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='javascript'>
var arrTemp=self.location.href.split(\"?\");
var picUrl = (arrTemp.length>0)?arrTemp[1]:\"\";
var NS = (navigator.appName==\"Netscape\")?true:false;

function FitPic() {
self.blur();
iWidth = (NS)?window.innerWidth:document.body.clientWidth;
iHeight = (NS)?window.innerHeight:document.body.clientHeight ;
iWidth = " . $_GET["Width"] . " - iWidth + 250;
iHeight = " . $_GET["Height"] . " - iHeight + 20;
self.resizeBy(iWidth, 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]

On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 18:29:24 +1300, Steve wrote:

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='javascript'>
var arrTemp=self.location.href.split(\"?\");
var picUrl = (arrTemp.length>0)?arrTemp[1]:\"\";
var NS = (navigator.appName==\"Netscape\")?true:false;

function FitPic() {
self.blur();
iWidth = (NS)?window.innerWidth:document.body.clientWidth;
iHeight = (NS)?window.innerHeight:document.body.clientHeight ;
iWidth = " . $_GET["Width"] . " - iWidth + 250;
iHeight = " . $_GET["Height"] . " - iHeight + 20;
self.resizeBy(iWidth, 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

.... 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]

Steve wrote:

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???

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

[Steve]

On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 06:47:22 +0100, Sune Storgaard wrote:

Steve wrote:

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???

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

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]

Steve wrote:

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?

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

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock

[Jim Michaels]

"Steve" <Th*****@Aint.Valid> wrote in message
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On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 18:29:24 +1300, Steve wrote:

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='javascript'>
var arrTemp=self.location.href.split(\"?\");
var picUrl = (arrTemp.length>0)?arrTemp[1]:\"\";
var NS = (navigator.appName==\"Netscape\")?true:false;

function FitPic() {
self.blur();
iWidth = (NS)?window.innerWidth:document.body.clientWidth;
iHeight = (NS)?window.innerHeight:document.body.clientHeight ;
iWidth = " . $_GET["Width"] . " - iWidth + 250;
iHeight = " . $_GET["Height"] . " - iHeight + 20;
self.resizeBy(iWidth, 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

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

you are doing fine with your js so far.
a standard way to opena window is
window.open(url,title,"width=100,height=100,toolba r=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar= no,scrollbars=no,resizeable=no,copyhistory=no");

maybe these attribute names will help you google for something.

[Jim Michaels]

"Steve" <Th*****@Aint.Valid> wrote in message
news:pa****************************@Aint.Valid...

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="javascript">
var arrTemp=self.location.href.split("?");
var picUrl = (arrTemp.length>0)?arrTemp[1]:"";
var NS = (navigator.appName=="Netscape")?true:false;

function FitPic() {
self.blur();
iWidth = (NS)?window.innerWidth:document.body.clientWidth;
iHeight = (NS)?window.innerHeight:document.body.clientHeight ;
iWidth = <?php echo intval($_GET["Width"]); ?> - iWidth + 250;
iHeight = <?php echo intval($_GET["Height"]); ?> - iHeight + 20;
self.resizeBy(iWidth, 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.


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