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    copied!<p>I am trying to pull my latest tweet into a variable in javascript, then use growlUI() to display this in a notification in jQuery.</p> <p>Currently, I have pulled my tweet using PHP into a variable in javascript called test. I need to adjust the following jQuery code to use "test" instead of "Hello".</p> <p>Current code works:</p> <pre><code>$.growlUI('Growl Notification','Hello'); </code></pre> <p>Attempted code does not work:</p> <pre><code>$.growlUI('Growl Notification', $(test)); </code></pre> <p><strong>My Question</strong></p> <p><strong>How do I use the variable test, which is a javascript variable, as a jQuery attribute?</strong></p> <p>Many thanks!</p> <p>My source code:</p> <pre><code>&lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;!-- Styling for growlUI --&gt; &lt;style type="text/css"&gt; div.growlUI { background: url(check48.png) no-repeat 10px 10px } div.growlUI h1, div.growlUI h2 { color: white; padding: 5px 5px 5px 75px; text-align: left } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;!-- Import jquery from online --&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.2/jquery.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;!-- Import blockUI --&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.blockUI.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script type = "text/javascript"&gt; &lt;!-- Screenscrape using PHP, put into javascript variable 'test' --&gt; &lt;?php $url = "http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_name=XXXXXXXXXX"; $raw = file_get_contents($url); $newlines = array("\t","\n","\r","\x20\x20","\0","\x0B"); $content = str_replace($newlines, "", html_entity_decode($raw)); $start = strpos($content,'&lt;text&gt;'); $end = strpos($content,'&lt;/text&gt;',$start); $latesttweet = substr($content,$start,$end-$start); echo "var test = ".$latesttweet.";\n"; ?&gt; &lt;/script&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;!-- Here I'm attempting to use test variable in second half of growlUI parameters --&gt; &lt;body onLoad="$.growlUI('Latest Update',test); "&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre>
 

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