Why does Internet Explorer throw an “Object Expected” error?

Question

When opening our client front end in IE, I get the error "Object Expected" and it points to the following when I debug. I've googled, but nothing straightforward yet.

$(document).ready(function() {
$("#login_form").bind("submit", function() { processLogin(); return false; })

if ('<?php echo $_GET['email']?>' != '' && '<?php echo $_GET['password']?>' != '' ) {
    $('#login_form').submit();
}});

Answer 1

You've got PHP in your JavaScript there, which is screwing up your JavaScript. Specifically, the opening ' in $_GET['email'] is being interpreted by JavaScript as the end of the string, and then it's trying to parse that bit after it as JavaScript code, which obviously it isn't.

Apparently your server is not processing this file through your PHP interpreter; fix that, though, and it looks like your JavaScript code is good (although I only took a cursory glance through it, so I claim no responsibility if it's still broken!).