Why won't firefox open my link unless I select open in new window.

[Ohio Guy]

I have a php script that opens new pages when you select next page which in the first page says sign up now.

 

However, in firefox, it will not open a new page. It will open the same page even if the script has the new page. However, if I right click and select open in new page, it will open the page.

 

This is the first part of the script.

<?

 

//get _GET

$step = $page;

 

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// Sign Up Ad, gives details about signing up etc...

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

if ($step=="signup1") {

$cost = $cfg ["monthly_cost"];

echo "<div align=center><h1>Sign up here<BR><font size=2><B>Local Business Section.</font></h1><B><font size=4> Get a membership which allows you to post an unlimited number of coupons for one year.<p>

<table width=65%><div align=left>

You have complete control over your coupons and advertising.<UL>

 

<LI>No more misprinted coupons with the wrong phone number, wrong product, or wrong price.

<LI>Make your changes instantly.

<LI>Make your special offer available immediately.

<LI>When coupons expire, they are removed automatically.

<LI>Have your own page with your coupons on it.</div></table>

<P>";

 

echo "<a href='http://www.couponfile.net/couponscript5/couponsite/index.php?page=signup2'><font size=5><B> Sign Me Up Now >>  </a><br></div>";

 

 

}

 

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// Signup primary form, info goes into 'users' table

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

if ($step=="signup2") {

 

//title

echo "<h2>Account Creation</h2>";

 

//Post Variables I

$username= mysql_escape_string(stripslashes($_POST ["username"]));

$pass1= $_POST ["pass1"];

$pass2= $_POST ["pass2"];

$first= trim($_POST ["first"]);

$last = trim($_POST ["last"]);

 

//Post Variables II

$address1= trim($_POST ["address1"]);

$address2= trim($_POST ["address2"]);

$city= trim($_POST ["city"]);

$state= trim($_POST ["state"]);

$country= trim($_POST["country"]);

$zip= trim($_POST ["zip"]);

$phone1= trim($_POST ["phone1"]);

 

You can see that it has a link to signup2, but when you place the cursor on the link, it will say signup1. If you open it in a new window, it opens signup2.

 

How do I correct this problem in firefox. IE is fine.

 

Thanks,

Tom

[cags]

I'm not sure it's going to help any but it might. The code you have would be considered 'bad practice' in more than a few ways. Firstly it requires the server to have short_open_tags enabled and by the looks of it register_globals also. Whilst these are probably not the best idea, I'm not sure they could cause the problem you have. I guess it could be the HTML and the way it's being parsed. Ignoring the fact your using capitalized tags which I know alot of people hate, you don't have closing tags for your <b> or <li> tags, it would be a good idea to use http://validator.w3.org/ to check your code as if your code isn't validated getting different bahavior in different browsers is extremely likely.

 

Having said all this I tested your code (after fixing the open tag to <?php and replacing $step = $page; with $step = $_GET['page']. And it works fine on FF 3.5.3.

[Ohio Guy]

Thank you for you help. I will try to correct the html code to see if that helps.

 

I bought the php script and am trying to learn more about php so I can make changes.

 

Tom

[Ohio Guy]

I'm not sure it's going to help any but it might. The code you have would be considered 'bad practice' in more than a few ways. Firstly it requires the server to have short_open_tags enabled and by the looks of it register_globals also. Whilst these are probably not the best idea, I'm not sure they could cause the problem you have. I guess it could be the HTML and the way it's being parsed. Ignoring the fact your using capitalized tags which I know alot of people hate, you don't have closing tags for your <b> or <li> tags, it would be a good idea to use http://validator.w3.org/ to check your code as if your code isn't validated getting different bahavior in different browsers is extremely likely.

 

Having said all this I tested your code (after fixing the open tag to <?php and replacing $step = $page; with $step = $_GET['page']. And it works fine on FF 3.5.3.

 

I made the changes that you made ( replacing $step = $page; with $step = $_GET['page'].), but it still does the same thing except that now it won't work when I open a new window.

 

I also added the close tags in the html.

 

Here is the new code.

<?php

 

//get _GET

$step = $_GET['page'];

 

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// Sign Up Ad, gives details about signing up etc...

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

if ($step=="signup1") {

$cost = $cfg ["monthly_cost"];

echo "<div align=center><h1>Sign up here<BR><font size=2><B>Local Business Section.</font></h1><B><font size=4> Get a membership which allows you to post an unlimited number of coupons for one year.<p>

<table width=65%><div align=left>

You have complete control over your coupons and advertising.</b><UL>

 

<LI>No more misprinted coupons with the wrong phone number, wrong product, or wrong price.</li>

<LI>Make your changes instantly.</LI>

<LI>Make your special offer available immediately.</LI>

<LI>When coupons expire, they are removed automatically.</LI>

<LI>Have your own page with your coupons on it.</li></ul></div></table>

<P>";

 

echo "<a href='http://www.couponfile.net/couponscript5/couponsite/index.php?page=signup2'><font size=5><B> Sign Me Up Now >>  </a><br></div>";

 

 

}

 

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// Signup primary form, info goes into 'users' table

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

if ($step=="signup2") {

 

//title

echo "<h2>Account Creation</h2>";

 

 

 

[nicephotog]

put these two metas into the head of your html output in that script.

 

<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">

 

and for this second you will need to a little with the PHP date function to print it/fill in the time/date section correctly at the moment it generated the response to the user.(example)

<META HTTP-EQUIV="expires" CONTENT="Wed, 26 Feb 1997 08:21:57 GMT">

[Ohio Guy]

Thank you for the help. I will check this out.

 

Tom

 

put these two metas into the head of your html output in that script.

 

<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">

 

and for this second you will need to a little with the PHP date function to print it/fill in the time/date section correctly at the moment it generated the response to the user.(example)

<META HTTP-EQUIV="expires" CONTENT="Wed, 26 Feb 1997 08:21:57 GMT">

[Ohio Guy]

Thank you for the help. I will check this out.

 

Tom

 

put these two metas into the head of your html output in that script.

 

<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">

 

and for this second you will need to a little with the PHP date function to print it/fill in the time/date section correctly at the moment it generated the response to the user.(example)

<META HTTP-EQUIV="expires" CONTENT="Wed, 26 Feb 1997 08:21:57 GMT">

 

I tried this and I still have the same problem. The Firefox browser will not go to the signup2 from signup1 using the link. It will only go to signup 2 if I put the url in the url section of the browser manually. It works fine in IE.

 

Thanks,

Tom