JavaScript array from PHP string
I am developing an application that has over a thousand values. I am trying to create a dynamic array in JavaScript. I am using AJAX to get my values. So I need to create a string from PHP, it should be able to convert from string to array in JavaScript.
How can I create a string in PHP that can be converted to an array in JavaScript?
You are looking for JSON and json_encode () :
$string = json_encode($array);
The content of the string will be an array written in valid javascript.
Use JSON notation to create a string of values and then read it from JS. The easiest way to do it is this:
<script type="text/javascript">
var myPHPData = <?php echo json_encode($myData); ?>;
alert myPHPData; // now you have access to it in JS
</script>
If you are not going to use json you can do something like this.
you can create a string like this in php (split it by any delimiter)
$arr = "1;2;3;4;5;6;7" ;
in javascript you can convert this to array with split function
//make an ajax call and get this string (say str)
arr = str.split(";");
split () returns an array
arr[0] is 1
arr[1] is 2
and so on !!