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Jessy Jordan
Jessy Jordan

Reputation: 79

Echo JavaScript result in PHP/HTML source code?

This might be a bit difficult to explain but I will try my best.

I have a page that will display some results from JavaScript (time (HH/MM/SS) to be exact).

I need to display the results of JavaScript which is shown on the page in the source code of that page when viewed from a browser, like Firefox right click -> view source files.

I was thinking about echoing the results but that seemed to be a wrong idea, as echoing will only show the results on the page, and not in the source code of the page.

EDIT:

Okay, if it is impossible to show the results of the JavaScript in the page source, then how does this site display the result of the current time, etc, in the page source? I.e. Wednesday, July 31, 2013, etc, etc can be viewed on the page and on the page source.

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=136

I am using Google Chrome to view the page source.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 474

Answers (2)

Damien Overeem
Damien Overeem

Reputation: 4529

Unfortunately the source code you see when you hit view source, is the response of the http request that was send. Javascript can not alter that source. Any change you would make to the source (DOM) would only be visible in a DOM inspector (ie. ctrl+j in chrome or F12 in IE).

What you want is simply not possible from the javascript side.

Upvotes: 0

MightyPork
MightyPork

Reputation: 18901

You can't alter the source code that comes from server by the means of JavaScript. While javascript can manipulate DOM objects, the text you see when you click "view source" is exactly as it came from the server, and there is no way you could change that.

To view the changes done by your scripts, use Firebug or some similar tool.

Upvotes: 2

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