header file to be included between the head /head tags?

Writing them out to an include file seems wasteful and runs the possibility of two sessions overwriting the one file.

Passing them as a string would be nice but gets very messy with all quotes, etc.

ame12

I don't have anything super-clever but always use a format like the following:

<?php
include("prehead.php");
?>

<?php
include("header.php");
include("jsfun1.php");
include("jsfun2.php"); //etc
?>
...
<?php
include("footer.php");

I manually include the clumps of JS functions I need.

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Anon

Thanks. That's what I'm coming up with but it means splitting the header file into two parts - one upto the start of the javascript includes and the other from there on.

Can anyone better this?

Donncha

jpellet

I call functions which write javascript from my functions which write html like so:

function write_js(){
?>
<script>
javascript here
</script>
<?php
}

function write_html($title){
?>

Then in my script I call:
write_html("My title is here");

Anon

Thanks for your help. I'm adapting your idea and going to use it this way:

//A typical php web "page" looks like this ...
<?php
function head_include (){ }
include("header.inc.php");
?>
<h2>Page Contents</h2>
<p>etc. etc. etc.</p>
<?php include("footer.inc.php");
// end of "page" file. ?>

//header.inc.php looks like this ...

<head>
<?php head_include(); ?>
<STYLE> style stuff goes here </STYLE>
// now calls the head include function
// it will include whatever was in the "page" file.
// this can be style, meta or javascrips, etc.
<?php head_include(); ?>
</head>
<body>

Now anything I want in the HEAD section just gets put inside the head_include {}s. For javascript stuff I just drop out of php as you suggest:
function head_include(){
?>
<script>
javascript here
</script>
<?php
}

It works. It's flexible. It only uses one header file.