Image popup window

brentcatoe

I am trying to make an image popup window using php and java. I have thumbnail that I want to link to a larger picture and when you click on the thumbnail the bigger picture pops up in a window and below the picture there is a link that says "close window"

Here is what i have so far.

I have a page lets just call it pic.php

here is the code i have for the link for the thumbnail.

then I made a file called window.php and here is the code in it

<center>
<?php
echo "<img src='$id'>";
?>
</center>
 
 
 
 
<center><a href="javascript:window.close">Close Windows</a></center>
</body>

I get the popup but there is no picture, only a X, I have a pic called 1.jpg in my root directory. if you right click on the red x whre the pic should be and go to properties the filename it is trying to load is just ".jpg" with no prefix.
Any suggestions, this is driving me crazy.

THanks in advance.

maxpup979

try using $_GET['id'] instead of just $id. that may do it.

rikmoncur

I made a gallery like this and folks complained they couldn't see the larger images - I suspect Windows SP2 prevents the javascript popup window.

brentcatoe

the GET_$ID didnt work, nothing showed up on the screen that time. The popup problem doesnt seem to be a problem on my computer, I can make a image popup using nothing but javascript but I want a a close window link and that means that you have to build a seperate page and I dont want to build a seperate page for each picture. I hardly know any java so I cant do it that way so I was hoping I could find something in PHP

Rodney_H_

brentcatoe wrote:
the GET_$ID didnt work

It is not "GET$ID" but it is "$GET['id']" . Try again. 🙂

brentcatoe

I still get nothing, you can go here and see what it is doing. www.brentcatoe.com/php/cattest.php the first thumbnail is the one I am testing.

THanks

Rodney_H_

Do you still get an X in place of the image? If so, what happens when you right click on the X to look at its properties? I bet it is a path problem. You may need to do something like this in your pop up page:

<img src="path/to/image/<?php echo $_GET['id']; ?> .jpg" />

Or you could try this:

<?php echo "<img src='path/to/image/". $_GET['id'] . "jpg'  />"; ?>

Of course making sure your "path/to/image/" is really the server path to your image files!

brentcatoe

ok I got it working using this code
<img src=<?php echo $_GET['id']; ?>.jpg />

the picture displays but 2 things.

1.not only does the popup display but the page with the thumbnails also changes and displays this on the page [object].
2.the same thing happens when I click on the close window link, the window doesnt close but this appears [object].

Thanks for the help

maxpup979

first, its javascript, not java...also you can pop the new window without the JS, by using <a href="window.php?id=1" target="_blank">
The advantage that the window.open function has (IMHO) is that you can do things like resize the window.

As it stands, the page generated by your site comes back as completely blank...no source or anything....

Rodney_H_

Don't know if it will help, but I like to use "onClick" and then "return false" for opening windows rather than using the href like this:


<a href="#" onClick="window.open('window.php?id=1', 'window-name', 'height=250,width=250');return false"><img src="images2/cat2/thumbs/cat_small1.jpg" width="120" height="90"></a>

Hope this helps...