Parsing A Separate Php Array In Javascript

So, as sort of an exercise in learning, I am trying to port a site I was working on for someone, written in PHP, MySQL and CSS, over to Ajax (Specifically, really, just adding Java

Solution 1:

Read up JSON and check out json_encode() for PHP5.

You can convert a PHP array into JSON, this is a string. Then print that string out into your page and use it with your Javascript

<script>var jsonarray = <?phpecho json_encode($array); ?>;
     // now you can use jsonarray in your javascript</script>

This is especially useful when returning data for an Ajax request

<script>var jsonarray = <?phpecho json_encode(array("status" => "success", "message" => "Something was completed OK")); ?>;
</script>