An alternative popup...

[Steve]

I'm looking at a different means of creating a popup to calling js. I'd
like to use the standard <a href... target="_new"> syntax, so that I can
dynamically control the content of the popup using php. However, I'd like
to control the way it looks as you can with a javascript popup - no
buttons, etc. I'm trying to do this by calling a js function at body
onload=..., and have had some success - 've resized it, and moved it away
from the top left corner of the screen. However, I am not a js programmer,
and am having limited success using js 101 sites and google.

So far, I've got

<script language='javas cript'>
var arrTemp=self.lo cation.href.spl it(\"?\");
var picUrl = (arrTemp.length >0)?arrTemp[1]:\"\";
var NS = (navigator.appN ame==\"Netscape \")?true:fal se;

function FitPic() {
self.blur();
iWidth = (NS)?window.inn erWidth:documen t.body.clientWi dth;
iHeight = (NS)?window.inn erHeight:docume nt.body.clientH eight;
iWidth = " . $_GET["Width"] . " - iWidth + 250;
iHeight = " . $_GET["Height"] . " - iHeight + 20;
self.resizeBy(i Width, iHeight);
self.moveTo (200, 200);
self.focus();
};
</script>

Can anyone point me to resources to tell me how to remove the standard
browser buttons, or tell me that this approach makes it impossible???

TIA,

Steve

[Steve]

Re: An alternative popup...

On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 18:29:24 +1300, Steve wrote:
[color=blue]
> I'm looking at a different means of creating a popup to calling js. I'd
> like to use the standard <a href... target="_new"> syntax, so that I can
> dynamically control the content of the popup using php. However, I'd like
> to control the way it looks as you can with a javascript popup - no
> buttons, etc. I'm trying to do this by calling a js function at body
> onload=..., and have had some success - 've resized it, and moved it away
> from the top left corner of the screen. However, I am not a js programmer,
> and am having limited success using js 101 sites and google.
>
> So far, I've got
>
> <script language='javas cript'>
> var arrTemp=self.lo cation.href.spl it(\"?\");
> var picUrl = (arrTemp.length >0)?arrTemp[1]:\"\";
> var NS = (navigator.appN ame==\"Netscape \")?true:fal se;
>
> function FitPic() {
> self.blur();
> iWidth = (NS)?window.inn erWidth:documen t.body.clientWi dth;
> iHeight = (NS)?window.inn erHeight:docume nt.body.clientH eight;
> iWidth = " . $_GET["Width"] . " - iWidth + 250;
> iHeight = " . $_GET["Height"] . " - iHeight + 20;
> self.resizeBy(i Width, iHeight);
> self.moveTo (200, 200);
> self.focus();
> };
> </script>
>
> Can anyone point me to resources to tell me how to remove the standard
> browser buttons, or tell me that this approach makes it impossible???
>
> TIA,
>
> Steve[/color]

.... or, failing this, is it possible to pass the raw html code, rather
than an URL to a more standard js popup() function?

[Sune Storgaard]

Re: An alternative popup...

Steve wrote:[color=blue][color=green]
>> Can anyone point me to resources to tell me how to remove the
>> standard browser buttons, or tell me that this approach makes it
>> impossible???[/color][/color]

You have bigger problems than a popup, if you cant tell the difference
between php & javascript.

[Steve]

Re: An alternative popup...

On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 06:47:22 +0100, Sune Storgaard wrote:
[color=blue]
> Steve wrote:[color=green][color=darkred]
>>> Can anyone point me to resources to tell me how to remove the
>>> standard browser buttons, or tell me that this approach makes it
>>> impossible???[/color][/color]
>
> You have bigger problems than a popup, if you cant tell the difference
> between php & javascript.[/color]
Thanks for your help. It's been really helpful. Given that it's early
morning in Denmark, I expect you've had a heavy Friday night?

Please tell me how *you* use a server side scripting language to generate
a popup with dynamic content without going via an intermediate file of
some kind, and use the JS window.open to control the display?

Steve.

[Nicholas Sherlock]

Re: An alternative popup...

