Passing PHP variables to jQuery integer - php

Question

basically I know more or less how to do it but would like to know if there is any better way?
I have the following variables in PHP
$day; $month; $year;
The ones above have values from exploding a php date string.
Below is PHP plugin function which states the date for countdown.
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function () {
var austDay = new Date();
austDay = new Date(2013, 12, 22);
$('#defaultCountdown').countdown({until: austDay});
});
</script>
I would like to pass the date day/month/year variables into that function from PHP
how can I do it, when I tried to attach to the javavariable and put that variable in place of the date part, it didnt work.
Thanks for all help

Answer 1

var day = <?php echo $day ?>;
var month = <?php echo $month ?>;
var year = <?php echo $year ?>;
$(function () {
var austDay = new Date();
austDay = new Date( year, month, day );
$('#defaultCountdown').countdown({until: austDay});
});

Answer 2

There's a couple of ways you could skin this.
Fetch the values via $.ajax with php returning the values as a jsonified array (echo json_encode($my_values))
If the page generating the html is a php page then just new Date();
Place the values into hidden form fields anywhere on the page or into data-day, data-month, data-year attributes of a relevant object on the page and fetch the values using jquery
day = $('#hiddenfield_day').val(); //put the var day into the day field of new date, etc
Hope this helps.

Answer 3

Change this line:
austDay = new Date(<?= $year ?>, <?= $month ?> , <?= $day ?>);
That said, keep in mind that Javascript's new Date() month param takes a number in the 0 - 11 range.