Passing variable values from Php to Javascript
<pre><code> &lt;!DOCTYPE HTML&gt;
&lt;html&gt;
    &lt;head&gt;
        &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;
        &lt;title&gt;Highcharts Example&lt;/title&gt;
        &lt;script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
        &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
$(function () {
    var newanswer = &lt;?php echo"$newanswer"; ?&gt;
    var chart;
    $(document).ready(function() {
        chart = new Highcharts.Chart({
            chart: {
                renderTo: 'container',
                type: 'column'
            },
            title: {
                text: 'Monthly Progress Reports'
            },
            subtitle: {
                text: 'Source: Sales Department'
            },
            xAxis: {
                categories: [
                    'Jan',
                    'Feb',
                    'Mar',
                    'Apr',
                    'May',
                    'Jun',
                    'Jul',
                    'Aug',
                    'Sep',
                    'Oct',
                    'Nov',
                    'Dec'
                ]
            },
            yAxis: {
                min: 0,
                title: {
                    text: 'Range'
                }
            },
            legend: {
                layout: 'vertical',
                backgroundColor: '#FFFFFF',
                align: 'left',
                verticalAlign: 'top',
                x: 100,
                y: 70,
                floating: true,
                shadow: true
            },
            tooltip: {
                formatter: function() {
                    return ''+
                        this.x +': '+ this.y +' Star';
                }
            },
            plotOptions: {
                column: {
                    pointPadding: 0.2,
                    borderWidth: 0
                }
            },
                series: [{
                name: '5 Star', //Blue
                data: [newanswer, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 95, 10, 20]

            }, {
                name: '4 Star', //Red
                 data: [4, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 95, 10, 20]

            }, {
                name: '3 Star', // Green
                data: [3, 38.8, 39.3, 41.4, 47.0, 48.3, 59.0, 59.6, 52.4, 65.2, 59.3, 51.2]

            }, {
                name: '2 Star', //violet
                data: [2, 33.2, 34.5, 39.7, 52.6, 75.5, 57.4, 60.4, 47.6, 39.1, 46.8, 51.1]

            }, {
                name: '1 Star', //lightblue
                data: [1, 33.2, 34.5, 39.7, 52.6, 75.5, 57.4, 60.4, 47.6, 39.1, 46.8, 51.1]

            }]
        });
    });

});
        &lt;/script&gt;
    &lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
&lt;script src="js/highcharts.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;script src="js/exporting.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;div id="container" style="min-width: 400px; height: 400px; margin: 0 auto"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;?php
$newanswer = 50;
?&gt;

&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;
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<p>is this possible to pass a php value to a javascript? i need to do it in order to put the value of the query of mysql into the graph and the graph is coded by java script. thx</p>

<p>the problem is this line</p>

<pre><code>&lt;?php $newanswer = 50; ?&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>cant pass the value on this line:</p>

<pre><code> var newanswer = &lt;?php echo"$newanswer"; ?&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>so that the <strong>50</strong> value dont show in this line: </p>

<pre><code> data: [newanswer, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 95, 10, 20]
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