Question

This string has a php echo. I must have messed something up because it seems to cause a JS error. I have tried everything I can think of to get this to work. If I take the php string out everything works. AND if I take the PHP select and place it outside the jquery string that works. I guess I just need some help combining the PHP string and the JS. (ignore the string spacing I only did that so that it is easier to read)

Thanks for any help.

$("#billTasks").find('tr').append('
<td>
<select class="billOptions">
        <option class="fixedRate" onclick="fixedOption(this)">Bill Fixed Rate</option>
        <option class="hourly"  onclick="hourlyOption(this)">Bill Hourly</option>
</select> 
        <input type="text" name="fixedRate" placeholder="Rate" class="fieldWidth100 rate"/>
<select>
<?php while($row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result)){echo "<option value=\'.$row[schedule].\'> $row[schedule] </option>\n";}?>
</select>
</td>');

Answer 1

You have a couple issues with this line:

echo "<option value=\'.$row[schedule].\'> $row[schedule] </option>\n";

The first is the .‘s You are not using string concatenation so you don’t want dots around your variable. Since it is a complex variable your code would be better like {$row[schedule]}.

Secondly you need to put quotes around the string schedule otherwise PHP searches for a constant with that name before throwing a warning and using it as a string. So the line will end up looking like:

echo "<option value=\'{$row['schedule']}\'>{$row['schedule']}</option>\n";

Javascript also doesn’t like newline characters in a string unless the are written literately \n. Meaning that you should change your \n to \\n, so that php outputs \n instead of an actual newline character:

echo "<option value=\'{$row['schedule']}\'>{$row['schedule']}</option>\\n";

Or use PHP single quotes and do:

echo '<option value="'.$row['schedule'].'">'.$row['schedule'].'</option>\n';