how to open link in a new window?

nowhere

It's oh so simple, but I know ohsolittle, and would love your help.

I want to make it so that when they click a link within a frame, it doesn't open within the frame, but rather in a new window.

If you cared to explain to me the how to's of having that new window be a certain size and/or have certain attributes, that would be swell as well.

Thanks in advance.

-nn

dougal85

<a href="your link url" target="_blank"> the link </a>

the key part being: target="_blank"

nowhere

What if it's in within an array, though... can I still do it?

Here is the code I'm looking at... I'm trying to make the "store.php" files open in a new window.

// Album 0
$album['0'] = array(
"albumtitle" => "(In progress)",
"title" => array(

/ 001 / "Everything is Going to be Okay",
/ 002 / "We Were Broken Before We Began",

/ 003 / "(NO D/L) Someone Else's Problem",
/ 004 / "(NO D/L) From the Best of Intentions",
/ 005 / "Richard D James",

/ 006 / "(NO D/L) Discord and Delusion",
),

	"time" => array(

/ 001 / "06:44",
/ 002 / "05:02",
/ 003 / "05:31",
/ 004 / "07:34",
/ 005 / "03:58",
/ 006 / "04:54",
),

	"description" => array(

/001 / "Later",
/002 / "Later",
/003 / "Later",
/004 / "Later",
/005 / "Later",
/006 / "Later",

	),

    "download" => array(

/ 001 / "../../mp3/Sad Music for Happy Humans - Everything is going to be Okay.mp3",
/ 002 / "../../mp3/Sad Music for Happy Humans - We Were Broken Before We Began.mp3",
/ 003 / "http://www.thecommonwoods.com/nowhere/store.php",
/ 004 / "http://www.thecommonwoods.com/nowhere/store.php",
/ 005 / "../../mp3/Sad Music for Happy Humans - Richard D James.mp3",
/ 006 / "http://www.thecommonwoods.com/nowhere/store.php",
),
);

bradgrafelman

Moving thread to ClientSide Technologies forum...

If you only want store.php to open in a new window, and not the other windows, then you'll need to make some modification to the way the code works.

As it is, you haven't even shown us the part of the code that opens the window, so it's difficult to say what modifications you'd need.

nowhere

bradgrafelman wrote:
As it is, you haven't even shown us the part of the code that opens the window, so it's difficult to say what modifications you'd need.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought I did so here:

"download" => array(

That's where I change the links that need to be changed... but are you saying you need something more? Forgive my slowness, the template was made by someone else and I'm just figuring this out as I go along.

EDIT:

Or are you saying I need to change what it says in the store.php file rather than the php file the link comes from (which is what I showed you)?

If so, that code is as follows:

MOD EDIT: Code removed because a) doesn't assist in solving the problem, b) had some e-mail addresses in it (good way to get your box filled with spam).

USER EDIT: thanks mod!

bradgrafelman

Right, that's where you define the links. Somewhere else in this code, however, actually takes a link from that array and redirects the browser to it. That's what we need to see, because that's where you'd tell it to use a new window instead of the current one.

nowhere

bradgrafelman wrote:
Right, that's where you define the links. Somewhere else in this code, however, actually takes a link from that array and redirects the browser to it. That's what we need to see, because that's where you'd tell it to use a new window instead of the current one.

I think then, that you might be wanting the template of the page, as I imagine that's where such commands would be. Let's hope then, shall we? As follows:

<?php
$currentpage = "nowhere_iframe"; // Name of page's secondary folder under /pages/
$subdirs = "../../"; // Add ../ for each subdirectory
$menu = "off"; // Hide the menu
include($subdirs . "pages/includes/header.php"); // Output generic header
?>

<?php
require('variables.php');
$t_num = $GET['t'];
$a_num = $GET['a'];

// Do this if no album or title is selected...
if (!isset($t_num) || !isset($a_num)) {
echo "<p>Please select a title to see details. </p> \n";
}

// Do this if the given $number is invalid...
elseif (!isset($album[$a_num]["title"][$t_num]))
{
echo "<p>Error: the data requested does not exist in the database. Please report this to the webmaster.</p> \n";
}

// Or dynamically create a page if everything is OK...
else {
for ( $i = 0; $i < count($album[$a_num]["title"][$t_num]); $i++ ) {

echo '<p><a href="' . $album[$a_num]["download"][$t_num] . '">Download</a></p>';
echo '<h4 style="margin: 0px;">' . $album[$a_num]["title"][$t_num] . '</h4>';
echo '<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 0.9em;">[' . $album[$a_num]["time"][$t_num] . '] ' . $album[$a_num]["description"][$t_num] . '</p>';
}
}
?>

<?php
include($subdirs . "pages/includes/footer.php"); // Output generic footer
?>

Also, I was wondering if someone knew of any good spots to go to get a store type of template that functions well and easily with paypal...