Opening new window with URL

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hi, I would like to pass a URL from controller to ‘out_view’ where it has to open that URL in new window and open that website url.

Looking forward to hear from you guys soon.

Khan

2

It’s look like boarded on wrong ship, as nobody reply :)

3

I think this has to do more of the use of a javascript function than with Yii. Have a look into window.open javascript function at google, plenty of info.

4

Anyway I really appreciate your feedback Antonio Ramirez, bytheway, I found the way to handle it like this…


<?php echo "<META http-equiv='refresh' content='1;URL= $model->weburl'>"; ?>
5

or




<?php 

echo '<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> 

window.open("'.$model->weburl.'"); 

</script>'; 

?>

edit: Is it what you meant? otherwise, why dont you just use




<?php


header('Location: '.$model->weburl);

?>

but for the above you better do not use a view… just call it from the controller’s action

6

Thanks for those tips as well and I did update my codes with your second option like this


header('Location: '.$model->weburl);

I really appreciated your more interest and feedback in it. Chao :)

7

and don’t forget you can close it from the parent opener too:




var childWindow = window.open("'.$model->weburl.'"); 

childWindow.close();

the child window can even access the parent window via:




window.opener.alert('Hey I'm the child window talking to the parent window');
8

One thing to bear in mind with window.open, is that many browsers will prevent the popup from appearing if it has no user interaction.