Call php function from JavaScript

Question

Is there a way I can run a php function through a JS function?

something like this:

Answer 1

The only way to execute PHP from JS is AJAX. You can send data to server (for eg, GET /ajax.php?do=someFunction) then in ajax.php you write:

function someFunction() {
    echo 'Answer';
}

if ($_GET['do'] === "someFunction") {
    someFunction();
}

and then, catch the answer with JS (i'm using jQuery for making AJAX requests)

Probably you'll need some format of answer. See JSON or XML, but JSON is easy to use with JavaScript. In PHP you can use function json_encode($array); which gets array as argument.