Quick PHP Question...

[Aiiron]

Hey guys,

 

I am new here (and somewhat new to coding in general, though I am getting the hang of it). I searched php help forums on Google and ended up here. ANYWAY... I really hope you guys can help me out, I'd love to contribute to this forum every day

 

Okay, on to my question...

 

Is there any way that I can ECHO a variable into another variable? I don't mean like $var = $var2 (that would be pointless), I mean something like $var = echo $var2. Is there a function for that? The reason that I need to do this is...

 

My variable contains javascript, like so:

$url='http://www.esnips.com/nsdoc/'. $file .'<script type="text/javascript"> document.write("/?id=" + new Date().getTime() + "")</script>';

 

The javascript is to generate "id". I want to include that variable in another function like

include($url);

 

and similar situations without it literally showing the javascript. If I run the include command for this I get:

http://www.esnips.com/nsdoc/XXXXXXXXX/<script type="text/javascript"> document.write("/?id=" + new Date().getTime() + "")</script>

 

But if I echo it I get:

http://www.esnips.com/nsdoc/XXXXXXXXX/?id=XXXXXXXX

(which is how it should be)

 

So is there any way I can ECHO the variable into an include situation or another variable without it taking the javascript literally?

 

Thanks so much in advance. 

[Aiiron]

anyone? 

[schilly]

Maybe I don't understand what you're trying to do but why are you using Javascript?

 

$url='http://www.esnips.com/nsdoc/'. $file .'?id=' . time();

 

[Aiiron]

Maybe I don't understand what you're trying to do but why are you using Javascript?

 

$url='http://www.esnips.com/nsdoc/'. $file .'?id=' . time();

 

 

I have to in order to generate the ID (it fetches functions from another file) -- any clue how to echo a variable in a variable, though?

[nethnet]

What you're trying to do (and I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I'm not) is unfeasible, as PHP is a server-side language and JS is client-side.  Therefore, all of your PHP is parsed before there is any output to the browser, while JS is actually part of the output.  If all you're doing is getting the time, do what schilly recommended, as use the PHP function time().

 

Theo