Question

Where am I going wrong with my programming logic here?

I have 2 php files. File 1 includes File 2. File 1 calls a php function from File 2. Inside the php function there is a bunch of html. The html works perfectly. At the end of the function I have this javascript….

<script type="text/javascript">
alert('hello');
</script>

This javascript isn’t alerting “hello”.
What am I doing wrong?

Thank you in advance.

EDIT: New question because I skrewed the last one up.

In theory would the code below run properly? (yes/no)

<?php function AlertHelp(){ 
    ?><script>
        alert('help');
    </script><?
AlertHelp();
?>

Answer 1

Long shot on a wild guess here with the limited information you gave.

My assumption is that you are not “including” the file via PHP’s include, require, include_once or require_once functions, but are in fact using AJAX to load in the page’s content.

If this is the case, then I shall also assume you’re using innerHTML to put the content on the page.

Suddenly the solution is obvious: <script> tags added by innerHTML are not parsed and run. You could probably do something like this:

// assume `result` is the variable containing the AJAX response and `elem` the element it goes in
elem.innerHTML = result; // this doesn't change
result.match(/<script[^>]*>([\s\S]*?)<\/script>/i,function(m) {eval(m[1]);});

Please note however that eval should be avoided if possible. Consider redesigning your layout to use callbacks instead.