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Re: How to pass a php variable to a javascript file (function)?

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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> Stefan Weiss wrote:
>
>> On 2015-10-02 09:44, Evertjan. wrote:
>>>>               var some_string = <?php echo json_encode($sometext); ?>;
>>>
>>> This is totally errorprone, you need to enclose the litteral string in
>>> '-s or "-s, ensuring that the ones used do not appear in the inner text.
>>
>> No, json_encode() already takes care of quoting and character escaping;
>> adding extra quotes around the result would be a syntax error.
>
> ACK.

It seems the FAQ needs an update with this information.

11.3 How do I get a jsp/php variable into client-side javascript?
<http://pointedears.de/scripts/faq/cljs/#getServerVariable>


>>>
>>> Why don't you create that string on the "index.html" PAGE,
>>> that you probably will have to rename to "index.php".
>>
>> Thats one way to do it. Unfortunately, we don't know enough about OP's
>> project to give any meaningful advice. For example, if we knew that
>> `some_string` is relatively short, we could suggest passing it along to
>> index.html in the query string.
>>
>>    location.href = "index.html?s=" + encodeURIComponent(some_string);
>>
>> The script included from index.html could then read it back from the
>> query string.
>
> It is important to emphasize “relatively short”, because this approach is
> subject to IE URL length limits which can be easily exceeded if the argument
> to encodeURIComponent() contains Unicode characters with code points beyond
> the US-ASCII range (as URI percent-encoding is UTF-8 based).

I wouldn't say it is easy to exceed the 2083 characters limit in IE, 
which applies to older versions. Also there are different URL length 
limits for bookmarks and IFRAMES in IE too. See:
<http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2014/08/13/url-length-limits-in-internet-explorer.aspx>



-- 
Joao Rodrigues

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How to pass a php variable to a javascript file (function)? JiiPee <no@notvalid.com> - 2015-10-02 00:13 +0100
  Re: How to pass a php variable to a javascript file (function)? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-10-02 09:44 +0200
    Re: How to pass a php variable to a javascript file (function)? Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2015-10-02 12:14 +0200
      Re: How to pass a php variable to a javascript file (function)? JiiPee <no@notvalid.com> - 2015-10-02 11:43 +0100
      Re: How to pass a php variable to a javascript file (function)? JiiPee <no@notvalid.com> - 2015-10-02 11:58 +0100
        Re: How to pass a php variable to a javascript file (function)? Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2015-10-02 13:38 +0200
          Re: How to pass a php variable to a javascript file (function)? JiiPee <no@notvalid.com> - 2015-10-02 12:53 +0100
            Re: How to pass a php variable to a javascript file (function)? JiiPee <no@notvalid.com> - 2015-10-02 13:46 +0100
            Re: How to pass a php variable to a javascript file (function)? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-02 13:51 +0100
          Re: How to pass a php variable to a javascript file (function)? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-10-02 21:42 +0200
            Re: How to pass a php variable to a javascript file (function)? Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2015-10-03 00:33 +0200
              Re: How to pass a php variable to a javascript file (function)? JiiPee <no@notvalid.com> - 2015-10-02 23:45 +0100
              Re: How to pass a php variable to a javascript file (function)? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-10-02 23:55 +0100
            Re: How to pass a php variable to a javascript file (function)? JiiPee <no@notvalid.com> - 2015-10-03 00:02 +0100
          Re: How to pass a php variable to a javascript file (function)? JiiPee <no@notvalid.com> - 2015-10-02 23:49 +0100
      Re: How to pass a php variable to a javascript file (function)? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-10-02 21:37 +0200
        Re: How to pass a php variable to a javascript file (function)? Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2015-10-03 00:34 +0200
          Re: How to pass a php variable to a javascript file (function)? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-10-03 04:35 +0200
            Re: How to pass a php variable to a javascript file (function)? Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2015-10-05 01:11 +0200
              Re: How to pass a php variable to a javascript file (function)? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-10-05 09:13 +0100
              Re: How to pass a php variable to a javascript file (function)? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-10-06 03:30 +0200
                Re: How to pass a php variable to a javascript file (function)? Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2015-10-10 00:27 +0200
        Re: How to pass a php variable to a javascript file (function)? Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2015-10-03 15:15 -0300
          Re: How to pass a php variable to a javascript file (function)? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-10-03 20:34 +0200
            Re: How to pass a php variable to a javascript file (function)? Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2015-10-03 15:59 -0300
              Re: How to pass a php variable to a javascript file (function)? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-10-03 22:15 +0200
    Re: How to pass a php variable to a javascript file (function)? JiiPee <no@notvalid.com> - 2015-10-02 11:36 +0100
      Re: How to pass a php variable to a javascript file (function)? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-10-02 16:34 +0200
        Re: How to pass a php variable to a javascript file (function)? JiiPee <no@notvalid.com> - 2015-10-02 16:00 +0100
          Re: How to pass a php variable to a javascript file (function)? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-10-02 16:03 +0100
            Re: How to pass a php variable to a javascript file (function)? JiiPee <no@notvalid.com> - 2015-10-02 17:08 +0100
  solution, thanks, seems like one suggestion lead to a solution JiiPee <no@notvalid.com> - 2015-10-02 17:07 +0100
    Re: solution, thanks, seems like one suggestion lead to a solution "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-10-02 20:29 +0200

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