将PHP变量作为字符串传递给javascript

Question

Somehow my php function, which creates a button, which calls a javascript function, does not pass the php variables as strings.

function addTableEntry($id, $name)
{
    echo('<tr>
              <td>'.$id.'</td>
              <td>'.$name.'</td>
              <td><a href="#groups" onClick="activateGroupSettingsOverlay('.$id.','.$name.')">Manage group</a>
              </tr>');
}

addTableEntry(1,"livingroom");

The function activateGroupSettingsOverlay() always gets called with (1, livingroom) whenever it is clicked and i get an error "livingroom is undefined".

How can i pass $name as a String? I tried to put quotes around it (like this: '.$id.',"'.$name.'", but that did not work.

Answer 1

You have to "escape" quotes inside a string if you want them to persist:

echo '..... onClick="activateGroupSettingsOverlay('.$id.',\''.$name.'\')"....'

The important thing are the backslashes before the (single) quotes.