load() isn't working within PHP echo - php

Question

I have the following snippet on my index page so that all links clicked on within the navbar will load within the 'content' div:
$(document).ready(function()
{
$("a.link").click(function() {
return false;
});
$("#navbar a").click(function(){
var a_href = $(this).attr('href');
$("#content").load(a_href);
});
});
This snippet works fine... But upon loading the page, I check with PHP to see if the index page has an argument to direct it to a specific page, which doesn't seem to work:
<?php
if(array_key_exists('page',$_GET)){
echo "<script>$('#content').load('" . $_GET['page'] . "', 'content')</script>";
} else {
echo "<script>$('#content').load('home.php')</script>";
}
?>
It may be a simple case of "it's staring you in the face but you've been looking at it for too long", but I can't seem to get the PHP snippet to work.
EDIT: I wrapped it in document.ready(), and it doesn't seem to have had an effect:
echo "
<script>
$(document).ready(function()
{
$('#content').load('home.php');
});
</script>";

Answer 1

Try this
<?php
echo "<script>"
echo "$(document).ready(function () {";
if(array_key_exists('page',$_GET)){
echo "$('#content').load('" . $_GET['page'] . "', 'content');";
} else {
echo "$('#content').load('home.php');";
}
echo "});";
echo "</script>";
?>