window on top

[tito]

I am trying to force a new window on exit. _top does not work. The code below works but not for people who have popup disabled. I need this because in bye.php there are code to do a routine in database. So if someone is in a specific page and click on another link, I'd like to display bye.php instead, whichever link they click on.

<script language="JavaScript">
  window.onbeforeunload = bye;
function bye() {
window.open('bye.php');
}
</script>

[bpat1434]

You could always change your links to use an outgoing page like:

mydomain.com/goodbye.php?url=abcd

Then your goodbye.php does your housecleaning, and after it's done, just shuffles them off to whatever URL they want (as specified by the $_GET variable "url").

Otherwise, you could always just use a cron job to run every hour or every 1/2 hour depending upon your need.

[tito]

Thanks for replying. I ended up doing the onbeforeunload with ajax to send the request to a php.

With IE 7 and other popup blockers that other solution was impossible.

[bpat1434]

So what happens when they don't have JS enabled? Or they block your "onbeforeunload" event?

[tito]

bpat1434 wrote:

So what happens when they don't have JS enabled? Or they block your "onbeforeunload" event?[/QUOT

Then they cannot access the script at all. 😉

How can they block the onbeforeunload?

[bpat1434]

I'm not sure how they could, but that doesn't mean it can't be done 😉

[tito]

Everything is possible if you have security flaws. Entire sites do get hacked, right? :-)

[Weedpacket]

bpat1434 wrote:

I'm not sure how they could, but that doesn't mean it can't be done

Open the DOM window in firebug, go to the window object, and delete the property 🙂