How to get Javascript to "communicate" with PHP

Question

Hey All

I have the following code (PHP):

  $link = array(
    "<ul>
          <li><a href="index.html" class="active">Home</a></li>
          <li><a href="whatwedo.html">What We Do</a></li>
          <li><a href="howitworks.html">How It Works</a></li>
          <li><a href="support.html">Support</a></li>
          <li><a href="lalalala_hiding_paypal_url_details">Sign Up</a></li>
          <li><a href="contact.php">Contact Us</a></li>
        </ul>",
    "<p>hi</p>",
    "<img src="images/illy.png" />",
    "<a href="index.html">go to index</a>",
    "<h3>blah</h3>",
    "<p>yipeeeeeeeee!</p>");

    // Choose a random piece.
    $i = sizeof($link);
    srand((double)microtime()*1000000);

    // Show random piece.
    $result = $link[rand(0,$i - 1)];

The above is inside a PHP file.

I have another file (HTML File) which includes:

<script type='text/javascript' src='http://website.net/myphpfile.php'&gt;
</script>

And I would like to display in pure javascript the $result of the PHP function where ever the javascript scripts tags are placed.

Is there anyway I can do this easily?

Thank you

Answer 1

Just make myphpfile.php echo javascript code.

echo "var x=171;";
echo "alert(x+' the number');";

OR

$js=<<<JAVASCRIPT
var t=10100;
alert(t);
JAVASCRIPT;
echo $js;