It is good idea not to hardcode anything that may change in javascript. For example I want to have url generated by php.
I may write
echo "
<script ...>
var anUrl = $urlFromPHP;
</script>";
and then:
<script ...>
// some code
$.ajax({ url: anUrl ... });
</script>";
Is there any better way to do it? Does anybody know if there is any built-in mechanism in yii framework?
I personally like the conversion between php variables (arrays,...) to javascript object by json_encode. It is easy to use for complex arrays for example.
<?php
// From manual:
$arr = array ('a'=>1,'b'=>2,'c'=>3,'d'=>4,'e'=>5);
echo json_encode($arr);
?>
// results
{"a":1,"b":2,"c":3,"d":4,"e":5}
That's a perfectly good way to do it. Although you'll probably need quotes around the javascript url string:
var anUrl = '$urlFromPHP';
