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I need some help.

I have this JavaScript on site that renders a ticker with a value (progressive).

<script src='http://www.externalsite.com/modules/common/getProgBlock.php?progid=1&cbox=all&showlogo=no&currency=USD'></script>

Its rendering is this:

$12,546.07

I tried to parse this JS file:

<?php 
$html_data =  file_get_contents('http://www.externalsite.com/modules/common/getProgBlock.php?progid=1&cbox=all&showlogo=no&currency=USD', 'r');

echo $html_data;

?>

and I get this all JS parameters.

EDIT This is the parsed JS:

var scripts = document.getElementsByTagName('script');
var currentScript = scripts[scripts.length - 1];
currentScript.id = ((currentScript.id.length === 0) ? "mgsProgressiveTickerControlScript" : currentScript.id);

function cleanQueryString(querystring) {
    querystring = querystring.replace(/^[^\?]+\??/, '');
    querystring = querystring.replace('fontfamily', 'font-family').replace('fontsize', 'font-size').replace('fontcolor', 'font-color');
    querystring = querystring.replace('showlogo=yes', 'showlogo=true').replace('showlogo=no', 'showlogo=false');
    querystring = querystring.replace('showcasino=yes', 'showcasino=true').replace('showcasino=no', 'showcasino=false');
    querystring = querystring.replace('showonlycasino=yes', 'showonlycasino=true').replace('showonlycasino=no', 'showonlycasino=false');
    return querystring.toLowerCase();
}
var lowerQueryString = cleanQueryString(currentScript.src);

function parseQueryString(queryString) {
    var queryStringParams = {};
    if(!queryString) {
        return "{}";
    }
    var queryStringPairs = queryString.split(/[;&]/);
    for(var i = 0; i0) {
        txt += " ";
    }
    txt += data[i];
}
return txt;
}
renderTicker = new function () {
    this.init = function (lowerQueryString) {
        document.write("");
        var newScript = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(document.createElement('script'));
        newScript.id = "mgsProgressiveTickerAsmxScript";
        newScript.setAttribute("type", "text/javascript");
        newScript.src = ((window.location.protocol == 'https:') ? "https://" : "http://") + "www.externalsite.co.uk/ProgressiveTickers/WebServiceProgressiveTicker.asmx/renderTicker?form=json&booIsSecure=" + ((window.location.protocol == 'https:') ? true : false) + "&strProgId=" + getParam('progid', 'jackpot') + "&booShowLogo=" + getParam('showlogo', true) + "&booShowCasino=" + getParam('showcasino', false) + "&booShowOnlyCasino=" + getParam('showonlycasino', false) + "&strFontFamily=" + getParam('font-family', null) + "&intFontSize=" + getParam('font-size', 0) + "&strFontColor=" + getParam('font-color', null) + "&strCurrId=" + getParam('currency', null);
        this.parseResult = function (data, strProgId, strCurrId, booShowOnlyCasino) {
            document.getElementById("progressiveTicker" + strProgId).innerHTML = cleanHTML(data);
            if((document.getElementById("progressiveTicker" + strProgId).innerHTML.length > 0) && (booShowOnlyCasino == 'false')) {
                var scrollScript = document.createElement('script');
                scrollScript.id = "mgsProgressiveTickerScriptScroll";
                scrollScript.setAttribute("type", "text/javascript");
                scrollScript.src = ((window.location.protocol == 'https:') ? "https://" : "http://") + "www.externalsite.co.uk/ProgressiveTickers/WebServiceProgressiveTickerScriptScroll.asmx/renderScript?form=json&strProgId=" + strProgId + "&strCurrId=" + strCurrId;
                document.getElementById("progressiveTicker" + strProgId).parentNode.insertBefore(scrollScript, document.getElementById("progressiveTicker" + strProgId).nextSibling);
            }
        };
    };
};
var mgsProgressiveTickerSharedFunctions = document.getElementById('mgsProgressiveTickerSharedFunctions');
if(mgsProgressiveTickerSharedFunctions === null) {
    var INSERTmgsProgressiveTickerSharedFunctions = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(document.createElement('script'));
    INSERTmgsProgressiveTickerSharedFunctions.id = "mgsProgressiveTickerSharedFunctions";
    INSERTmgsProgressiveTickerSharedFunctions.src = ((window.location.protocol == 'https:') ? "https://" : "http://") + "www.externalsite.co.uk/modules/common/sharedfunctions.php";
}
document.getElementById(currentScript.id).parentNode.removeChild(document.getElementById(currentScript.id));
renderTicker.init(lowerQueryString);

I need to pass the "progressive value" into a PHP variable to store the same value into a MySql database (I also have a script that can do this).

How can I pass this "value" into a PHP variable? What's the best approach? Please, help. I'm a totally noob in PHP!

Thanks in advance to all!

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That external site's script could be doing anything. Could you show a minimal version of that script? – Matt Ball Jan 21 at 14:51
What exactly is the content of the script? What does echo $html_data print? – Rocket Hazmat Jan 21 at 14:54
JavaScript runs in the browser. Loading a JS file in PHP isn't going to run it. It's just going to return you its source. – Rocket Hazmat Jan 21 at 14:58
@MattBall Yes, sorry. Just added the parsed JS file. Thanks for comment! – Splugged Jan 21 at 15:00
possible duplicate of How to pass JavaScript variables to PHP? – berkes Jan 21 at 17:01

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2 Answers

up vote 0 down vote

The quickest way to do this would be using jQUery AJAX. Something like this should do the trick:

$.ajax({
    type: POST,
    url: file/location/ajax.php,
    data: { var: variable_to_be_passed }
});

Then in file/location/ajax.php you want:

$var = isset($_POST['var']) ? $_POST['var'] : FALSE;
do_something_with_var...
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up vote 0 down vote

You need to pass the value using AJAX. Here's the manual. Or, you can also just submit the values using submit method.

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Yes, I tried the submit method but to store the value in database I need to render the page first. Thanks for your comment! – Splugged Jan 21 at 15:02

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