Busy — Sun, 28 Dec 2003 02:16:54 +0000

Well after all that (finally got it working properly) it doesn't work in Opera6, looking at Operas help forums it seems the version 6 browser has some bugs where javascript is concerned, very slow on document.write and weird results as documented by the staff there.

Am downloading version 7 now (1.3kb/s) and see if that helps, if not have to either find another script or boogie up a browser redirect to a noscript tag lot.

becoming a isolated monk is looking more and more promising

[edit]Opera7 displays as it should[/edit]

ROB — Sun, 28 Dec 2003 01:34:04 +0000

fyi external js files and stylesheets can contain php code as long as they have a php extension.

For example:

&lt;script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="./myjavascriptfile.php"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

Suzanne — Sun, 28 Dec 2003 00:50:01 +0000

ha! I run into that problem myself and I still didn't see it! Doh!

Busy — Sat, 27 Dec 2003 23:25:54 +0000

Kinda makes sense not being able to parse inside .js file
I placed the PHP/javascript on the page and now I get a result, not the one I need but is something (result is "should of been quicker" so means its not getting the year or month correctly)

Oh and I figured out why the basic example wasn't working, anyone spot the problem now

<?php
$php_var = "from PHP";
?>

<style type="text/javascript">
var js_var =

<?php
 print $php_var
?>

;
document.write(js_var);
style>

style should be script,
lack of sleep, dead lines and to much going on at the same time causes premature aging, insanity loss and wrinkles

Thanks

Suzanne — Sat, 27 Dec 2003 23:03:56 +0000

The problem, I think, is the order, no?

You have a .php page that is parsed -- things are sent without parsing, generally the included .js are just straight html, right? So they are included not as part of the .php page, just as JavaScript.

When using JavaScript and PHP, all the PHP has to be parsed FIRST, then the JavaScript can use it. It can't be parsed while inside a JavaScript file (.js) -- afaik, if the JavaScript is written on the page directly, not included, it should work. If it's included, it skips the parsing and the PHP won't be, well, parsed.

http://www.php-forum.com/p/viewtopic.php?t=2412

So you would be better to write the JavaScript with PHP.

Busy — Sat, 27 Dec 2003 22:57:33 +0000

the main script has PHP in .js file, but last example isn't (but does have the type)

PHP should be parsed first, then values given to JS, no?

Suzanne — Sat, 27 Dec 2003 22:53:09 +0000

so you have the php in a .js file? How would that get parsed? The JavaScript won't be parsed as php, it's a type text/javascript?!

Busy — Sat, 27 Dec 2003 22:51:42 +0000

if I do this on the main page:

<?php
$php_var = "from PHP";
?>

var js_var="

<?php
 print $php_var
?>

";
document.write(js_var);

var cd_year = "

<?php
 echo $ends_year
?>

";
var cd_month = "

<?php
 echo $ends_month
?>

";
var cd_day = "

<?php
 echo $cd_day
?>

";
var cd_hour = "

<?php
 echo $cd_hour
?>

";
var cd_min = "

<?php
 echo $cd_min
?>

";
var cd_sec = "

<?php
 echo $cd_sec
?>

the output is:
--------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------
var cd_year = "2003"; var cd_month = "12"; var cd_day = "2"; var cd_hour = "3"; var cd_min = "13"; var cd_sec = "55";

so the PHP variables do have values but the PHP to Javascript isn't displaying

Busy — Sat, 27 Dec 2003 22:33:20 +0000

output is :
NaN days NaN hours NaN minutes, and NaN seconds left until The result

if you change this line
mycountdown.setEventDate(cd_year, cd_month, cd_day, cd_hours, cd_minutes, cd_seconds);
to numbers, ie:
mycountdown.setEventDate(2004, 12, 12, 0, 0, 0);
it will work, so its not getting the PHP values, but if I echo the PHP values (on the main page, not in the included js file) they are there but somehow not registering in the javascript file.

Thats why I gave that very basic example (post #1), it has to be something very simple I'm over looking - php related

JeevesBond — Sat, 27 Dec 2003 12:49:21 +0000

Try removing the PHP and just using text values...Find whether it is the PHP or JS which is at fault.