Question

It turns out this does exactly what I want it to do. But HTML does not replace the function call with a value, which is why I got confused. The correct value IS passed into the array though. I am leaving this question here in case others have the same issue.

I have some javascript:

<script type="text/javascript">
    var $SAT = $SAT || [];
    $SAT.push(['setContent','subtype','sub']);
    $SAT.push(['setUser', '1234']);
</script>

but I want to replace ‘sub’ with a function call to retrieve the value by other means, like so:

<script type="text/javascript">
    function getValue() {
        return 'Some Value';
    }
    var $SAT = $SAT || [];
    $SAT.push(['setContent','subtype',getValue()]);
    $SAT.push(['setUser', '1234']);
</script>

however the resulting code does not replace the getValue() function call with ‘Some Value’ as I would have expected. Does anybody know why, and what I need to do to fix this?

Much appreciated!

Answer 1

Here’s an untested idea:

...
var get_val = function() {
    return "Hi.";
};
$SAT.push(['setContent', 'subtype', get_val()]);
// $SAT now has ['setContent', 'subtype', 'Hi.']
$SAT.push(['setUser', '1234']);
...