i need to pass this:

"me","you","us"

into a variable but i only ever get the last value when i read back teh variable.

im using xmlhttprequest to get teh info and i have a php file which echos out the above info. i need to get the whole lot as a string so i can pass it back into the javascript staight into an array

how can i do this?

If the string is the only thing being returned by xmlhttprequest then I'd seperate them by a newline instead of quotes and commas. Then when you get the string back you can break it on newlines using javascript and process them into an array. I don't think xmlhttprequest can return directly to the array in javascript.

how would i break it on newlines using javascript to put them into an array?

var mystring = "The return string from xmlhttprequest";
var myarray = mystring.split("\n");

ive tried putting the values indei [ ] and also using { }
basically at the moment im using:

var imageArray=new Function("return "+xmlhttp.responseText)();

in the php file i have the code being echod out like this:

[{imgs:"blah.jpg,blah2.jpg,3.jpg"}]

and im now getting a full string but i cant get it so i can use each bit as array element. ive tried using split(",") but that doesnt seem to work either

so you want it to echo to the page as

var imagearray = new array("blah.jpg","blah2.jpg","3.jpg");

?

right?

so to do that you would write in php


<?php
$list = "\"blah.jpg\",\"blah2.jpg\",\"3.jpg\"";
?>
<!-- your page in here... etc-->
var imagearray = new array(<?php echo($list);?>)


would produce the result
var imagearray = new array("blah.jpg","blah2.jpg","3.jpg")

thanks for the help in the end i did it by ehcing out as above but then using javascript to get it and the used split to grab each section where there was a , to make the array. works fine :)