Reputation:
For small amounts of textual info ( Control Messages ) I send what I call bullets (Same syntax as HTML comments ) along with my page during ajax calls. For example
<!--Control Message--><html> all my page here</html>
I then parse the "Bullet" out before rendering the page...even though I don't really have to.
For more data, say 5 variables, I plan on json_encoding it...and sending it with the page as well.
How are others demarcating and extracting the structured data / json strings from html. I could just put it in a "bullet" like below and extract it out...but my guess is there is a more "proper" way to do this.
<!--json string here--><html> all my page here</html>
Upvotes: 0
Views: 1433
Reputation: 5168
If the data is contextual with the HTML, it would be good to send them as data tags within the HTML?
<html data-value="{name:value}">
<body>
<div data-div="{name:value}">
</body>
</html>
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 119847
If you are passing this via AJAX, just embed the HTML in the JSON and parse that JSON as a whole:
{
"html":"<html>...</html>",
"other_data":...,
"some_more_data":...
}
//access it later:
data.html
data.other_data
data.some_more_data
If this data loaded with the page, store the data in a variable instead:
<html>
<head>
<script>
var data = <?= json_encode($data) ?>;
Upvotes: 5