Thread: Need FlashChat to open to new window

I use aeDating version 3.3, the DEF template and FlashChat.

I would like Flashchat to open to a new window but am unsure of the proper coding to use.

If the CHAT tab at the top of the screen is used, Flashchat opens to a new window. But when the CHAT link in the member control panel is used, it opens within the same browser window.

I believe the code I need to modify is located in aechat.php:
header("Location: {$site['url']}chat/");

and my assumption is that it is that's where I modify the code... but I don't know how to format "_blank" into it. What really confuses me is that if I place my cursor over the Online Chat tab at the top of the screen and over the chat link in the control panel it points to the same url file (aechat.php). I don't know why the link in the member control panel will not open to a new window.

Any help would be appreciated.

(Yeah, I'm a novice PHP user).

Steven

Hi,

No - you need to take care of this in your menu... not in aechat.php....

You need a Target="_blank" or similar command, in your menu code.

Here is an example, to point you in the right direction...

Code:

$ret .= MenuItem("#F3C302",_t("_Chat"), "", "", "http://www.mysite.com/mypage.php", 0, "_blank"  );

Note - this function is done, and can be done, in several different ways throughout the aeDating code. and there is a difference between $ret and $out.

Smoge

Hi Smoge, thanks for the reminder of this post. I did forget, but that's because I am still very much a novice to all of this... I don't know what file(s) to implement your instructions into.

You can make these changes in /inc/menu_design_XXX.inc.php

Where the XXX is your template name.

Smoge

Thanks again Smoge. Works great.

How about opening in a popup window - no address bar/status bar etc??

Yeah. For 4.1.2 it's in the design.inc.php

Around line 490
find this code

Code:

$ret .= MenuItem("",_t("_Chat"), "", "aechat.php", $site[url] );

Replace it with this code.

Code:

$ret .= MenuItem("",_t("_Chat"), "", "aechat.php",$site[url],0,"target=_blank" );

Thank guys. I guess my mind is going.
Todd

anyone know?

Ok, got the chat to open in a new window, but is there a way to get it sized without any scrollbars (it was asked above) ?

I was looking at the

Code:

$target = "_blank" )

and I can't get this to work:

Code:

 $targetfeatures = "scrollbars=no=width=415=height=440", $target = "_blank" )

Any suggestions?

See this post: Just one of many.

http://www.modmysite.com/showthread....ght=Chat+popup




Change the html as you please.

Todd