Mixing PHP and JavaScript

JosephWakeling

Hello,

Greetings from a completely new person. I need some help with a page that mixes PHP and JavaScript.

Some admissions are necessary. I know (next to) nothing about PHP and JavaScript. I've been put in the unfortunate position of having to fix a set of pages due to my former techy colleague disappearing.

What's happened is this: a website which my university was running as part of a research project was moved to a new server. This server seems to be set up so that PHP commands must be included within <script language="php"></script> tags rather than <?PHP ?>.

The problem comes with the following page which includes both PHP and JavaScript within the same stretch of code. This causes clashes between the different, nested <script> tags.

Could anyone advise on how to fix this? The code follows this message.

Many thanks,

  -- Joe

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">

<HTML>

<HEAD>
<TITLE>Willkommen</TITLE>

MM_FlashDispatch(
"loadmgflash.php?gametype=<script language="php"> print(urlencode("Start Game")) </script>&gameMode=<script language="php"> print($gameMode) </script>&playerID=<script language="php"> print($playerID) </script>",
"5.0",
false,				// don't require latest rev. of plug-in
"loadmg.php?gametype=<script language="php"> print(urlencode("Start Game")) </script>&gameMode=<script language="php"> print($gameMode) </script>&playerID=<script language="php"> print($playerID) </script>",
!MM_FlashUserDemurred(),	// don't install if user said no once
"loadmg.php?gametype=<script language="php"> print(urlencode("Start Game")) </script>&gameMode=<script language="php"> print($gameMode) </script>&playerID=<script language="php" print($playerID) </script>",
"loadmg.php?gametype=<script language="php"> print(urlencode("Start Game")) </script>&gameMode=<script language="php"> print($gameMode) </script>&playerID=<script language="php"> print($playerID) </script>",
false,
true // disable auto-install
);

</SCRIPT>

</BODY>

</HTML>

groovything

you can close the php tag before opening the javascipt tag

or you can use:

print "<script language='javascript'> etc...

if you use the print function, you have to escape / slashes with a "\" like "\/"

I'm not sure if your server environment will allow it, but I prefer to intersperse php within the page that way I can view the layout in dreamweaver like:

<? if( $you_want_to_do_this == "yes"){ ?>
<table>
 <tr>
  <td><? echo $something ?></td>
 </tr>
</table>
<script language="javascript">
javascript here
</script>
<?}?>

I am guessing your required version would look like this

<script language="php">
if( $you_want_to_do_this == "yes"){
</script>
<table>
 <tr>
  <td>
   <script language="php"> echo $something; </script>
  </td>
 </tr>
</table>
<script language="javascript">
javascript here
</script>
<script language="php">
}
</script>

zingbats

Is that possible?!

groovything

Originally posted by zingbats
<script language="php">

Is that possible?!

If so it's probably windows :p