Why cant i combine javascript and php in my code?
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  <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
  <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/168214/pass-a-php-string-to-a-javascript-variable-and-escape-newlines">Pass a PHP string to a Javascript variable (and escape newlines)</a>  </p>
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<p>I am quite new to the concepts of Javascript/jQuery and PHP. I have been using PHP implemented in Appserv for two weeks now to get data from a modbus device and store it in a csv file. Now i want to plot the data using jQplot. I am trying to write a simple program to first see if i can implement php and javascript code together in html. This is a code that i have written in html and uses both javascript and php. </p>

<pre><code>&lt;!doctype html&gt;
&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;title&gt;Demo&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;

&lt;body&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;This is a script&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
    var out = &lt;?php echo "Hello"?&gt;;
    //var out = "Hello"
    document.write(out);
&lt;/script&gt;

&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>When i run this code in the browser ( I use google chrome with windows 7) I only get the heading "This is a script". However if i remove the line with the php code and uncomment the next line</p>

<pre><code>var out = "Hello";
</code></pre>

<p>then the code prints the output with "Hello" like its supposed to. Why is this?</p>
