Insert PHP output into JS variable.

[kirill578]

Is it possible to make JavaScript get output our of php page?

for instance:

i want to insert this page

something.php?name=jack

into

var data

 

[trq]

Pretty simple using jQuery.

 

var data = '';

$.ajax({
  url: 'something.php?name=jack',
  success: function(html) {
    data = html;
  }
});

[jcanker]

In short, what you're talking about is what AJAX is:  Asynchronous Javascript and XML.

While it originally took XML from (usually) php output and worked with it on the javascript side, the term AJAX incorporates all types of returned data, including html, text, JSON, and JSONP. 

 

What was used in the above example was jQuery, a javascript framework that makes a lot of javascript, but especially AJAX pathetically easy to write and work with.  I was fumbling all over trying to learn javascript in order to do AJAX, but jQuery got me up and writing code practically overnight.