PHP includes + external .js

Anon

I've just recently started coding in PHP and I've come across a problem I can't figure out(with my luck it's a simple solutions I've looked over). I've written an include file for the header of my pages that includes a link to an external javascript file similar to this:

<head>
<title>yadda yadda</title>
<script language="JavaScript1.2" src="javafile.js" type="text/javascript" />
</head>

and so on.

The first few lines of the page calling the include file are:

<?
include("header.inc");
?>

Now the problem. When I preview my page the .js file isn't getting processed and all the functions I've declared in the .js file will not work on the page(Hope this made since).

Lots of errors and loss of functionality of my pages is not making me comfortable with the use of PHP. I can add the link to the external .js in the main page but then I'll end up coding just as much as I would've without PHP and since this is the reason I started using PHP I'm hoping there's a solution.

Any help would be much appreciated.

phlow

to me, this doesn't sound like a php prob, because php is a server-side language while js is a client side one. if the inclusion does not fail and there are no parse errors, your js program seems to be incorrect.
check, if it works in a static page.

Anon

<head>
<title>yadda yadda</title>
<script language="JavaScript1.2" src="javafile.js" type="text/javascript" />
</head>

I assume you don't intend to have that trailing slash in the actual script...

<head>
<title>yadda yadda</title>
<script language="JavaScript1.2" src="javafile.js" type="text/javascript">
</head>

that alone may solve the problem.

Anon

When the page is static it works perfectly. Been using the same exact code for a few months now and never had a problem(including the trailing slash). All I've done is copy and paste the portion of code I wanted in the header file. Then did the include as stated previously. The code otherwise is completely unaltered.

Anon

lets see the whole kit-n-kaboodle. you must just have an error somewhere.

Anon

HA..HA HA...remember me saying it was probably something simple? I'm not sure why it wouldn't work the other way when I use the include but all I ended up doing was add a closing script tag after the external .js link. Looks like this:

Never had to do this in the past but this did for some reason fix the problem. I thank the two of you who offered help very much. And one last thing...has anyone had any trouble with javascripts and IE6? Just installed it and it make my scripts act all funny. Have a width of 100% on this one element and it only goes about 90% the width. IE5.5 still works perfect, it's just the IE6. Anyways that isn't even a PHP topic 🙂

Thanks again,
Dub

Anon

well, as you probably realize, JavaScripts biggest fault is its implementation. Between all the browsers and the versions, no one seems to do it the same. Its too bad. It could really be a good answer to a lot of problems, if these companies could stick to true implementation of standards. CSS has some similar issues.