Question

My code looks like this:

ORIGINAL

var key_word = {'dentists'};

var pageOptions = { 
  'query': 'cars',
  'hl': 'en'
};

I want to insert the variable ‘key_word’ into where it says cars:

NEW CODE – entire code

<div id="adcontainer1"></div>
<script src="http://www.google.com/adsense/search/ads.js" type="text/javascript"></script> 
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"> 
var key_word = "dentists";

var pageOptions = { 
  'pubId': 'pub-999999999999999',
  'query': function(){ return key_word; },
  'hl': 'en'
};

var adblock1 = { 
  'container': 'adcontainer1',
  'number': '1',
  'width': '700px',
  'lines': '1',
  'colorBackground': 'FBFFDB'
};

new google.ads.search.Ads(pageOptions, adblock1);
</script>

From the resulting ad, it appears dentists is not being passed correctly. Instead the ad is running the text ‘key word’ instead of the variable key_word, which is the text ‘dentists’. Do I have a syntax problem here?

Answer 1

var key_word = "dentists"
var pageOptions = { 
    'query': function(){ return key_word; },
    'hl': 'en'
};

I think you want something like this.

adblock1.key_word = pageOptions.query();