calling a function?

[ginerjm]

I've never 'called' a function before, just used it as the target of an event ie, onclick="functionname".  I'm trying to do so in a little test php script to try out some stuff I got out of Resig's book.

 

in the html head section i have my script tag and the function

 

in the body i have some echo statements trying to output the results of a call to the function

 

echo 'paragraph contains'.getText("p1");

 

I get an undefined function error when I run this.  Is there some special syntax for 'calling' a js function?  I can't seem to find anything in the book on this.

[requinix]

JavaScript uses a + to concatenate strings together...

[.josh]

hmm looks more like you are trying to mix php with javascript...You cannot call javascript functions server-side.  PHP is parsed by the the PHP interpreter on the server.  Javascript is just arbitrary text to the server.  Javascript is parsed client-side by your browser.