[RESOLVED] this.href

andersstudio

I have a window in a text editor that contains a browser server button. When this button is clicked, it pops open a small window with a list of links from my db. When a link is clicked, it should populate the URL field in the main window with a specific path. The functionality works, but the default code that I found, this.href, pulls the path of the pop-up window and not the custom path that I need, content.php?page=$name

I tried to replace this.href with content.php?page=$name, but it doesn't work. How does this anchor code need to be coded to make this happen? Here is the code that I have been working with:

$sql = "SELECT name, auto_id, parent
            FROM nav_and_content
            ORDER BY name";

  $result = mysql_query($sql,$dbc);

  while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_NUM)){
     $name = $row[0];
     $id = $row[1];
     $parent = $row[2];

     print("<a href=\"#\" onclick=\"window.parent.opener.SetUrl(this.href);window.parent.close();\">$name</a><br />");

Thanks.

Krik

this.href = #

You didn't set the href in that element.

Also "SetUrl" I am guessing that is defined in some javascript somewhere else in your page maybe worth a look in to whether it is doing what it is suppose to.

Of course I would maybe try a totally different approach

I got all 3 of these to load google in a new window

<a href="#" onclick="window.parent.open('http://www.google.com');window.parent.close();">Test Link</a>

<a href="#" onclick="window.parent.open('http://www.google.com');">Test Link</a>

<a href="#" onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com');">Test Link</a>

To load your "content.php?page=$name"

print('<a href="#" onclick="window.open(\'content.php?page=' . $name . '\');">' . $name . '</a><br />')

And really why you would use this.href on an <a href=""> is kind of the hard way to go about it.

<a href="content.php?page=<?php echo $name; ?>" target="_blank"><?php echo $name; ?></a>

That will do the same as all the above and you can keep javascript out of it.

andersstudio

Krik,

Thank you for the code samples. It looks like the # in the href resets the path to the root of the domain so I had to declare the path (/folder/subfolder/) in the window.parent.opener.SetUrl parentheses as shown below. The second issue was that I needed single quotes surrounding the URL.

I know this looks more complicated than it has to be, but this is based on the default code to a text editor. When you click on this link it sets the URL into the field of a different window.

print("<a href=\"#\" onclick=\"window.parent.opener.SetUrl('/folder/subfolder/content.php?page=$name');window.parent.close();\">$name</a><br />");

Again, thanks for your help.