I am new to PHP. I need to output the following JavaScript with PHP. This is my code:
You should escape the JavaScript string delimiters inside the PHP string. You're using double quotes for both PHP and JavaScript strings. Try like this instead:
<html>
<body>
<?php
// Here, we use single quotes for PHP and double quotes for JavaScript
echo '<script type="text/javascript">';
echo 'document.write("Hello World!")';
echo '</script>';
?>
</body>
</html>
You have to escape quotes on both JavaScript and PHP when the string delimiter are the same as the quotes:
echo "\""; // escape is done using a backslash
echo '\'';
Same in JavaScript:
alert("\""); // escape is done using a backslash
alert(echo '\'');
But because it's very hard to read a string with such escape sequences, it is better to combine single with double quotes, as needed:
echo '"';
echo "'";
You are using " instead of ' It is mixing up php syntax with javascript. PHP is going to print javascript with echo function, but it is taking the js codes as wrong php syntax. so try this,
<html>
<body>
<?php
echo "<script type='text/javascript'>";
echo "document.write('Hello World!')";
echo "</script>";
?>
</body>
</html>
You need to escape the double quotes like this:
echo "<script type=\"text/javascript\">";
echo "document.write(\"Hello World!\")";
echo "</script>";
or use single quotes inside the double quotes instead, like this:
echo "<script type='text/javascript'>";
echo "document.write('Hello World!')";
echo "</script>";
or the other way around, like this:
echo '<script type="text/javascript">';
echo 'document.write("Hello World!")';
echo '</script>';
Also, checkout the PHP Manual for more info on Strings.
Also, why would you want to print JavaScript using PHP? I feel like there's something wrong with your design.
You want to do this:
<html>
<body>
<?php
print '
<script type="text/javascript">
document.write("Hello World!")
</script>
';
?>
</body>
</html>
instead you could easily do it this way :
<html>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
<?php
$myVar = "hello";
?>
document.write("<?php echo $myVar ?>");
</script>
</body>
You need to escape your quotes.
You can do this:
echo "<script type=\"text/javascript\">";
or this:
echo "<script type='text/javascript'>";
or this:
echo '<script type="text/javascript">';
Or just stay out of php
<script type="text/javascript">