[development] php and js in a programmatic block

[jeff at ayendesigns.com]

Ah, gotcha. Not sure this is more intuitive than the other way, but if 
it's common practice then so be it :)
Thanks!

On 11/28/2010 11:02 AM, Steve Ringwood wrote:
> Jeff
>
>     You still want to drupal_add_js(),   but instead of one call you 
> want two.
>
>     The first is to add your mymodule.js
>
>     The second is to do something like
>
>   $settings = array(
>     'MyModule' => array(
>         'value1' => 'some value',
>         'value2' => 'some other value'
>      )
>   );
>
>   drupal_add_js( $settings, 'setting' );
>
>   You also need to modify mymodule.js to use the values something like
>
>         var settings = Drupal.settings.MyModule;
>         // Now you can use
>        // settings.value1 and settings.value2
>
>    (of course you need to change MyModule to your actual module name 
> and I would suggest more meaningful names than value1 and value2)
>
> Nevets
>
>
> On 11/28/2010 9:43 AM, jeff at ayendesigns.com wrote:
>> Nothing confuses me faster than mixing php and js (and especially 
>> escaping the quotes). In this case, my confusion is the concept and 
>> not the gobblygook.
>>
>>
>> I have a module invoking hook_block, and a function that creates and 
>> returns the block content. In this function I invoke drupal_add_js to 
>> gather the contents of ./mymodule.js
>>
>>
>> So far so good. However, the js needs to be dynamic...there are two 
>> function values that need to be embedded in it. I'm thinking that 
>> with this being the case, drupal_add_js might not be the way to go 
>> (back to escaping quotes), but wanted to poll first for best 
>> practice, since I'll be contributing this module.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>
>
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