Need a little Javascript help!

[{NcsO}ReichstaG]

Hello,
So I need to pass an array from PHP to javascript (nevermind the security risk). I did this using

implode(":#:",$array);

On the javascript side I used

split(":#:");

to turn it back into an array. However, when there is a character such as ' or "" " ', it doesn't work. How do I solve this? I tried encodeURI/decodeURI but it did not seem to work..
Also, do I call encodeURI after constructing the array?
-thanks

 

[{NcsO}ReichstaG]

any help?

 

[Shadow2531]

Instead of having javascript split a string to create an array, you could just echo code that creates the array.

<script>
<?php 
$test = array("'1\\'", '"2"', "'3'");
$str = "var test = new Array(";
for ( $i = 0; $i < count($test); ++$i ) {
    $str .= '"';
    $str .= str_replace( '"', '\\"', str_replace('\\','\\\\', $test[$i] ) );
    $str .= '"';
    if ( $i < count($test) - 1 ) {
        $str .= ", ";
    }
}
$str .= ");\n";
echo $str;?>
for ( var i = 0; i < test.length; ++i ) {
    alert( test[i] );
}
</script>

I don't know php methods well enough, so you'll have to clean that up, but that's the basic idea. Maybe addslashes will work better than the two replace functions.

Basically, that builds the string 'var test = new Array( "element1", "element2", element3" );'

If you do want to encode things and have js split it, then you can do it like this to get the same result.

<script>
<?php 
$test = array( "'1'\\", '"2"', "'3'" );
echo '    var test = decodeURIComponent("' . rawurlencode( implode( ":#:", $test ) ) . "\").split(\":#:\");\n";?>
    for ( var i = 0; i < test.length; ++i ) {
        alert( test[i]);
    }
</script>

 

[{NcsO}ReichstaG]

Thank you for your suggestions!