unterminated string literal in text area

[awakener1986]

Hi, im having a little trouble with this hope someone might be able to help me with it.

well first of, i have two text area. one in the parent window the other is in the child window. what i am trying to do is that whenever i saved the values in the child window text area, it would populate in the parent window.

this is the javascript which is called with php ($tmp_desc is a php variable), that i have implemented in the child window:-

echo "<script defer>
o = window.opener.getElement('case_newdeflens_FX_CASE_DESCRIPTION');
        if (o) o.value = '$tmp_desc'
        setTimeout('window.close()', 500);
</script>"; 

it seems that when i leave spaces in the text area i will hit the 'unterminated string lateral' error.

Error: unterminated string literal
Source File: http://192.1.7.3/NewCase/_case_descr...ensBM_f1462b72
Line: 21, Column: 19
Source Code:
if (o) o.value = 'DHLDJFL;KFJS;LF<br />

is there a workaround to this problem ? thanks

[jscheuer1]

Really more of a PHP than javascript question, instead of (more like what you must have):

<?php
//some preliminary stuff
echo "<script defer> 
o = window.opener.getElement('case_newdeflens_FX_CASE_DESCRIPTION'); 
        if (o) o.value = '$tmp_desc' 
        setTimeout('window.close()', 500); 
</script>";
//some later stuff perhaps
?>

Try:

<?php
//some preliminary stuff
?>
<script defer> 
o = window.opener.getElement('case_newdeflens_FX_CASE_DESCRIPTION'); 
        if (o) o.value = '<?php echo $tmp_desc; ?>' 
        setTimeout('window.close()', 500); 
</script>
<?php
//some later stuff perhaps
?>

Spaces should be fine, but you're going to need to escape single quotes in the $tmp_desc variable.