[solved] how do i make a page pop open in a new (federated) window?

[tonyg]

hi,
 I would like to have a page pop open a new (federated) browser window that just has borders and no browser menu's.  setting the option to _blank does not do that, it opens a different tab in FF or a complete browser in IE.  I think javascript does this with a window.open, can i add logic to the page so it behaves that way?

[jmcgin51]

use Javascript to open the window

If you don't know how, Google is your friend.  This is really a Javascript question, not a CMSMS question.

[tonyg]

hi,
  would i put it in the "Smarty data or logic that is specific to this page:" section of the page?

[jmcgin51]

no, just in the page content itself.

also see http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... your_pages

[tonyg]

right, so i would have to put that into the template, is there a way to put that into an individual page without affecting other pages that use that template?

[Peciura]

Try

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{popup_init src='http://myserver.org/my_js_libs/overlib/overlib.js'}
{popup text='This link takes you to my page!'}

all parameter can be found at http://www.smarty.net/manual/en/languag ... .popup.php
Link to overlib library is also listed.

[calguy1000]

I love jquery...
with a little bit of menu manager magic... and jquery
you could easily have popup windows in your navigation:

http://abeautifulsite.net/notebook/47

[jmcgin51]

right, so i would have to put that into the template, is there a way to put that into an individual page without affecting other pages that use that template?

you can use it like any Javascript.  If something needs to go in the , then you put it in your template and call it in the page.  If nothing needs to be in the , just call it within the page.

[tonyg]

all,
  thanks for all your input.  here is what i ended up doing.

the problem is that i wanted to pop up some pages from the menu to a new window (not tab).

what i did was made a new menu template.  in that template, i change the tag to include an onclick like this:

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{if $node->type != 'sectionheader' and $node->type != 'separator'} onclick="window.open('{$node->url}','','directories=no,location=no,status=no,menubar=no,resizable=0,width=650,height=600');return false;" 
href="{$node->url}" {if $node->accesskey != ''}accesskey="{$node->accesskey}" {/if}{if $node->tabindex != ''}tabindex="{$node->tabindex}" {/if}{if $node->titleattribute != ''}title="{$node->titleattribute}"{/if}{if $node->target ne ""} target="{$node->target}"{/if}>> {$node->menutext}</a>

{/if}

the downside is that all the pages called by this template would be affected.  I was able to make it work.  What would be really nice is if I could have used an if then on a property of the page to choose whether or not it would be opened in a new window.

if anyone knows how to do that, please let me know.

thanks

[jmcgin51]

you could use one of the Extra page attributes as the trigger for your if/then

Extra1: popup

here's the pseudocode:

if pageattribute->extra1 == "popup"
  use the javascript popup script
else
  use the normal menu script

[tonyg]

YES!  i think thats what i was looking for.  i will try that tomorrow.