Question

Is it possible to add php to a jquery function? On ajax success I’m displaying some text in a div using the .text() function.

success: function(html) {
  msg_each.nextAll('.msg_box:first').text('show some text...').fadeIn(200);
}

Via jquery, I would also like to use a WordPress function:

<?php comments_popup_link('Post Comment', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?> 

How can I add that to the .text() function?

Answer 1

PHP runs on the server. JavaScript runs in the browser. You need to use Ajax (something like $.get() to perform an HTTP get on a resource on your server. This will return (probably) HTML or plain text that you can pass into your .text() call.

Basic skellington

success: function (html) {
    $.get('url/to/page.php', function (data) {
        msg_each.nextAll('.msg_box:first').text(data).fadeIn(200);  
    });              
}

Since you’re already making an Ajax call, however, you might just be able to modify the server-side page you’re querying to include the additional HTML (generated by the comments_popup_link() call) so you don’t have to make an additional XHR.