syntax highlighting question

hi all,

i gather from the lack of response that my previous question has no feasible answer. anyway, i have updated the question a bit to give some other possible ways of solving the problem. any pointers in the right direction would be much appreciated. i am pretty competent with vim but i have little to no vim scripting. then again i am a quick learner and very eager haha...

here is the updated question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11661614/vim-php-javascriptinstrings-option

I noticed that the syntax/php.vim file on my ubuntu machine has a php_htmlInStrings option. I can turn this option on to display HTML syntax highlighting within strings in my php files, which is great. I would also like to do javascript syntax highlighting within strings in a php file. Does anybody know if this can be done and if so how can I do it?

edited - added extra possibilities

I should also mention that I would be happy with a solution where i have to parse all my javascript strings though a php function before outputting the result. This might get around the problem suggested by connor below where vim has trouble deciding if the string contains javascript. for example:

$js = "some regular text which is not javascript##now vim has
detected that this part is javscript##back to regular text";
  parse($js);
function parse($str)
  {
    return str_replace('##', '', $str);
  }

The reason I would be happy to do this is because I will probably be incorporating a html/css/js variable minifier into my project which will be doing substitutions on strings anyway.

Of course if there is a vim-specific equivalent character for ## which will not show up in the source code and would not need to be filtered out then this would be preferable...

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