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[website]

and once again 'java script' should be javascript I belive.

wierd why vB splits it up!

[weirdbeardmt]

and once again 'java script' should be javascript I belive.

wierd why vB splits it up!

i believe it does it as a security measure.

[website]

i believe it does it as a security measure.

man, that is just silly, they have gone too far now I think...

[Dr Livingston]

Just a test though - in the event that [object] is due to you using a link - and this that follows will give a true/false answer if it's something to do with your link.

Instead of using a link use a button instead and have a look at the parent window to see if [object] if there or not.

If not then it's your link that's f***ed 8)

BTW - I mean the HTML button and not a FORM button 8)

[Sarah]

man, that is just silly, they have gone too far now I think...

its been like this since well erm.. since years ago actually. and its quite easy to get round once you know about it

[website]

and its quite easy to get round once you know about it

and how would that be?

its been like this since well erm.. since years ago actually

well, havn't had a long experience with vB but this is still... stupid

[Sarah]

well everytime your saw the word jav script with a space you would know that it was supposed to be one word ... its a bit like writing & n b s p ; and knowing the you ahve to include the spaces

anyway we disgress back to Dean's problem.

[Dr Livingston]

Visual Basic ? What do you expect from Microsoft ? LoL...

[Deano]

Hi all, ok website here's the full script :

<?php
  
// includes
include("conf.php");

// open database connection
$connection = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass) or die ("Unable to connect!");

// select database
        mysql_select_db($db) or die ("Unable to select database!");

$ocnews = @mysql_query('SELECT ID, headline, DATE_FORMAT(date,\'%W %D %M \') AS realdate, content, author FROM ocnews ORDER BY author DESC LIMIT 5'); 
if (!$ocnews) { 
die('<p><font color="red" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Error retrieving news from database!</font><br />'. 
'Error: ' . mysql_error() . '</p>'); 
} 

while ($author = mysql_fetch_array($ocnews)) { 
       $id = $author['ID']; 
       $headline = ($author['headline']); 
       $date = $author['realdate']; 
       $content = ($author['content']); 
       $author = ($author['author']); 
 echo ( '<a href="article.php?id=$id" target="_blank" onclick="window.open( this.href, this.target, \'width=400, height=455\' ); return false;">
         $headline</a><img src="News/images/spacer.gif"width="10" height="4" border="0">$date<br>');  
}

?>

Link to the script currrently on my server !
http://www.ops-centre.co.uk/squadron...headlines3.php

If i change the " to ' then I lose the new window format IE no scrolbars etc.

cheers Deano

[Sarah]

Um have you tried it with " not ' (double quotes in single quotes) as I thought php only parsed values with double quotes?

echo ( "<a href=\"article.php?id=".$id."\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, this.target, \"width=400, height=455\" ); return false;\">".$headline."</a><img src=\"News/images/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" height=\"4\" border=\"0\">".$date."<br>");   
} 

like that?

[Sarah]

quick test it works for me - obviously I am not using your sql query but putting in a set $id=14 just before it and it works just fine?!?

[Deano]

thx sarah !

I'll try to add the new window formating now IE noresize etc

Best Regards
Deano

[Deano]

Well the script finally works as required, here's the echo just incase someone else is having a simular problem,

echo ( "<a href=\"article.php?id=".$id."\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, this.target, 'width=400, height=455, status=no,scrolling=no,resizable=no,scrollbars=no' ); return false;\">".$headline."</a><img src=\"News/images/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" height=\"4\" border=\"0\">".$date."<br>" ); 

Here's the link to see it in action :

www.ops-centre.co.uk/squadron/News/headlines.php

Thx for all your help folks !

Best Regards
Deano !

[Dr Livingston]

Ok, but another issue that you'll need to address is that every time you click on a link the news opens up in a new window.

I clicked over all 3 and I had 3 windows 8)

What you'd need to do is give your window a name and check for this first before you open a new window.

You might want to look at www.javascriptsource.com for more on pop up windows ?

Just a thought nothing more 8)

[Deano]

Thx Dr

If you wouldnt have pointed this out i would never have noticed.

I will look into this and post the finalised script again

Best Regards
Deano

[Dr Livingston]

Hope this helps ?

What happens if we execute the window.open() method twice, with the same sName argument? Like HTML-generated windows, if you specify the name of a window that already exists, open() simply uses that existing window rather than opening a new one. Take a look at the following script:

window.open("[url=http://www.javascript.com/]http://www.javascript.com/[/url]", "win");
window.open("[url=http://www.docjs.com/]http://www.docjs.com/[/url]", "win");
If you execute these statements, the browser opens a new window named "win" to display the [url=http://www.javascript.com]www.javascript.com[/url] page. But the second statement then replaces the URL of the new window with [url=http://www.docjs.com]www.docjs.com[/url]. The following statements generate two different windows to display these Web sites:

window.open("[url=http://www.javascript.com/]http://www.javascript.com/[/url]", "win1");
window.open("[url=http://www.docjs.com/]http://www.docjs.com/[/url]", "win2");
Go ahead and run these statements. The browser opens two new windows. The first one, named "win1", loads the URL [url=http://www.javascript.com]www.javascript.com[/url], while the other window, named "win2", loads the URL [url=http://www.docjs.com]www.docjs.com[/url]. Note that [url=http://www.docjs.com]www.docjs.com[/url] is the same as [url=http://www.webreference.com/js]www.webreference.com/js[/url].
If we don't specify a name for the new window, the browser automatically launches a new window. The same applies to the name "_blank", but an empty string is another story. There are several important differences between Internet Explorer and Navigator: 

Something I picked up from webreference a while back on using windows and Javascript.