JavaScript to PHP function

Question

newbie question alert! :)

I am trying to convert this JavaScript that is loaded on the page to a PHP script as in IE 8 the values are not loaded.

This is the part of .js that I want to convert

 $(document).ready(function() { 
 var user = loadCurrentUser();
 var user_id = user['user_id'];
 $('form[name="updateAccount"] input[name="email"]').val(user['email']);

I tired several versions of php code but nothing seems to be working.

Any help would be highly appreciated!

• tadman: You want to manipulate the DOM in PHP? That's really not going to work.
• Mario A: Maybe it would be possible to set the value of the email input to a certain users email using php. To find that out we should know what the loadCurrentUser() function does. But anyway, I'm sure the smarter way is to solve the IE8 issue.
• ctwheels: Why not try using AJAX? You can use JavaScript to call a PHP function via AJAX

Answer 1

You cannot simply convert this JS snippet to PHP. Instead, you'll need to debug why this isn't working in IE8. I suspect it has something to do with the loadCurrentUser() function.