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kws3778
kws3778

Reputation: 317

Accessing a PHP session variable in jQuery file

I have 2 files. A PHP file that sets a session variable and a Jquery(.js) file that needs to access that session variable. But Javascript is client sided and PHP is server sided so how would I be able to create a javascript variable that has the value of that PHP session variable(assuming it's a string).

The following doesn't work(because it has to be in the same page I think):

var php_var = "<?php echo $php_var; ?>";

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2534

Answers (1)

Jay Blanchard
Jay Blanchard

Reputation: 34406

Given a PHP file (foo.php) which contains the following:

<?php
session_start();
$_SESSION['foo'] = 'foo';

echo $_SESSION['foo'];
?>

You could use jQuery to get the value:

$.get('foo.php', function(data) {
    var foo = data; // 'foo' in this case
});

I am using the $.get AJAX shortcut method but you could also go with any of the other jQuery AJAX methods.

Upvotes: 2

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