Steve wrote:[color=blue]
> Please tell me how *you* use a server side scripting language to generate
> a popup with dynamic content without going via an intermediate file of
> some kind, and use the JS window.open to control the display?[/color]

Pop up a window. Write the code that generates the display in the .php
file that you popped up.

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock

[Jim Michaels]

Re: An alternative popup...


"Steve" <ThisOne@Aint.V alid> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.0 2.04.05.34.08.2 48857@Aint.Vali d...[color=blue]
> On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 18:29:24 +1300, Steve wrote:
>[color=green]
>> I'm looking at a different means of creating a popup to calling js. I'd
>> like to use the standard <a href... target="_new"> syntax, so that I can
>> dynamically control the content of the popup using php. However, I'd like
>> to control the way it looks as you can with a javascript popup - no
>> buttons, etc. I'm trying to do this by calling a js function at body
>> onload=..., and have had some success - 've resized it, and moved it away
>> from the top left corner of the screen. However, I am not a js
>> programmer,
>> and am having limited success using js 101 sites and google.
>>
>> So far, I've got
>>
>> <script language='javas cript'>
>> var arrTemp=self.lo cation.href.spl it(\"?\");
>> var picUrl = (arrTemp.length >0)?arrTemp[1]:\"\";
>> var NS = (navigator.appN ame==\"Netscape \")?true:fal se;
>>
>> function FitPic() {
>> self.blur();
>> iWidth = (NS)?window.inn erWidth:documen t.body.clientWi dth;
>> iHeight = (NS)?window.inn erHeight:docume nt.body.clientH eight;
>> iWidth = " . $_GET["Width"] . " - iWidth + 250;
>> iHeight = " . $_GET["Height"] . " - iHeight + 20;
>> self.resizeBy(i Width, iHeight);
>> self.moveTo (200, 200);
>> self.focus();
>> };
>> </script>
>>
>> Can anyone point me to resources to tell me how to remove the standard
>> browser buttons, or tell me that this approach makes it impossible???
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Steve[/color]
>
> ... or, failing this, is it possible to pass the raw html code, rather
> than an URL to a more standard js popup() function?[/color]

you are doing fine with your js so far.
a standard way to opena window is
window.open(url ,title,"width=1 00,height=100,t oolbar=no,locat ion=no,director ies=no,status=n o,menubar=no,sc rollbars=no,res izeable=no,copy history=no");

maybe these attribute names will help you google for something.

[Jim Michaels]

Re: An alternative popup...


"Steve" <ThisOne@Aint.V alid> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.0 2.04.05.29.23.5 74829@Aint.Vali d...[color=blue]
> I'm looking at a different means of creating a popup to calling js. I'd
> like to use the standard <a href... target="_new"> syntax, so that I can
> dynamically control the content of the popup using php. However, I'd like
> to control the way it looks as you can with a javascript popup - no
> buttons, etc. I'm trying to do this by calling a js function at body
> onload=..., and have had some success - 've resized it, and moved it away
> from the top left corner of the screen. However, I am not a js programmer,
> and am having limited success using js 101 sites and google.
>
> So far, I've got
>[/color]
<script language="javas cript">
var arrTemp=self.lo cation.href.spl it("?");
var picUrl = (arrTemp.length >0)?arrTemp[1]:"";
var NS = (navigator.appN ame=="Netscape" )?true:false;

function FitPic() {
self.blur();
iWidth = (NS)?window.inn erWidth:documen t.body.clientWi dth;
iHeight = (NS)?window.inn erHeight:docume nt.body.clientH eight;
iWidth = <?php echo intval($_GET["Width"]); ?> - iWidth + 250;
iHeight = <?php echo intval($_GET["Height"]); ?> - iHeight + 20;
self.resizeBy(i Width, iHeight);
self.moveTo (200, 200);
self.focus();
};
</script>

if it's any interest, W3C's HTML validator requires the script element to
have the type="text/javascript" attribute.
correction to your code made above to make it PHP compatible.
I am told it's better (and faster) to drop out of the interpreter for HTML
stuff than to echo huge amounts of HTML.

[color=blue]
>
> Can anyone point me to resources to tell me how to remove the standard
> browser buttons, or tell me that this approach makes it impossible???
>
> TIA,
>
> Steve[/color]