On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Jim Giner <jim.giner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> I have this code in my php script. A simple page to test out a function
> that I learned from a book I bought.
>
> <?php
> $root = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
> include($root.'/../php/inc/js/getText.js');
> ?>
>
> </head>
>
>
> The include gets a function I wrote called getText and I have dumped the
> source code of my webpage after I get the error and i see that the include
> did in fact work. There is a function with that name. Here is the header
>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> function getText(e)
> {
> .
>
> .
>
> .}
> </script>
> </head>
>
>
> In the body of my html doc built by this script I have the following lines:
>
> echo 'para contains: ';
> echo getText("p1"); ****
> echo '<br><br>';
> echo 'heaading contains: '.getText("h2");
> ?>
> </body>
>
>
> I get this output on the line containing the ****
>
> para contains:
> Fatal error: Call to undefined function getText() in
> /home/albany/public_html/players_dir/test_gettext.php on line 23
>
>
> As you can see my output starts out as I expect but then I get the
> undefined
> function message.
>
> What am I not doing correctly?
>
>
>
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It looks like you've defined getText() as a JavaScript function, but because
your call to the function is not in quotes, PHP is treating it as a PHP
function. Try something like:
...
echo 'heaading contains: <script>getText("h2")</script>';
...
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