Inserting php into js file

Question

I have a loading gif for the gallery on my website. In my js file I have this code to show the loader:

image: $(\"\"),         


        

Answer 1

A cleaner technique for passing PHP data to JavaScript is to store the data in data attributes which you can then access via JavaScript. As a simple example:

You can access that in jQuery like:

var home = $('body').attr('data-home-url');

FYI you can use json_encode to convert PHP object/arrays into a JSON objects which you can read via $.parseJSON or JSON.parse. WP's wp_localize_script can actually do this for you, but note that in that case it'll expose the converted data to the window.