Trouble with PHP and JS

Here's my problem, I'm trying to make a php variable output into the javascript file. Could I do something like this?

<script type="text/javascript" ... >
/* ... */
var <?=$text; ?>

/* ... */

Code (markup):

Will that work?

 

sure. just name the script file.js.php is what i normally do.
and then the first line:

<? header('content-type: text/javascript'); ?>

PHP:

 

So can I use a loop to echo javascript data?


Now how do I go about using variables? Do I escape the php and put JS there?
I'm sorry, but this makes my life so much easier.

edit and off topic: you must be some super knowledge filled poster. You joined two months ago and have 200 more posts than me! Wow.

 

yes, you can echo data from php into a js script

ex:

You can't walk through PHP arrays or objects in JS code. You can join arrays into strings and use them in Js code :

last alert will display 1,2,3

 

Thanks bro. Worked perfectly.

 

glad to help

 

What do you mean "You can't walk through PHP arrays or objects in JS code"

Couldn't I just loop through an array using document.write, or something, for each item?