How to open a new Windows and pass PHP value to it?

[kako13]

Hi,

In search_results.php I have a variable named $path which display something like: C:/documents/personal/home.doc

I would like to create a button that link to a new window
which is going to display: C:/documents/personal/home.doc

Right now is being displayed in search_results.php like this:

echo "<td align=left bgcolor=$bgcolor id='title'>&nbsp;<font face='Verdana' size='2'>$path</font></td>";

[Airshow]

Kako,

Easiest way is to use an <a> tag:

echo "<a href="$path" target="_new">Click Me</a>";

You can use <button> if you want but you then have to use window.open etc. etc. because <button> was included in the HTML spec for form submission as an alternative to <input type="button"> , <input type="select"> or <input type="reset"> . It isn't set up to hyperlink by default so you have to write more code.

If you want the <a> to render a bit like a button then you can style it with CSS, eg:

a.button { width:100px; line-height:2.0em; border:1px solid #999; border-bottom-width:2px; border-right-width:2px; background-color:#e0e0e0; text-align:center; font-family:verdana; font-size:9pt; text-decoration:none; color:#000; }
a.button:visited { color:#000; }
a.button:hover { background-color:#e0f0f0; color:#006060; }

Then you just have to set class="button" in the <a> tag.

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[kako13]

Kako,

Easiest way is to use an <a> tag:

echo "<a href="$path" target="_new">Click Me</a>";

You can use <button> if you want but you then have to use window.open etc. etc. because <button> was included in the HTML spec for form submission as an alternative to <input type="button"> , <input type="select"> or <input type="reset"> . It isn't set up to hyperlink by default so you have to write more code.

If you want the <a> to render a bit like a button then you can style it with CSS, eg:

a.button { width:100px; line-height:2.0em; border:1px solid #999; border-bottom-width:2px; border-right-width:2px; background-color:#e0e0e0; text-align:center; font-family:verdana; font-size:9pt; text-decoration:none; color:#000; }
a.button:visited { color:#000; }
a.button:hover { background-color:#e0f0f0; color:#006060; }

Then you just have to set class="button" in the <a> tag.

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Hi, I think I don't explain too well.

I want something like this:

<FORM>
<INPUT type="button" value="New Window!" onClick="window.open('http://www.pageresource.com/jscript/jex5.htm','mywindow','width=400,height=200')">
</FORM>

http://www.pageresource.com/jscript/jwinopen.htm

But instead of display "This is a new window", I would like it to display the content of $path variable.

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Kako,

Where do you want to display $path - in the button or in the new window?

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[kako13]

Kako,

Where do you want to display $path - in the button or in the new window?

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In the new window.

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Kako,

The requested url is available to your server-side scripting language (eg php) and to javascript.

In php use one of the following, depending on exactly what you want:

• $_SERVER,
• $_SERVER,
• $_SERVER,
• $_SERVER

See here for details. Other server-side languages provide similar.

Client-side, Javascript makes the url available in the form of the window.location object. Its properties are:

• window.location.hash
• window.location.host
• window.location.hostname
• window.location.href (the complete url)
• window.location.pathname
• window.location.port
• window.location.protocol
• window.location.search

See eg, here for details. Use document.write() or DHTML techniques to display any of these.

Hence, there are two basic mechanisms for displaying the information you require.

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[kako13]

Kako,

The requested url is available to your server-side scripting language (eg php) and to javascript.

In php use one of the following, depending on exactly what you want:

• $_SERVER,
• $_SERVER,
• $_SERVER,
• $_SERVER

See here for details. Other server-side languages provide similar.

Client-side, Javascript makes the url available in the form of the window.location object. Its properties are:

• window.location.hash
• window.location.host
• window.location.hostname
• window.location.href (the complete url)
• window.location.pathname
• window.location.port
• window.location.protocol
• window.location.search

See eg, here for details. Use document.write() or DHTML techniques to display any of these.

Hence, there are two basic mechanisms for displaying the information you require.

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Ok but that for pass an URL. What I has been trying to do is pass
$path which contain for example: C:/documents/personal/home.doc

I tried something like:

echo "<td align=left bgcolor=$bgcolor id='title'>&nbsp;<font face='Verdana' size='2'><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="window.open('path.php?path= "<?$path;?>"','Path','width=333,height=490,toolbar=no,scrollbars=yes')">View Path</a>
</font></td>";

That's something I'm trying but I'm being unable. That's code give me a lot of error. But that's the idea.

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Kako,

You could make that work, but there's no point. You're just telling the page about something it already knows - namely itself! My previous post refers.

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[kako13]

Kako,

You could make that work, but there's no point. You're just telling the page about something it already knows - namely itself! My previous post refers.

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Ok, there is a confusion. I went able to make it work.
Thanks for trying!

Here is:

echo "<td align=left bgcolor=$bgcolor id='directory'>&nbsp;<font face='Verdana' size='2'><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"window.open('path.php?value=$path','no','scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=400');\">View Path</a></font></td>";

And in path.php just:

<?php
echo $_REQUEST['value'];
?>

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OK, and now try:

<%= $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; %>

or

<script>document.write(location.href);</script>

at the same place on the page.

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