php variables in javascript

sethrei

I have the following:
<pre>
<a href="#" onClick="MyWindow=window.open('hackme.php<?php echo "?";echo $i[1]; ?>','MyWindow','toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=yes,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=900,height=200,left=20,top=20'); return false; ">
</pre>
What do I need to do to use $[1] in the popup window ?

Anon

Javascript seems to dislike temporarily giving up processing to php. Example,

if(var adata = "<?php echo $data; ?>" == "")
{
STATEMENT
STATEMENT
}

Javascript gives errors in the above, even though all we want is for php to supply $data to javascript.

One roundabout way I dealt with it was to store $data in a cookie, then use javascript to read the cookie.

I'll be interested in knowing about an easier solution.

Richie
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mrphantastik

Why can't you say :
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<? if ($data == "whatever") { ?>
function MYfunction() {
statement...
}
>? }
else {
?<
function MyFunction2() {
Statement...
}
<? } ?>

That way you can control the variable a different way...

Richie Akins wrote:

Javascript seems to dislike temporarily giving up processing to php. Example,

if(var adata = "<?php echo $data; ?>" == "")
{
STATEMENT
STATEMENT
}

Javascript gives errors in the above, even though all we want is for php to supply $data to javascript.

One roundabout way I dealt with it was to store $data in a cookie, then use javascript to read the cookie.

I'll be interested in knowing about an easier solution.

Richie
-----------------------geocities.com/akindele/

Anon

But Javascript never sees PHP - by the time the Javascript engine gets anything PHP has already done its thing and is out of the picture! If Javascript still throws errors then they must be in the Javascript code.

As it happens I write the wee page:
-------test.html-----------
<head></head><body><script>
if(var adata = "kaboing" == "")
{
document.write('wibble '+adata);
}
else
{document.write('blag '+adata);
}

</script></body>

with the $data hardcoded

And Netscape politely informs me:

syntax error.

if(var adata = "kaboing" == "")

...^

Leave the 'var' out and it works fine.