variables to popup win

techmeister

Hi there:

We'll skip the evils of popup windows!
I'm using one to pop-up a help-page. Depending where the user clicked 'help', relevant help material is displayed in a pop-up window (using JavaScript).

To do this the hyperlink passes a variable in the normal way to the pop-up page.

However; seeing as the href is a '#' (to prevent the current page from changing to the help page too..) then the variable I set using <a href="#?page=somepage">help</a> is not picked up by the pop up window.

How on earth does one do this? I have scoured the archives for nearly an hour without success...

Any pointers would be well-received (as opposed to unwell-recieved whatever that is..)

Cheers:
Russ

Anon

I do something similar to this, execpt with alerts....

Have a javascript function on the page called popup_window($page) that takes page and opens a new window with the $page parameter, and then the links look something like this...

The return false should stop the link from being followed.

Disclaimer: Javascript isn't my native tounge, so syntax may not be exact.

Anon

Hey Russ

though I'm not sure and I didn't have the time to try it. I think you're adding the variables at the wring place, namely at the fake link with href="#"

instead you should add the variables to the javascript function call to the attribute of the function that contains the URL of the help window, like that:

Try it!
Matthias

Anon

try this

then in you js function (popupscript) pull out the value for the php page you need to link to

techmeister

Yeehaaa Grandma!

I just sussed it thinking I was the only one (some chance) hen I saw you three had osrted it also!

Many thanks people, here's what I did:
<a href="JavaScript:MM_openBrWindow('help.php?page=sport','helpWin','scroll=1,resize=0,status=0,toolbar=0,width=200px,height=300px')"

sweet!

Cheers again 🙂

Russ