What are the common pitfalls when trying to integrate JavaScript and PHP for interactive web functionalities?

One common pitfall when integrating JavaScript and PHP for interactive web functionalities is not properly passing data between the two languages. To solve this, you can use AJAX to send data from JavaScript to a PHP script on the server and receive the response back in JavaScript. 

// PHP script to handle AJAX request and send back response
if(isset($_POST['data'])){
    $data = $_POST['data'];
    
    // Process the data
    
    echo json_encode($response); // Send the response back to JavaScript
}
```

Another common pitfall is mixing PHP and JavaScript code within the same file, leading to confusion and errors. To solve this, separate the PHP logic from the JavaScript code by using PHP to generate the necessary JavaScript code dynamically.

```php
// PHP code to generate JavaScript dynamically
$data = "Hello, World!";
echo "<script>";
echo "var message = '" . $data . "';";
echo "console.log(message);";
echo "</script>";

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