Inserting PHP variable into JavaScript function

[Guest]

I have a blog, and under each comment there is this link:

 

<a href="article/<?php echo $_GET['id']; ?>/#comments" onClick="quote(3, '<?php echo strip_tags($content); ?>');">Quote</a>

 

This calls the following JavaScript function:

 

function quote(thisField, text) {
  if (text == null) {
    var text = prompt('Enter quote:', '');
  }
  if (text != null) {
    document.thisForm.elements[thisField].value += "<quote>" + text + "</quote>";
  }
}

 

It works beautifully, as long as the PHP variable $content doesn't contain any quotes in it. I tried using htmlentities() and addslashes() on it with no luck. It doesn't insert anything at all into the form.

[Guest]

Really close to getting this to work:

 

<script type="text/javascript">
  var content = <?php echo json_encode($content); ?>;
</script>
<a href="article/<?php echo $_GET['id']; ?>/#comments" onClick="quote(3, content);">Quote</a>

 

However, now the last comment on the page is the one that always gets inserted. Probably because the js var content is getting set each time a comment is displayed. How do I work around this?

[Guest]

I thought this would work, but it doesn't:

<script type="text/javascript">
  content[i] = <?php echo json_encode($content); ?>;
</script>
<a href="article/<?php echo $_GET['id']; ?>/#comments" onClick="quote(3, content[i]);">Quote</a>
<script type="text/javascript">
  i ++;
</script>

 

Before the PHP while loop, I initialize the js array content and the js var i:

 

<script type="text/javascript">
  var i = 0;
  var content = new Array();
</script>

 

But, this results in the text not being passed at all. So now I'm being prompted for the text. Please help!

[Guest]

<script type="language/javascript">
  function copyContent() {
    document.thisForm.content.value += document.thatForm.content.value;
  }
</script>
<form name="thatForm">
  <textarea name="content"><?php echo stripSpaces($content); ?></textarea>
</form>
<a href="article/<?php echo $_GET['id']; ?>/#comments" onClick="copyContent()">Quote</a>

 

Doesn't work. Seriously, doesn't anyone know how to do this?

[Guest]

Well, hopefully everyone will be able to benefit from my labors. I finally got it to work. Here is the js function:

 

function copyContent(field1, field2) {
  document.getElementById(field1).value = document.getElementById(field2).value;
}

 

Here is the html form:

 

<form action="article/<?php echo $id; ?>#comments" method="post">
  New comment:<br />
  <textarea id="content0" name="content" rows="5" cols="69"></textarea>
  <p>
    <input type="submit" name="insert" value="Save" /> <input type="submit" name="cancel" value="Cancel" />
  </p>
</form>

 

Then, I get all the comments from a mysql database. Before the while loop, I set the php var $i = 1. Then, this html form is inside the loop, followed by a link that executes the function:

 

<form>
  <input id="content<?php echo $i; ?>" type="hidden" value="<quote><?php echo htmlentities(strip_tags($content)); ?></quote>" />
</form>
<a href="javascript:void()" onClick="copyContent('content0', 'content<?php echo $i; ?>');">Quote</a>

 

Finally, I increment the php var $i ++.