Using Javascript within a PHP framework (Omeka)

[redgreen99]

(Cross-posted to Javascript area)

I am using a PHP CMS much like Drupal (it's called Omeka). I'd like to include an image carousel on my pages, and have only found Javascript that does this (no PHP, which would make things easier). I've read that I can include the Javascript in my php file by echoing the script something like below, but that is not working. Any help you can would be appreciated (as well as any PHP image gallery carousels you might have seen!). Thank you!

 

This is the actual Javascrip I wish to include:

<script type="text/javascript" src="javascripts/compressed.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$('slideshow').style.display='none';
$('wrapper').style.display='block';
var slideshow=new TINY.slideshow("slideshow");
window.onload=function(){
	slideshow.auto=true;
	slideshow.speed=8;
	slideshow.link="linkhover";
	slideshow.info="information";
	slideshow.thumbs="slider";
	slideshow.left="slideleft";
	slideshow.right="slideright";
	slideshow.scrollSpeed=4;
	slideshow.spacing=5;
	slideshow.active="#fff";
	slideshow.init("slideshow","image","imgprev","imgnext","imglink");
}
</script>

 

This is how I tried to work it into the PHP (but it doesn't work):

<?
echo "<script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"javascripts/compressed.js\"></script> \n";
echo "<script type=\"text/javascript\"> \n";
echo "$('slideshow').style.display='none'; \n";
echo "$('wrapper').style.display='block'; \n";
echo "var slideshow=new TINY.slideshow(\"slideshow\"); \n";
echo "window.onload=function(){ \n";
echo "slideshow.auto=true; \n";
echo "slideshow.speed=8; \n";
echo "slideshow.link=\"linkhover\"; \n";
echo "slideshow.info=\"information\"; \n";
echo "slideshow.thumbs=\"slider\"; \n";
echo "slideshow.left=\"slideleft\"; \n";
echo "slideshow.right=\"slideright\"; \n";
echo "slideshow.scrollSpeed=4; \n";
echo "slideshow.spacing=5; \n";
echo "slideshow.active=\"#fff\"; \n";
echo "slideshow.init(\"slideshow\",\"image\",\"imgprev\",\"imgnext\",\"imglink\"); \n";
echo "}\n";
echo "</script>";
?> 

[haku]

Why bother using echo statements? Just close your php tag before outputting the script, and reopen it after outputting the script.

[izym]

Things in "" will be executed in some way. Explained in code:

<?php
$var1 = "test";
$var2 = $var1;   // Results in $var2 being equal to "test"
$var3 = "$var1"; // Results in $var3 being equal to "test"

Therefor you code will give a warning, since you're trying to access the variable called $('slideshow'). A variable in PHP may only consist of letters, numbers and underscore, where the first letter may only be a letter or an underscore. But as pointed out previously in this thread, why even bother writing it in PHP?