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Open a new window on redirect

Thread began 6/14/2014 12:22 pm by derekmparker375520 | Last modified 6/17/2014 1:00 am by CraigR | 3189 views | 7 replies |

6/14/2014 12:22 pm | #1 derekmparker375520

Open a new window on redirect

I have a form set up that redirects the user to a different site after submitting the form. Is there a way to open this page in a new window?

6/15/2014 4:10 am | #2 CraigRBeta Tester

PHP is server-side.

A new pop-up window is client-side.

Usually this is done with either the target="_blank" attribute in a link, or with javascript using window()

I suppose you could set your php redirect with a get parameter, and use this condition to trigger a script

<?php

if (isset($_GET['popup'] )) { ?>

<script>
window.open("page name", $other_attributes_here );
</script>

<?php } ?>

6/15/2014 4:15 pm | #3 derekmparker375520

Thanks for the reply. I'll give this a shot but I'm not sure where to put this in the code, could you help me out with that? I have the page attached to the previous post.

6/16/2014 1:58 am | #4 CraigRBeta Tester

6/16/2014 2:15 am | #5 derekmparker375520

See PM

6/16/2014 2:35 am | #6 CraigRBeta Tester

PM (if required)

If you change your form, so the redirect points to a new (internal) page, lets say external.php.

set the redirect url as follows... /external.php?popup=true

create a new page called external.php, add the following code within the <head></head> tags

<?php

if (isset($_GET['popup'])) { ?>

<script>
var win = window.open("http://google.com", '_blank');
win.focus();
</script>

<?php } ?>

changing the url to the one you need

This should work as long as the browser doesn;t have popups blocked

6/16/2014 5:50 pm | #7 derekmparker375520

That worked perfectly but there was only one problem. The issue is that the page containing the form (needs.php) has instructions for the site that they're redirected to. So I need the needs.php page to remain open so that they can reference that but it's showing external.php.

6/17/2014 1:00 am | #8 CraigRBeta Tester

A couple of things spring to mind.

1. Instead of redirecting to a new internal page first, just redirect the page to itself, but include the url parameter in the redirect, then add the conditional javascript in the head section.

2. If this doesn't fulfil your needs, can you store whatever values you need in a session variable ?

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