How to call javascript function from php echo?

Question

Hi all i am trying to call javascript function called loadvideo from php echo and i keep getting errors. I tried two methods

1)first Method i get this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in
echo ("<td><a href=\"javascript:loadVideo('$URL\','image1.jpg')">$item['name']</a> <br/></td>\n");

2)second method i get this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '' (T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE), expecting identifier (T_STRING) or variable (T_VARIABLE) or number (T_NUM_STRING)
echo ("<td><a onClick='loadVideo(" . $URL . ");'>$item['name']</a><br/></td>\n");

could any one show me how to fix this ?Thanks in advance.

javascript function to call:

<script>
 function loadVideo(myFile,myImage) { 
 jwplayer().load([{
 file: myFile,
 image: myImage
 }]);
 jwplayer().play();
 };
</script>

• Praveen Kumar Purushothaman: What is it displaying in the HTML? See view source and tell how it is generating.
• user1788736: Thanks for replies. I get those errors i can't click nothing!

Answer 1

Try this one:

echo ("<td><a href=\"javascript:loadVideo('$URL\','image1.jpg')\">".$item['name']."</a> <br/></td>\n");

Answer 2

Change the second one to:

echo ("<td><a onClick='loadVideo(\"" . $URL . "\");'>$item['name']</a><br/></td>\n");

Answer 3

I have check second method. There you missing quote of php variable.

Here is updated method

First method updated::

echo ("<td><a href=\"javascript:loadVideo('$URL','image1.jpg')\">$item['name']</a> <br/></td>\n");

Second method :

 echo ("<td><a onClick='loadVideo(" . $URL . ");'>".$item['name']."</a><br/></td>\n");

This will work.

Answer 4

change First one with

echo ("<td><a href=\"javascript:loadVideo(".$URL.",'image1.jpg')\">".$item['name']."</a> <br/></td>\n");

Answer 5

There are small bugs in your code.

Change the first one like this:

echo "<td><a href=\"javascript:loadVideo('$URL\','image1.jpg')\">{$item['name']}</a> <br/></td>\n";

And the second one like this:

echo "<td><a onClick='loadVideo(" . $URL . ");'>{$item['name']}</a><br/></td>\n";

Answer 6

First approach:

echo ("<td><a href=\"javascript:loadVideo('".$URL."','image1.jpg');\">".$item['name']."</a> <br/></td>\n");

Second approach:

echo ("<td><a onclick=\"loadVideo('".$URL."','image1.jpg');\">".$item['name']."</a> <br/></td>\n");