Posted by Dan Bee on 10/02/06 17:41

Thanks all,

The idiotic error I made is that in the outputted array, I did not put
quotation marks around the strings. Doh.



Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> dan... wrote:
> > OK, I've basically copied this code ad verbatim from a book to
> > test...what I have is an index.html page that refers to "map_data.php"
> > and "map_functions.js"...
> >
> > map_data.php draws some coordinates from a database and outputs them
> > into an array called markers. However, when I load up the index.html
> > page, it says "markers" is undefined...
> >
> > Here's the code in map_data.php:
> >
> > var markers = [
> > <?php while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)): ?>
> > <?= $joiner ?>
> > {
> > 'latitude': <?= $row['latitude'] ?>,
> > 'longitude': <?= $row['longitude'] ?>,
> > 'lawyer': <?= $row['lawyer']?>,
> > 'city': <?= $row['city']?>,
> > 'business_name': '<?= addslashes($row['business_name'])?>',
> > 'address': '<?= addslashes($row['address'])?>'
> > }
> > <?
> > $joiner = ',';
> > ?>
> > <?php endwhile; ?>
> > ];
> >
> > I can't get anything in the map_functions.js to read this markers
> > array, even if it's a simple alert call like
> > "alert(markers[3].longitude"...
> >
>
> I suspect you have short tags disabled in your php.ini file.
>
> Instead of '<?= ' you should use '<?php echo '.
>
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