I am trying to call a javascript function from php. According to all of the examples I have been looking at the following should work but it doesn't. Why not?
<?php
echo "function test";
echo '<script type="text/javascript"> run(); </script>';
?>
<html>
<script type="text/javascript">
function run(){
alert("hello world");
}
</script>
</html>
Your html is invalid. You're missing some tags.
And you need to call the function after it has been declared, like this
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function run(){
alert("hello world");
}
<?php
echo "run();";
?>
</script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
In this case you can place the run before the method declaration, but as soon as you wrap the method call inside another script tag, the script tag has to be after the method declaration.
Try yourself http://jsfiddle.net/qdwXv/
the function must declare before use
it should be
<html>
<script type="text/javascript">
function run(){
alert("hello world");
}
<?php
echo "function test";
echo run(); ;
?>
</script>
</html>
As others have suggested, the function needs to be declared first. But, if you need to echo out the JavaScript from PHP first, you can either store it in a PHP variable to echo out later, or have your code wait for the dom to finish loading first...
document.ready = function() {
run()
}
If you're using jQuery or another framework, they probalby have a better way of doing that... In jQuery:
$(function(){
run();
})
