closing popups

[cgillin]

I have a site where I would like to be able to open a new window when a user reaches my home page. If they reach some other pages on my site I would like to be able to close that window I had opened.

Not to sure if this can be done with just javascript or if I need to incorporate something like php to accomplish this. If anyone has any ideas let me know please.

Thanks for the help,
Chris

 

[grtfercho]

Here's an idea.
Write a cookie when you open the popup on the homepage (make sure your window has a name).
When another page from your website opens up check for the existence or value of the cookie. Based on that close the popup.



grtfercho çB^]\..
"Imagination is more important than Knowledge"A. Einstein

 

[cgillin]

Yeah, I was trying to avoid cookies but that's probably the easiest way to go about it. Thanks for the advice.

 

[checkai]

in the pages that pop-up couldn't you just say

window.opener.close();

dlc

 

[cgillin]

What I tried doing was creating a new window called newwin onload of my homepage. What I'm trying to do is close the window at another page by adding onload="newwin.close()". This won't close the window however. Any ideas how I could make this work.

 

[LFI]

If the second page is opened by the same window that opens newwin, you can probably get away with opener.newwin.close();

One way to cheat would be to remember the name of the window you're opening:

window.open("abcd.html","WINDOW_NAME");

Then, in the second page, you can:

var newwin = window.open("about:blank","[b]WINDOW_NAME[/b]");
newwin.close();

It's kind of cheap, I guess, but it works for me in IE6.

--Dave

 

[cgillin]

Thanks Dave

Sometimes the cheap way is the best way. That worked out real well.

Chris

 

[LFI]

Chris,

Technically, thanks go to someone else on this board who had published this trick once before. I don't remember who it was, but I liked the trick, so I remembered it.

'glad it works!

--Dave