Problem with using Javascript inside a Switch()

[devx]

In my header and footer i've got the HTML for the layout of my site.

include_once("$root/includes/header.php");

switch($mode)
{
case "newmap":
include("$root/docent/newmap.php");
break;
}

include_once("$root/includes/footer.php");

inside the file newmap.php if got the php-code that i use for the site
inside this code ive got some error-windows for the users. I use the
script below to call them inside the file newmap.php

if (mysql_num_rows (mysql_query("SELECT pparent FROM pagina WHERE
pparent ='$menu->id'"))>0)
{
?>
<script language="JavaScript">
name = "<? echo $menu->name; ?>";

window.alert("Cannot remove'"+name+"'..! This map has one or more
submaps, remove this first....!!")
</script>
<?
}

My problem is that in this switch structure the javascript runs first
and i get a window but my site disapears (loses the header and footer)
and when i push "ok" in the window it jumps back to the php. including
header and footer again does not work.

When i do this with a if else-statement i haven't got this problem. And
i see the whole site with a javascript window in front.
How do i solve this problem..!!!

Thanx anyway Greetings Ivan Spijkers

[herve]

Hi,

maybe if you "print()" your Javascript statements
instead of including them between your PHP statements ?

print "<script language=\"JavaScript\"> ";
print "name = ".$menu->name;

etc.

Hervé.

[devx]

Hmmm...i've also tried it with echo that doesn't work, but i wil try it with print, thanks

[Weedpacket]

...no, I don't think that's the problem. (it's actually the fastest way to produce output).

Could you narrow things down to a complete test case? The sort of minimum that shows the problem?

[devx]

I don't understand the question...
maybe U mean something like this:

<?
include ("header.php") //header+footer=weblayout(html)
switch($question)
{
case "good":
include ("/goodanswer.php");
include ("/footer.php");
break;

   case "wrong": 
     include ("/footer.php"); 
     ?> 
       <script language="JavaScript">window.alert 
         ("wrong answer!.")    
       </script> 
     <? 
   break; 
  } 

?>

If $question=wrong the browser wil show the alertbox first and then (after klicking) the included HTML code...

IF I use this in an IF ELSE structure, it shows the included HTML code and the alertbox..