Greg K — Sat, 27 May 2006 18:40:02 +0000

Lets analize what you have done here.

The client's website is telling the browser to include javascript from the location:
http://mysitw/showad.php?user=tester (you should wrap that with quotes by the way)

The client's browser calles that URL. Your served executes the code and sets the variable $user to be whatever you have after user=. Inside the PHP tags, it does not output anything to the browser. All the browser gets from the call is the single line containing the word test

In the end, it is the same as having the original code in the client's webpage being:

&lt;script language="JavaScript"&gt;
  test
&lt;/script&gt;

'
As you can see, does nothing effective.

Now, if you want something effective, you could do something such as the following for the php file:

<?php
  // NOTE: probably should put code here to set the 
  //       content type to whatever a javascript file would
  //       normally give to a browser, I don't know it
  //       ofhand.



var userName;
userName = \"= @$HTTP_GET_VARS[\"user\"] \";
?>

(continue regular javascript here...)

-Greg