Pass PHP array to Javascript variable

Question

php file

$querySelectWordFilter = "SELECT * FROM badwordfilter";
 $stmtSelectWordFilter = $conn->prepare($querySelectWordFilter);
 $stmtSelectWordFilter->execute();
 while($rowSelectWordFilter = $stmtSelectWordFilter->fetch()){
 $Array[] = $rowSelectWordFilter["filterWord"];
 }
 foreach($Array as $val){
 echo $val;
 }

Javascript file

<script>
 var filter = ['ass', 'evil','ugly'];
</script>

Question : Firstly,I select all the value from database and store it into array.But how can i pass the PHP array variable into JavaScript filter variable?

• Saty: Just use var filter = <?php echo json_encode($Array); ?>;

Answer 1

No need of foreach loop just create your array

while($rowSelectWordFilter = $stmtSelectWordFilter->fetch()){
 $Array[] = $rowSelectWordFilter["filterWord"];
 }

And in JavaScript use json_encode as

<script>
var filter = <?php echo json_encode($Array); ?>;
</script>