Using PHP in javascript's IF Statement

You fundamentally misunderstand what PHP is doing.

PHP is evaluated on the server before the page is sent to your browser. By the time the browser sees it and executes the javascript, all the PHP is gone.

Use your browser's "view source" on the browser window with this code in it. You'll see it looks like this:

You either need to implement what you want to do in javascript to run on the browser, or you need to send a new request to the server and get a new page back (either directly or indirectly) with your response.