Re: Including JS code that uses PHP

On 05.09.2017 at 22:58, Larry Martell wrote: > I have some javascript code that has PHP in it like this: > > var CLIENT_ID='<?php echo $CLIENT_ID; ?>' > > If I put the JS code directly in a php file with: > > <script type="text/javascript"> > . > . > . > </script> > > Then at run time CLIENT_ID has the value I want. I want to use the > same JS code in many php files. But if I include the JS code like > this: > > <script src="login.js" type="text/javascript"> > > Then that php code does not get run and CLIENT_ID has the literal > string '<?php echo $CLIENT_ID; ?>' > > Is there a way I can reuse my JS file and still have embedded PHP in it? There might be, but consider to simply pass the required values as data to JavaScript instead. A very simplistic way might be: PHP file: <?php $serverData = ['client_id' => CLIENT_ID']?> <script>var serverData = <?=json_encode($serverData)?></script> <script src="login.js"> JavaScript file (login.js): alert(serverData.CLIENT_ID); -- Christoph M. Becker