Hey, im trying to add a javascript tooltip "window" to a url that is being made in php, and i cant get it working.

This is how i create the url in php.

echo '<a href="' . $url . '">' . $title . '</a>';

And this is what i need to add to the url above:

onMouseover="fixedtooltip('the description', this, event, '150px')"

But where it says the description it should call this:

' . $desc . '

But when i try to put it together, it fails..

Any help is highly appreciated ;)

Can you post the code in its entirety and any error messages?

Regards,

Is it because you're ending the string by mistake? Try escaping the 's in the javascript arguments, like:

echo '<a href="' . $url . '" onmouseover="fixedtooltip(\'' + $desc + '\', this, event, \'150px\')">' . $title . '</a>';

#Dark Light

It just shows a blank page..

This is the script: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex5/fixedtooltip.htm

And the rest of the code i use to grap the "desc"

private function _extract_feed_data()
{
$this->feed_title = $this->xml_obj->channel->title;
foreach ($this->xml_obj->channel->item as $item) {
$this->feed_title = str_replace('&apos;', "'", $item->title); // Some itunes feeds use this.
$this->item_arr[] = array('timestamp' => strtotime($item->pubDate),
'title' => $this->feed_title,
'url' => $item->link,
'desc' => $item->description);
}
}

foreach ($data as $each) {
$date = date('D j M', $each['timestamp']);
$url = $each['url'];
$desc = $each['desc'];
$title = substr($each['title'], 0, 70);
if (strlen($each['title']) > 70) {
$title .= '...';

}

#Xeentech

Coulden get it to work, tryed diffrent options but no luck..

Have you successfully gotten the tooltip to work without the use of your PHP code? For example, directly writing the example code (along with the JavaScript include) to the browser?
<a href="http://www.javascriptkit.com" onMouseover="fixedtooltip('Comprehensive JavaScript tutorials and over 400+ <b>free</b> scripts.', this, event, '150px')" onMouseout="delayhidetip()">JavaScript Kit</a>

If so, can you output your version of the above JavaScript example and all error messages you receive?

Regards,

Yes it works perfect normally..

Okay i got this one to work partly

<a href="' . $url . '" onMouseover="fixedtooltip(\' + $title + \', this, event)">

But when i hover over the link it just shows + $title + like it does not execute the php.

Is it impossible what im trying to do :think:

Assuming you are using an echo() statement to output your tooltip to the browser I would hazard a guess as to why it isn't working is because you're not using the correct quote marks and not using a dot instead of a +.

Try using something like this:
echo '<a href="' . $url . '" onMouseover="fixedtooltip(\'' . $title . '\', this, event)">';

That's very similar to Xeentech's example but it uses the correct dot instead of a +. If that works, replace $title with $desc.

Hope that helps,

That work perfect, thanks :)

but now i see i have another problem with the way im calling the description $desc something not right with that one.

the $title function works perfect in the tooltip window.

the $desc "description" contains html char and other, should i use something like urlencode() ?

EDIT*deffently not urlencode :)

Glad that worked for you.

Can you please post an example of your $desc variable not working, or post a screenshot of the contents of the tooltip to illustrate your meaning? It's not terribly clear what you are trying to achieve and what you already have. :)

Regards,

Yeah its really hard to explain sometimes, when i dont have so much knowledge to php, i know how i want it, but i lack of words :)

Im parsing an RSS script and the $desc (description) of the feed contains html such as &amp; etc..

And when i tryed it with your code it would mess it up because it didden do something to the raw html, know what i mean ?

But now i got it working with this:

<a href="' . $url . '" onMouseover="fixedtooltip(\'' . htmlentities($desc) . '\', this, event)">

This was the solution:

htmlentities($desc)

And it works perfect! i hope its an okay solution to do it like that?

Thanks for your help :)

Regards S.A

So you had HTML code in your variable which was being spat out to the browser without being encoded. htmlentities() is indeed a very valid solution and turns characters such as < into strings like &something; but visually you will still see <. :)

Hope that helps and I'm glad your issues are now solved,

Sounds good, once again thanks :)

Oops just one problem, when the description contains

![CDATA[ The desciption.. ]]

many feeds use this, but it does not work together with htmlentities..

Any ideas?

*EDIT

Hmm seems like its something else, can whitespace, or break cause this problem, when i view source everything seems normal, but the ones that dosent show has a page break in the description.

Try using something like this:

That's very similar to Xeentech's example but it uses the correct dot instead of a +. If that works, replace $title with $desc.

Hope that helps,

D'oh.

Sorry about that e-zone, that's my hands thinking they're writing javascript.