[Resolved] includes & javascript & php

[kryianna]

I've got some complex pages that are combinations of php and javascript. For example, one hunk of code is building a casading menu dynamically. main.php requires menu.php, which is mostly javascript but with some php variables. Everything works fine; there's no problem with the functionality of the code.

I'd like to decrease file size, if possible. My included menu.php delivers the javascript code to the page, and it shows in the view source. I know that if it was just a linked .js file it would still be downloaded when a person saves the page, and it would just be hidden from the view source. Is there anything, really, to be gained by doing this? Is it even possible to do with needing to get the php variables inserted into the javascript?

Any suggestions would be welcome!

[bad76]

Hi,
you can, renaming menu.js as menu.php:

<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript" SRC="menu.php"></SCRIPT>

This give you an included js with php compiled... i think.

see you

[kryianna]

I tried that; didn't work.

I finally found a work around. I was lucky in that my php variables were all in one block of the javascript. I split the code up into three parts. The first and third were all javascript, so I could just include them as .js files. The middle section, the php, I included as a php script. So, end result still has the variable section showing up in a view source, but only as an addtional 3k as opposed to 15k.

Thanks for your help!