Link as a popup, howto ?
Link as a popup, howto ?
Thursday 28 August 2008 5:46:57 pm - 1 reply
Hi,
After trying to find a starting point somewhere around ez sites.. here I am !
I'm trying to figure out how to "simply" open a node or object as a popup !
More in details, what I'm looking for (am I alone in that case ?) :
1/ Insert node/object link to a word or image
2/ Choosing "popup" in the view dropdown
3/ That's all ! The link should open a popup window !
Couple of headaches (javascript window.open si well known)
Should I select a special class for opening a popup ?
Is it possible to open a standart object (article, blog_post...) sometime in a popup and elsewhere inside a "normal" page, it measn inline or embedded ?
Any step-by-step tutos ?
Was it clear ?
Anyway, I think you can found out what I'm talking about, no ?
Thanks in advance for your help !
David
Thursday 28 August 2008 11:13:58 pm
I'm posting alone... just for myself... Snifff !
Anyway I resolved part of my problem, changing page_layout for my own layout without menu and so on [1]. The next part, the harder one, is to find a solution to give the ability for editor to use this function by choosing a custom type withi a drop down.
Unfortunately when looking for a custom tag to start with, I see that we only have one variable in its scope, $content. To achieve my needs, I need at least 2 vars, le name of the link (title) and the url for the open.window function. (in fact, it could be usefull to add vars for width, height... and so on !
I started to put an onload="resizeTo" within the body tag of my main tpl but in navigators like Firefox, opening a new window open a tab ! And resizing the window means resizing the whole tab set !!!
But it works and IE will save me (for the first time of my life 
Anyone to help me on this topic ?
Thank you,
David
[1] How I made it :
- Create an overall template including needed headers
- adding a specific view for that purpose in extension/ezdhtml/settings/site.ini.append:
In the section
[LinkViewModeSettings]
Add (for a link like purpose)
AvailableViewModes[]=pop # or whatever name you like to use !
- In override.ini.append.php :
[infobox_pop]
Source=pagelayout.tpl
MatchFile=pop/infobox_pop.tpl # Tempate created above. Will replace pagelayout
Subdir=templates
Match[class_identifier]=infobox # for a class type selector
or
Match[node]=5 # In case of a node_id selector
I hope it could help someone and avoid him a hard informations harvesting !
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