Issues with SQL row echoed in to Javascript, error SyntaxError: unterminated string literal

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I am using some facebook post to wall JS, and the information for the post is echoed via php, but i get this error in the console:

SyntaxError: unterminated string literal    

description: 'Well, personal favorite in the following order.<br />

This is the row for the API call

description: '<?php echo $info['definition'] ?>'

and this is $info['definition'] string in the SQL database:

Well, personal favorite in the following order.

1. A stalkers dream come true

2. The reason most work are never done on time.

See what I mean with the examples.

If i use some other string, and type it in directly, it dosnt prompt the script error, how do i escape the string and make it work in the API call?

Any help here?

Teemu
– Teemu

2013-05-28 12:12:41 +00:00
Commented May 28, 2013 at 12:12 — Teemu
– Teemu, Commented May 28, 2013 at 12:12
You have to remove all white spaces from the string

Manish Jangir
– Manish Jangir

2013-05-28 12:17:19 +00:00
Commented May 28, 2013 at 12:17 — Manish Jangir
– Manish Jangir, Commented May 28, 2013 at 12:17

web-nomad · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-28 12:57:49Z

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Try replacing the following line:

description: '<?php echo $info['definition'] ?>'

with this:

description: "<?php echo preg_replace( '~[\r\n]*~', '', $info['definition'] );?>"

edited May 28, 2013 at 12:57

answered May 28, 2013 at 12:18

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John DOe Over a year ago

error changed to: description: "Well, personal favorite in the following order.<br />

web-nomad Over a year ago

Can you please show what are you getting in your html. That would help in debugging. Can you post it to a fiddle so that we could test with it.

John DOe Over a year ago

Dont really know how to pass the exact situation to a fiddle, considering the SQL, but i can give you the page of the error funkydictionary.com/words/?w=facebook%3D1#

web-nomad Over a year ago

Sorry, can you remove the ; from the end of the description node...i didn't know it was part of an object.

John DOe Over a year ago

I removed the ; and the issue persists :(

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Manish Jangir · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-28 12:18:05Z

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You have to remove all white spaces from the string. Javascript considers all new lines as a new statement.

answered May 28, 2013 at 12:18

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tkone Over a year ago

FYI white space would include the literal [space], so you don't want to remove whitespace, you want to remove line breaks...

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