PHP String to Javascript string

[Fergal_O_Hanlon]

Hi All

I have a form that displays stock code information.

I also have an imge that a user chsould click that submits the form and deletes the chosen product.

As follows:

<a href="javascript:delete_item(<?php echo addslashes($stocklist[0]); ?>)";>
<img src="images/remove.gif" alt="Delete Product from Stocklist" width="23" height="20" border="0" />
</a>

I cannot use GET as I do not want info on address bar. So I figured I'd pass the Code in a php variable to the Javascript fucntion as above. The javascript function is as follows:

<script type="text/JavaScript">
<!--
function delete_item(delcode)
{
delcode = (delcode).toString();
if (confirm("Do you really want to delete this item? (OK = Yes Cancel = No)"))
{
document.update.task.value = "remove_item";
alert(delcode);
document.update.code.value = delcode;
document.update.submit();
}
}
//-->
</script>

It may not be the most effective/efficient code but I am stuck for the following reasons:

If the sotckcode is as follows: 612713 the deletion works fine

But if it is like this 035616 or AMS/PF/45 I get a javascritp undefined error.

Can you help or suggest PHP to javscript string conversion. It appears that if the string has leading 0's or starts with a letter it will not work??

Totally confused...

Thanks for all yrou help,

Fergal

[mtmosier]

Main problem is that you have to put quotes around the string in the javascript.

<a href='javascript:delete_item("<?php echo addslashes($stocklist[0]); ?>" );'>

As for a script to output a javascript string, I found this one in the user comments at php.net a while back. I don't remember which page it came from. But I don't this is whats affecting you at the moment anyway.

function jsAddSlashes($str) {
   $pattern = array(
       "/\\\\/"  , "/\n/"    , "/\r/"    , "/\"/"    ,
       "/\'/"    , "/&/"    , "/</"    , "/>/"
   );
   $replace = array(
       "\\\\\\\\", "\\n"    , "\\r"    , "\\\""    ,
       "\\'"    , "\\x26"  , "\\x3C"  , "\\x3E"
   );
   return preg_replace($pattern, $replace, $str);
}

[Fergal_O_Hanlon]

Worked a treat

Thanks a million for your help

Fergal.