Multi-language calls

[adrian_brooks]

I was just curious if there was an effective way to call a javascript function from within a PHP code block directly?

The following is what I would like to achieve;

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
function setStyleYPos(elementRule, offset)
{
var yVal = document.styleSheets[0].rules[elementRule].style.top.substring(0, document.styleSheets[0].rules[elementRule].style.top.length - 2);
var newYVal = yVal - offset;

return "position:absolute;left:10px;top:" + newYVal + "px;";
}
</script>

<?php
print "<div style=";
// ?? Code to call javascript function goes here ??
print ">\r\n";
?>

As you may be able to see, I would like to derive a manipulated string extract from a stylesheet. As of right now, javascript is the only way I know how to do this. Then I would like that string to fill in the needed text to complete my <div> tag's style property. I guess you could say that I am trying to write code dynamically.

I'm not even sure that this approach can even be achieved in any way, but am open to any and all suggestions.

Thanks😕

[jsim]

OK, lets see what you talking about.
That's the steps the php script pass trough before user see final result:
1. PHP parse and run your script
2. The generated page sent to the user
3. User get the page into the browser memory
4. Javascript executed on the USER side

So, you completely mixed up these steps 🙂

I think if you generate some page using PHP then you knows all of your styles. Try to use php to generate needed style.

[adrian_brooks]

I knew that there had to be some kind of a major issue with the fact that I was dabbling in server/client side coding and I also know that you can do the reverse of this due to its processing order of events. I guess I was just hoping that there may be a way to pull it off the way I was suggesting...I do appreciate your feedback. Thank you.

I was originally going to make all my styles be generated dynamically through PHP implementation...perhaps that will have to be my final solution then.

Take care