Re: Question about php "forwarding" to javascript
| From: | David Otton | Date: | Sun, 15 Feb 2004 11:20:03 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Question about php "forwarding" to javascript | ||
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On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 07:52:11 +0100 (CET), you wrote:
Could be missing the point here because your question is quite vague.
However...
>I am using a web page that uses the following php code to display the
>contents of a dynamically update webpage:
>
><?php
>include("http://.../source.xls);
>?>
>
>Is it possible to "forward" the contents of the code to a javascript?
>eg if the file "source.xls" contains the text "help me" is it possible to
>send that text to a javascript? I am quite stuck here so any help would be
>greatly appreciated.
source.xls just contains a bit of text, right? And you want that to end up
in a Javascript variable?
First, I'd use file_get_contents() or file() to get the contents of
source.xls into a PHP array.
$source = file_get_contents ('http://.../source.xls');
Next, you have to remember that Javascript is just text, the same as HTML.
So you can embed $source into a Javascript block in the same way as you
would embed it into HTML.
<script language="Javascript">
function doAlert ()
{
var source = "<? echo ($source) ?>";
alert (source);
}
</script>
<a href='javascript:doAlert()'>Click Me</a>
Apologies for any mistakes in the Javascript, but I'm sure you get the idea.