passing array from php to Java script

[brandie1]

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Can some one please HELP!!!! How do I pass an array from php to JavaScript?

Thanks...

[Weedpacket]

Write it.

echo "soemthing = new Array( (whatever the syntax for specifying a Javascript array is));";

[pppppp]

u canot pass array directly from php to javascript.. u have to make a string using special characters and then remove the special characters in javascript...
e.g $str .= "@".$id."##".$name; --- $id is the index and $name is the value
and just build the array in javascript removing "@" using split('@') function and then again use split to remove "##" and form ur new array in javascript..

[n_wattam]

you can pass the php array to a text field within a form, then you can then use javascript to read the data from the form to the java array

[vaaaska]

Everybody is right basically...I do it Weedpackets way and simply write it out (using PHP):

$images = array('image1.jpg','image2.jpg','image3.jpg');

foreach ($images as $key => $image) {
  $javascript .= "var image[$key] = '$image';\n";
}

echo "<script type='text/javascript'>'$javascript</script>";

To illustrate the concept...and yeah, you may need to run some htmlspecialchars and such on your outputs to make javascript happy.