I can't get PHP to parse my Javascript

Anon

First of all, I'm a newbie to PHP, so let's get that out of the way. I'm in a tight bind, right now. I'm working on a user interface for product that has to demo tomorrow afternoon. I created the JavaScript-powered UI independently of the rest of the system hoping that I could just cut and paste the HTML into the PHP document. No such luck. My code won't parse. I've tried echoing the javascript but it still won't parse.

I'm trying to incorporate an html header that is to appear at the top of all of the PHP pages in the system. My code has some javascript from a nice little button that uses image swapping. I just need to be able to find a way for PHP to display my javascript. Any simple examples?

Thanks

van__

Dunno man, there's too many items left in the dark here.

Such as...
How are your pages structured?
How much code is encapsulated in objects/functions?
How dependant is your javascript on PHP?

...just to name a couple.

What you could try is to rip out all your javascript stuff into seperate files and then
leave it as raw javascript and where you need php output, just wrap it up inside an opening/closeing pair like so...
<? echo $var; ?>

Then to get the javascript where you want it,
just include it in the appropriate sections of your php scripts...
<?
include('javascript_section.inc');
?>

And it WILL parse the PHP but NOT the javascript.

guiltyspark

There's a section in the code that looks like this:

$html_header '

The purpose of the $html_header section is to display an html header at the top of the page. I took out the original HTML and pasted in my more fancy HTML code with the javascript link button with the image swaps.

tozanni

Try using double quotes " " instead of single quotes '' to assign a value to $html_header

guiltyspark

Been there done that...Eduardo.

guiltyspark

Okay, so here's the code that I have to insert the Javascript into:

$html_header = '

<head>
<title>Summer School Contract System</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<div align="center"><img src="/cofc.gif" width="640" height="150"></div>
</body>

It's an include file that puts the same header on the top of each PHP page. This is the default header that works perfectly, but when I put javascript in it, it screws up. How do I put javascript in here so that looks the way I want it to. I tried using...

echo "<Javascript code>"; but it still won't work. I don't like the plain HTML header that we have now.

Thanks

van__

Write you include file like this:

start writing some php...
<?
//php here
?>

...no more PHP...
<script language="javascript">
//scripts in here
</script>

want more PHP?
<?
do some stuff in here.
?>