Accessing PHP variable as URL in JQuery Ajax request

Question

I am experiencing some problems with having the Ajax request function/method in JQuery recognizing a PHP-variable from outside the script code. What I am trying to do is using the variable $live_update_url as the url-argument in the Ajax code. The code below is not working, but if I hard code the value of the url there are no problems. So it should be the variable itself that is not accessed. What am I doing wrong here?

function ajaxd() {
 $.ajax({
 url: <?php print($live_update_url);?>,
 type: "get",
 data: {live_time: 'value'}, 
 dataType: "json",
 success: function(data){
 $('#local_time').html(data.live_time);
 }
 });

• Shayan: do this url: "<?php echo $live_update_url;?>" . " is neccesery
• David Rådesjö: Just tried the echo function too and it's not working either for some reason

Answer 1

It looks like you are missing the quotes around the URL value in your JSON.

Make sure that the value returned by the $live_update_url includes quotes or try this:

function ajaxd() {
 $.ajax({
 url: "<?php print($live_update_url);?>",
 type: "get",
 data: {live_time: 'value'}, 
 dataType: "json",
 success: function(data){
 $('#local_time').html(data.live_time);
 }
 });

• David Rådesjö: You're right @Tim, the quotes marks are missing but even with them there it doesn't work..

Answer 2

Found a solution:

Used the following definition of $live_update_url in the PHP code:

$live_update_url = "'http://localhost/projectName/api/time.php?g_id=".$g_id."'";

This string already includes single quotes within the double quotes. Then I used the echo <<<_END-construct and just added the following line in the Ajax request:

url: $live_update_url