PHP inside JS header

jc94062

I'm experimenting with a JS menu, its one of those that goes accross a page and as you move the mouse over an item a drop down menu appears.

Anyway, I've been trying to get some PHP working inside this for two reasons

To be able to have a hidden administation menu
To be able to generate the pull downs dynamically from a db

But it doesn't seem to work, even a simple test..

<? echo "Hello"; ?>

gave me a JS error, probably due to it all being inside <head> </head> and caused the whole menu not to load.

Is there any way around this that anyone can think of?

Thanks

matto

some essential questions that popped into my mind:

is php running on your server? have you tested it?
are you building js source code using php (ok) or trying to do the reverse (won't work because php is server-side and js/html is client-side)?
have you ensured that whenever php code is to be executed, the script is re-run (ie, the page is reloaded with additional/changed parameters)?

Anon

I'm not sure what you are wanting to accomplish, but you certainly can't get there by going that direction. PHP executes on the server only, so you can't embed php inside your JS. As you found out, the JS runtime simply doesn't know what to do with it.

jc94062

Okay.

And to mattos questions, PHP does work fine on my server!

What I want is a way to make the administation menu only appear when admins are logged in, currently I have...

<?
if ($admin >= "1") {
//<a href type links
}
?>

but I was trying to incorporate this into some JS, which, as I suspected, and as you confirmed, doesn't work :-(

Thanks for the info tho!