[SOLVED] PHP Location used for opening two urls

[aeafisme23]

 

I have surfed around php.net and really did not find my answer which makes me think that I may be using the wrong method about how i should do this.

 

Basically I have a drop down and when you hit submit it reads the variables to decide where its going to go. In this code if I were to select state: VA and city Richmond-Petersburg I have it redirecting to the URL http://www.thegreatestsave.org/wtvr-tgs. That works FINE. But what I want to do is for it to open two links instead of one so it opens the above link as well as Yahoo!

 

header('Location: http://www.thegreatestsave.org/wtvr-tgs');

header('Location: http://www.yahoo.com');

 

Of course I already know putting two header locations will basically just cancel the first one out and execute the second. This is where I am lost. How do i process this? Another idea i had was inserting meta redirect instead of header location but like header you cant put 2 of them back to back or one will just get canceled out by the other.

 

 

ob_start();
$state = $_GET['state'];
$city = $_GET['city'];

/* WTVR Richmond, VA */
if ($state == "VA" && $city =="Richmond-Petersburg"){
header('Location: http://www.thegreatestsave.org/wtvr-tgs');
}

/* KBCI Boise, ID */
elseif ($state == "ID" && $city =="Boise"){
header('Location: http://www.thegreatestsave.org/kbci-tgs'); 
}

etc......

 

* a small note after browsing forums to make sure this has not been answered... the url that its going to can not have code to pop up the window i want. So http://www.thegreatestsave.org/wtvr-tgs can not have a pop up that shows YAHOO because this drop down is only intended for select users to see this special pop up where the general public should only see http://www.thegreatestsave.org/wtvr-tgs unless they were to use the drop down method to get to the page.

 

Thanks

[DeanWhitehouse]

The only way i can think of doing it is having them click the links manually, e.g.

<a href='mysitelink.php'>My Site link</a>

<a href="http://exterenalsite.com" target="_blank">External site link</a>

[aeafisme23]

Let me see if i can put this another way that may be more efficient but still need help on how to accomplish it.

 

Say if I do give into just the one redirect using the header location to http://www.thegreatestsave.org/wtvr-tgs .... which works just fine but instead i use the header location link to use a query string such as http://www.thegreatestsave.org/wtvr-tgs/index.php?somevariable=showpopup this would let me keep the integrity of the initial http://www.thegreatestsave.org/wtvr-tgs for those who dont use this dropdown so they would not see a pop up.

 

Here is where I get lost now. Now i have this page http://www.thegreatestsave.org/wtvr-tgs/index.php  "INDEX.php" that I need to alter the code so I can have a pop when somevariable=showpopup.

 

index.php

<?php 
if ($somevariable == "showpopup") {
******* this is where i need a pop up (when i say pop up; new window on top of index.php so if they are to close the page they are still looking at index.php) ****
}
else.....
?>

 

Honestly after thinking about this, this is the way i need to go, but how do i accomplish the if statement to execute

 

Thanks

[DeanWhitehouse]

So you would need js to make a pop up, something like

window.open("http://google.com","myWindow","status = 1, height = 300, width = 300, resizable =  ")

 

Should do , i think

[aeafisme23]

Thanks Blade but can you put Javascript like that with in a php IF statement

if ($somevariable == "showpopup") {
window.open("http://google.com","myWindow","status = 1, height = 300, width = 300, resizable =  ")
}

 

which im assuming it would look more like this because the above would not execute anything that i know of. Put it in a .js file and then

 

if ($somevariable == "showpopup") {
<script type=javascript file=popup.js>   
}

 

Ill check this out, if you think i misintepreted you let me know so it can save me time from trial and error ( i do know that I was just winging the html script above so i know i will correct in final version.

 

Thanks

 

 

[DeanWhitehouse]

This will work

if ($somevariable == "showpopup") {
?>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.open("http://google.com","myWindow","status = 1, height = 300, width = 300, resizable =  ")
</script>
<?php
}