[thelist] External Javascript files + PHP

[Joe Crawford]

Andrew Forsberg wrote:

> "Lindsay Evans" rightly asked:
>> do you have a url we could look at?
> 
> Funny thing is, when I tried it out in isolation so I could give you
> an url, everything worked fine. It's just when I dump this
> particular, much larger, script into an external file that
> something's going wrong -- and it's hard to work out quite what's
> choking it because the error message just relates to the <script
> type="text/javascript" src="blah.php"> line. Weird that it works
> inline, but not externally. If I have time I'll try a process of
> elimination.

Based on your problem, I think you need to add a Content-Type header so that
the browser respects it as a .js file.

<? Header('Content-Type: text/javascript')?> should do it.

Point this:
http://www.delorie.com/web/headers.html

At your js file - I'd bet a quarter that it's delivering text/html rather
than what you /want/ it to do, which is text/javascript.

Here's a css file off evolt, which delivers up text/css:
http://www.delorie.com/web/headers.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fevolt.org%2Fevolt%2F
isaac.css

HTH,
    - Joe
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