Apr 2, 2021 · JavaScript is a client side technology (runs in the users browser) and PHP is a server side technology (run on the server). If you want to do this you have to make an ajax request to a PHP script and have that return the results you are looking for.

Nov 19, 2013 · PHP runs on the serverside where there is no javascript engine, the javascript has to be echo'ed to the browser just like HTML, as that is where javascript is executed. As a sidenote, this is generally a bad idea, you should have your javascript in it's own file instead.

Jul 15, 2016 · The php in this case is simply echoing javascript to the page as a string. Javascript is not being passed to php.

May 15, 2012 · Pretty logical, your javascript runs at the moment it is outputted in the browser and your form is printed ... after that. You should enclose your code in a window.onload event listener so that it is only executed after the page load completion.

Once a browser loads the page, then all the other magic happens - layout, box model stuff, DOM generation, and many other things, including JavaScript execution. So, you don't "call JavaScript from PHP", you "include a JavaScript function call in your output". There are many ways to do this, but here are a couple. Using just PHP:

PHP has to be parsed on the server. JavaScript is working in the client's browser. Having PHP code in a .js file will not work, except you can tell the server to parse the file you want to have as .js before it sends it to the client. And telling the server is the easiest thing in the world: just add .php at the end of the filename.

Mar 13, 2015 · I'm trying to include JavaScript variables into PHP code as PHP variables, but I'm having problems doing so. When a button is clicked, the following function is called: <script type="text/javas...

php is server side js is client side. You'll need to use ajax or page refresh with gets/posts or try creating a js equivalent function.

Dec 12, 2011 · So there are two ways with interacting with JavaScript with php. Like above, you can generate javascript with php in the same fashion you generate HTML with php. Or you can use an AJAX request from javascript to interact with the server. The server can respond with data and the javascript can receive that and do something with it.

Aug 24, 2010 · How can I add script inside a php code? suppose i want to give an alert for a button click.. how can i do that??