Need links to external sites to open in center of my page

Nuke Cadet Joined: Dec 23, 2005 Posts: 5

Howdy,

Sorry if this is answered elsewhere, I did several search variations, and could not find anything that looked like it dealt with this.

The need is pretty simple. I have created a Menu, in that menu I have links to external websites. I want those external websites to open in the center of my website.

I have tried creating a module for each link as follows:

Code:

<?php

if (!eregi("modules.php", $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])) {
die ("You can't access this file directly...");
}

if(!IsSet($mainfile)) { include ("mainfile.php"); }
$index=0;

/*$theme="DeepBlue";
$go_to_address1="http://www.schoolmatters.com/";

$go_to_address=rawurldecode($go_to_address1);
include("header.php");

OpenTable();
echo "<center><h4><a href=\"index.php\">Click to close.</a></h4></center>";
echo "<iframe SRC=\"".$go_to_address."\" width=\"100%\" height=\"1200\"
framespacing=0 frameborder=no border=0 scrolling=auto></iframe>";
echo "<br><center>NB. Using iframes!</center><br>";
CloseTable();

include("footer.php");
die;

?>

This did not work. It resulted in a blank white page. No error messages of any kind, just the blank page. Note that I tried it with the theme line both commented out and active.

I tried a couple of other methods that were suggested elsewhere, but they failed as well... in the same way.

Any suggestions?

This would seem like a great module for someone to make. Where admins could enter URLs they would want to link to. It could let the Admin determine whether to open the URL in a new window or in the center... or anywhere else for that matter.

Anyway, any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
R

Site Admin Joined: Aug 17, 2003 Posts: 12397

What version are you using? Has it been Patched?
Enabled error reporting and checked your error log?

Private Joined: Jul 18, 2003 Posts: 35

Depending on your service providers installation, you may need to add this line to your .htaccess file:

Code:

php_value allow_url_fopen on

I have urls opening in my site (Moreover.com stuff) and it works fine. Note that I did have to create a custom block to get it to display properly but that was pretty basic.