I am trying to send a PHP variable to my javascript. In order to do this, I encode the php variable with json, send it to my view with my controller, use it as a value in a hidden html form, and then pull the value with js, using parseJSON to get the final product.
HTML (I'm using laravel, the brackets are equivalent to php tags):
<input type="hidden" id="js-helper-artist-likes" name="js-helper-artist-likes" value="{{$artist_likes}}">
JS
var artist_likes = $('#js-helper-artist-likes').val();
console.log(artist_likes);
In the page source, I see that the value is populating with the json string, but when I print it to the console from my js like the above, all that is showing is: [{
I am not sure why this is.
I want to perform:
var artist_likes_decoded = $.parseJSON(artist_likes);
to get the decoded variable in JS, but this is impossible without the encoded string coming up correctly in the artist_likes variable in js.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thank you.
