javascript && PHP vars

[bmarker]

I am making the horrible fix that lovely MS made us do for active content for a flash movie (having to click to activate). I have to essentially document.write the embed code for the .swf. I was passing a PHP var into the flash movie via GET in the .swf query string ($SID). I can't seem to get the var to pass in now that its a .js file. Is this possible? I have tried breaking the string up in multiple ways but not quite sure if its even doable. PLEASE HELP!!!

function menuWrite()
{
    document.write('<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"codebase="//download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="780" height="250">\n');
    document.write('<param name="movie" value="top_menu.swf?sessID=<? echo($SID);?>"\n');
    document.write('<param name="quality"value="high">\n');
	document.write('<embed src="top_menu.swf?sessID=<? echo($SID);?>" width="780" height="250"quality="high"pluginspage="//www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">\n');
	document.write('</embed>\n');
	document.write('</object>\n');
}

[bogu]

bmarker wrote:

Is this possible?

No, is not posible your javascript file dont know php. Send as a param to that function your session ID ...

function menuWrite(sid) {
    ...
    document.write('<param name="movie" value="top_menu.swf?sessID='+sid+'"\n');
    ...
}

[bmarker]

Unfortunately I will have to pass in a PHP var some how. Its for a shopping cart session ID. Is there a way to convert the PHP var to Javascript somehow maybe through a cookie? I"m not experienced with javascript so I'm not sure what the possibilities are.

[bogu]

I just show u above one way of doing it, where u call your javascript function send your session Id as a param to that function, u can write a cookie too and read it from javascript ...

[Weedpacket]

Either:

1. Register the .js file extension to be processed by the server as PHP (cleaner, but means more work for PHP processing all those .js files);

2. Use a .php extension on the Javascript file instead of a .js one;

3. Write

   <script type="text/javascript">sessionID='<?php echo $SID?>';</script>
   <script type="text/javascript" src="yourJavascript.js" />

   which of course uses the "sessionID" variable - or it could be passed as a parameter as per bogu's suggestion.