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Asked: 2026-06-04T10:24:18+00:00

I have a php page on which I show a jQuery alert when a

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I have a php page on which I show a jQuery alert when a user adds products to their cart. The message displayed in the alert is a variable from a php page where all language elements are stored.

$cartaddeditem='The product was added to your cart.\r\n You can view your <a href=\'cart.php?action=show\'>shopping cart</a> or click OK to continue shopping';

Then, on the page:

<body onload="jAlert('success', '<?=$cartaddeditem?>', '<?=$minicart?>');" <? } >

The problem is that the alert fails to fire because of the quotes in the $cartaddeditem var and I’m getting an error in firebug that says:

Error: missing ) after argument list
Line: 1, Column: 22
Source Code:
jAlert('success', The product was added to your cart.\r\n You can view your <a href=\

How do I escape the quote in the message string for jQuery? I tried several escaping types with double and single quotes, one or two backslashes but nothing worked.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try using double quotes to quote your HTML attributes.

    $cartaddeditem = 'The product was added to your cart.\r\n You can view your <a href="cart.php?action=show">shopping cart</a> or click OK to continue shopping';

    May I also suggest not adding onload attributes and using $(document).ready( instead?

    $(function(){
    jAlert('success', '<?=$cartaddeditem?>', '<?=$minicart?>');
});

    UPDATE:
    You can also use json_encode to make sure that quotes don’t clash. json_encode works on strings too, it outputs a a string surrounded by double quotes (so don’t add quotes around the parameter).

    $(function(){
    jAlert('success', <?=json_encode($cartaddeditem)?>, <?=json_encode($minicart)?>);
});
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