How to force a pop page?

[landysaccount]

Hello everyone.

 

I currently have a small wisp with NoCatSplash on the router. When a client tries to access a page they get a splash page where they have to press a button to authenticate and pass to the internet. Is an open/public splash page, no real user authentication with username and password. This happens every six hours. Once the client presses the button they get redirected to the page it requested. Here, I record the ip address, time they "logged in". Now, what I need is to be able to have a pop up page along with the requested page to those clients that haven't make their payment on time.

 

I tried doing this on the actual splash page but, is written in perl and I can't embed php into a perl script. Any idea on how I can add that little feature to the splash page or a way on how to just force a pop up page every certain time during the client's browsing to remind client of the payment?

 

Thanks in advanced for your help.

[RussellReal]

I'm not quite sure how you'd do this in perl.. but.. echo some javascript which will open up the pop up window

[landysaccount]

Can I send javascript before the header() function?

 

Since after the user clicks the enter button it gets redirected to a certain page with the header().

[RussellReal]

you can echo a true or false value.. to javascript..

 

like this

 

echo "<script type='text/javascript'> awaitingPayment = {$awaitingPayment}; </script>";

 

and in the enter button put

 

onClick="checkForPayment()"

 

 

and then..

 

function checkForPayment() {

if (awaitingPayment) {

// open window here

}

// do whatever your old onClick function did..

}

[landysaccount]

This is what splash.php looks like:

 

<form method="POST" action="$action">

        <input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="http://192.168.2.1/splash/check_status.php?requestedPage=$redirect">

        <input type="hidden" name="requestedPage" value="$redirect">

        <input type="hidden" name="accept_terms" value="yes">

        <input type="hidden" name="mode_login">

        <input type="submit" class="button" value="Entrar a la Red...">

    </form>

 

 

The action script is a perl script that is ran by NoCat to allow access to the user. What I do here is that I force that script to check_status.php.

 

Here's what the check_status.php looks like:

    if ( $_SERVER["HTTP_CLIENT_IP"] )            $ip = $_SERVER["HTTP_CLIENT_IP"];

    else if( $_SERVER["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"] )  $ip = $_SERVER["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"];

    else if( $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] )            $ip = $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];

    else                                          $ip = "UNKNOWN";

       

    $mac = `sudo arp -i eth1 $ip | grep : | awk '{print $3}'`;

 

    //record visit

    $query = "insert into network_access ( ip, mac, timevisit ) values ( '$ip', '$mac', " . time() . " )";

 

    $result = dba_connect( $query, 1 ) or

              die( "Query: '$query', failed with error message: -- " . mysql_error() . " --" );

    // end visit record

   

    // check if is a company address

    $query = "select * from private_ip where priv_ip_address='$ip'";

    $result = dba_connect( $query, 1 ) or

                      die( "Query: '$query', failed with error message: -- " . mysql_error() . " --" );

    // immediately send private ip's to the requested page

    if( mysql_num_rows( $result ) >= 1 ){

      $location = "Location: " . $_REQUEST['requestedPage'];

      header("$location");

      exit;

    }

   

    $query = "select dhcp_cust_id as id from dhcp where dhcp_ip='$ip'";

    $result = dba_connect( $query, 1 ) or

                      die( "Query: '$query', failed with error message: -- " . mysql_error() . " --" );

   

    // if there isn't any match here then the user is not registered.

      if( mysql_num_rows( $result ) == 0 ){

      $location = "Location: ./notregistered_mesg.php";

      header("$location");

      exit;

    }

    $row = mysql_fetch_array( $result );

   

    $query = "select customer_status as status from customer where customer_id=" . $row["id"];

    $result = dba_connect( $query, 1 ) or

                      die( "Query: '$query', failed with error message: -- " . mysql_error() . " --" );

   

    $row = mysql_fetch_array( $result );

   

    if( $row["status"] == "SUSPENDIDO" ){

      header("Location: ./suspended_message.php");

      exit;

    }

    else

    {

      $location = "Location: " . $_REQUEST['requestedPage'];

      header("$location");

    }

 

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So, what I would like to do is run another script before the header that would check if the user has a pending balance to remind them with a pop up window and still let them continue with their requested page..

[landysaccount]

I still can't figure this out.

 

Please help.