title: Assign a jquery value to text inside the same PHP passage
body: <p>This presently resides inside some PHP in the web page source:</p>
  
  <pre><code>echo("&lt;span class=\"somevalue\"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;");
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It works, the value is expressed on the page where the PHP instruction is invoked.  But now--instead of an echo() announcement--how can the value instead be assigned to a text variable I can use elsewhere in the PHP?  Thanks for any help.</p>