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Chris
Chris

Reputation: 4370

Unexpected token ILLEGAL

var url = "C:\xampp\htdocs\wcf2\wcf/attachments/5d/18-5dffacdfe6d2cf1db8dfabbb5b53ae8dc65bd325";

results in Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL. Is there any way to fix it in javascript or do I need to escape it before in PHP?

Edit: My script looks like this:

<script>
  window.onload = function() {
    thingiurlbase = "{@$__wcf->getPath('td')}js";
    thingiview = new Thingiview("viewer");
    thingiview.setObjectColor('#C0D8F0');

    thingiview.initScene();
    var url = "C:\\xampp\htdocs\\wcf2\\wcf/attachments/5d/18-5dffacdfe6d2cf1db8dfabbb5b53ae8dc65bd325";
    thingiview.loadSTL(url); 
    thingiview.setRotation(false);
  }
</script>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 920

Answers (2)

James Lim
James Lim

Reputation: 13054

You need to escape backslashes.

var url = "C:\\xampp\\htdocs\\wcf2\\wcf/attachments/5d/18-5dffacdfe6d2cf1db8dfabbb5b53ae8dc65bd325";

If the string is printed from PHP, you can use addslashes to do the work for you.

$test = 'C:\xampp\htdocs\wcf2\wcf/attachments/5d/18-...';
echo $test . "\n";
echo addslashes($test);

>> C:\xampp\htdocs\wcf2\wcf/attachments/5d/18-...
>> C:\\xampp\\htdocs\\wcf2\\wcf/attachments/5d/18-...

Side Note

By the way, two things are incorrect with your approach:

  1. The slashes in your string should all point the same way. If you want it to be used as a URL, use forward slashes e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/posts/17775495

  2. If you want to give the browser a URL that it can use to access some resource on your server, this URL cannot be a file path (such as C:\xampp\htdocs\....) Instead, it has to be either relative to your site root, or an absolute URL (such as http://dropbox.com/my/file.pdf). Don't forget that a web user can only access files on your server through the web server.

Upvotes: 1

Ted Hopp
Ted Hopp

Reputation: 234795

You need to escape the backslash characters.

var url = "C:\\xampp\\htdocs\\wcf2\\wcf/attachments/5d/18-5dffacdfe6d2cf1db8dfabbb5b53ae8dc65bd325";

Otherwise, JavaScript tries to interpret \x, \h, and \w as escaped special characters.

In this particular case, though, it looks like you could just replace the \ with / instead:

var url = "C:/xampp/htdocs/wcf2/wcf/attachments/5d/18-5dffacdfe6d2cf1db8dfabbb5b53ae8dc65bd325";

Upvotes: 2

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