I'm adding react.js to a section of my app and am trying to embed some php code into react.js in order to not have to rewrite my whole backend which I had written in php. The idea would be something like the following:
...render(){
return(
<h1><?php echo "hello world"; ?></h1>
)
}...
Unfortunately, this does not compile. I have tried every possible permutation I can think of and nothing will work, yet I feel this must be possible. Thanks!
Felix
You could have PHP output your JS but you absolutely positively shouldn't. You could also make ajax calls like everyone else to fetch data from external sources such as a PHP script.
Maybe something along the lines of:
...componentDidMount() {
fetch("http://example.com/data.php")
.then(response => response.json())
.then(result => this.setState(result));
}...
...render() {
return(
<div>{this.state.result && this.state.result.foo}</div>
);
}...
You're going to need to rebuild your current HTML output from PHP as React components. PHP now becomes a web service that looks something like this:
<?php
// Business logic goes here:
$data=new stdClass();
$data->name="Uzebeckatrente";
$data->foo="bar";
echo json_encode($data);
Lumen/Laravel is my personal choice of PHP platforms for web services.
