Auto-fill form on WordPress

Question

I am using the Scripts n Styles plugin with this code to auto-fill a logged in user's email into form on WordPress:

<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload = function () {
document.getElementsByName("Element-Name")[0].value = "<?php $current_user->user_email ?>";
}
</script>

However, when I refresh the page I get the following text (the quoted value in the code above) instead of the actual value.

<?php $current_user->user_email ?>

Any idea what I am missing here? Is this an issue with the plugin?

Answer 1

The first thing I see is that you don't output anything. Try

<?php echo $current_user->user_email; ?>

But in your example it should have been just an empty value. There is something fishy with the PHP parser not detecting the PHP part.