.innerHTML to echo PHP variable

Question

When i try to set my <span> to PHP variable, it sends it commented. The file is saved as .php and is served by apache2.4 from localhost

document.getElementById('displayName').innerHTML = " <?php echo $_SESSION['user']; ?>";

This is what i see in browser when inspecting:

<!--?php echo $_SESSION['user']; ?-->

Take a look at this post. Seems the same problem you have and it is solved https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12828163/why-are-my-php-tags-converted-to-html-comments . Hopes this helps — Francisco Valle, Feb 07 '18 at 15:21
try removing the quotation marks because that implies a string, or use the single quote. — mcv, Feb 07 '18 at 15:21

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 07 '18 at 15:23

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You can't run PHP code with JavaScript. When the user receives the page, the server will have evaluated and run all PHP code, and taken it out.

answered Feb 07 '18 at 15:23

Zaheer Abbas

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