Yup, exactly right - It turned out to be annoyingly simple...

<script src="..../something.php"></script>

and in the PHP file, just have echo "document.write()";

sorted, thanks for your help!


On Aug 25, 4:08 am, "Brian Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> well first off google can have their web server set up to process js files
> as php, asp, html, txt, etc etc it's a standard feature of apache
>
> secondly go tohttp://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js
>
> and you should get the idea, they feed javascript to the browser.
>
> Your php will have to feed javascript to their browser.
>
> On 8/24/07, junkmate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Yer it turned out to be the way I had my .htaccess file set up was
> > preventing me from seeing what was actually wrong...
>
> > Turns out you cant do XMLHttpRequest between different domains
> > anyway... thats what was giving the errors, saying permission
> > denied... (but I have my site set up so all invalid requests return an
> > error page... which was what was being returned blah blah blah...)
>
> > So I'm back to square one...
> > How do the likes of Google Adsense and Twitter etc. include data with
> > only Javascript snippets like this:
> > <script type="text/javascript">var id="29x566c38e9bf";</script>
> > <script type="text/javascript" src="grabData.js"></script>
>
> > I want that script, running on a clients domain/website, to grab Data
> > from my SQL database which can be found using the ID supplied... and
> > then return a bunch of data from the database to the clients website,
> > in place of the javascript tags (above)
>
> > how?! :D
>
> > On Aug 25, 3:22 am, "Brian Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > what browser are you using?
>
> > > all i get back from the code is boo
>
> > > also: you are missing a " in http.open("GET", "grabData.php, true);
>
> > > here's the working examplehttp://sudev.bruuuuuce.com/hrmtest.htm
>
> > > On 8/24/07, junkmate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > I run the following Javascript code, which calls a PHP file
> > > > grabData.php, which contains ONLY <?php echo "boo"; ?> and the alert
> > > > returned has an entire HTML structure with "boo" in the middle of
> > > > it... Heres the code im using:
>
> > > > if (navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer") {
> > > >     http = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
> > > > } else {
> > > >     http = new XMLHttpRequest();
> > > > }
>
> > > > http.abort();
> > > > http.open("GET", "grabData.php, true);
> > > > http.onreadystatechange=function() {
> > > >     if(http.readyState == 4) {
> > > >         alert(http.responseText);
> > > >     }
> > > > }
> > > > http.send(null);
>
> > > > On Aug 25, 2:13 am, "Brian Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > uhm, could it be that you are also echoing the header files that you
> > are
> > > > > including in your php?
>
> > > > > write a php file that has
>
> > > > > <?  echo "boo" ?>
>
> > > > > and call it with your ajax and all you should get is boo
>
> > > > > On 8/24/07, junkmate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > > > I want my AJAX responseText to return "ONLY" the data that I echo
> > with
> > > > > > PHP...
> > > > > > at the moment it is returning full HTML pages, which I dont want
> > and
> > > > > > is making things impossible...
>
> > > > > > How can I strip these HTML tags out and leave just my data?


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