You can do:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Payment Receipt</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
...
if($row) {
$myValue = 'Hi there!';
?>
<script>
var msg = "<?php echo $myValue; ?>"; //trying to set it to a JS var, so I could send it to below
//Your remaining js script here ...
</script>
<?php } else {
//your else condition
}
?>
</body>
</html>
Try this
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Payment Receipt</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
...
if($row) {
$myValue = 'Hi there!'
?>
<script>
var msg = "<?php $myValue; ?>";
</script>
<?php } else {
echo 'Incorrect Value';
}
?>
</body>
</html>
Simplifying your code (which you should always do when debugging!) you have this:
$myValue = 'Hi there!';
echo <<<JS001
<script type="text/javascript">
var msg = {$myValue};
</script>
JS001;
If you look at the HTML that’s returned to the browser, you’ll see that it looks like this:
<script type="text/javascript">
var msg = Hi there!;
</script>
The browser has no idea that “Hi there!” was supposed to be a string, so it tries to execute it as code.
What you wanted the output to be was this:
<script type="text/javascript">
var msg = 'Hi there!';
</script>
So we need to add those quote marks into the PHP:
$myValue = 'Hi there!';
echo <<<JS001
<script type="text/javascript">
var msg = '{$myValue}';
</script>
JS001;
As a more general solution, you can abuse the fact that JSON strings are valid JS values, and use json_encode in the PHP:
$myValue = 'Hi there!';
$myValueJson = json_encode($myValue);
echo <<<JS001
<script type="text/javascript">
var msg = {$myValueJson};
</script>
JS001;
This makes no difference in this case, but is useful for passing other types of value – arrays, null, etc
For a better code management, you should probably separate HTML, PHP, and JS code in different files.
Imagine something like this :
controller.php
$displayName="David";
include 'vue.php';
vue.php
<html>
...
<body>
<div id="php-data" data-displayName="<?php echo $displayName ?>"></div>
</body>
</html>
script.js
<script>
var msg = document.getElementById('php-data').dataset.displayName // "David";
</script>
I have the below piece of code in my test.php file. The code mainly has a variable defined in PHP, and I want to send it to a JavaScript function so it could POST it. Here’s the code :
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Payment Receipt</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
...
if($row) {
$myValue = 'Hi there!'; //the PHP variable (currently has a sample value, but will be string only)
//JS starts
echo <<<JS001
<script type="text/javascript">
var msg = {$myValue}; //trying to set it to a JS var, so I could send it to below function.
var ThunkableWebviewerExtension = {
postMessage: function (message) {
if (window.ReactNativeWebView) {
window.ReactNativeWebView.postMessage(message);
} else {
window.parent.postMessage(message, '*');
}
}
};
ThunkableWebviewerExtension.postMessage(msg);
console.log(msg);
alert('Message Sent');
</script>
JS001;
} else {
echo 'Incorrect Value';
}
?>
</body>
</html>
But when I run this code, I get this error on console : Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier. What should I do if I want to send just a simple string value to the JS code? What’s wrong currently?
Any help is appreciated! Thanks!
Thanks, @mPareek! I just want to confirm two things – 1) I see you haven’t put a semicolon at the end of
#1 Oh, it was a typo. I missed it. You can put it there. #2 NO it would not cause any errors.
Thanks. my JS function would also be there in the
Thanks, I’ll check and see if this code works for me.
@BigSantuary Please note I have added
How does it make sense to post exactly the same answer as I did? If you want to contribute provide some other way to do it.
If you look clearly it is not the same answer, , yours misses a semi colon
Thanks, @chyke007! Do I need to add that semicolon after
@BigSantuary technically it will not matter unless you write something after that. But I recommend you to put it for uniformity and avoid confusions(like we are having now 🙂 ).
Added it to show how it is done incase a second statement is needed.