[SOLVED] php var into js = headache

[abazoskib]

<script type="text/javascript">setTimeout(extendSession, <?php echo $timeLeft; ?>, "<?php echo $id; ?>");</script>

 

i keep getting 'undefined' as the value for where $id should go. echo $id; returns the correct value. what am i doing wrong?

[RichardRotterdam]

I suggest you look in your browser source and see how the javascript gets generated. What does that look like in plain javascript?

[abazoskib]

if i echo the statement without it being run as javascript it loooks like it should run.

here is the echo

 

<script type="text/javascript">setTimeout(extendSession, 10798000, "d8aee766_addf_4cc5_b51c_17294215f928");</script>

 

extendSession runs after the specified timeout perfectly, however the parameter does not get passed as its value, it gets passed as 'undefined'

[RichardRotterdam]

A couple of questions for you regarding the following code

<script type="text/javascript">
setTimeout(
  extendSession, 
  10798000, 
  "d8aee766_addf_4cc5_b51c_17294215f928"
);
</script>

the third arguement is optional and the values allowed are (JScript | VBScript | JavaScript)

That third value does not make sense here.

 

What does the extendSession function look like?

 

maybe your javascript should look like:

<script type="text/javascript">
setTimeout('extendSession( "<?php echo $id; ?>")', <?php echo $timeLeft; ?>);
</script>

[abazoskib]

It worked! Thank Dj Kat, I think I kept messing up the double and single quotes. I was up till 3:30 last night trying to figure it out.