Openning web pages project

netpumber · December 14, 2009

Halo out there! So listen to my story..

I want to make a web page that will do these simple things . It only for personal use so i have to tell you that i use Firefox if that info is useful. Ok.. lets continue.

It wil have an array like below

var myArray = [ 'http://www.google.com', http://www.bing.com', 'http://www.yahoo.gom'];

now i want these sites that are in array page open them automatically in a new tabs after one minute each of them.

E.g when i open this page with firefox , after a minute a new tab will be created and http://www.google.com loaded . After one minute do the same with bing.com and so on... This project as i can imagine needs a timer but for now i need your help on how to make it open in new tabs the array's items..

Thanks for any answer!

optikalefx · December 14, 2009

set firefox to open new windows as tabs

set a global counter var

var counter = 0;

then use javascript to setTimeout('openPage()',60000);

then the function

function openPage() {

window.open(myArray[counter]);

counter ++;

}

now just wrap this all in a for loop.

for (var i=0;i<=myArray.length;i++) {

// do the timeout here

}

You could also not have the global counter, and pass in the index of i as you loop. (probably more efficient)

netpumber · December 15, 2009

Thanks for your answer my friend optikalefx but i am little new in javascript coding.. So here is what i have :

<script type='text/javascript'>

var counter = 0;
var myArray = [ 'http://www.google.com', http://www.bing.com', 'http://www.yahoo.gom'];

//function creation
function openPage() {
  window.open(myArray[counter]);
counter ++;
}

</script>

I didn understand what exactly to put in the for loop and that you say "then use javascript to setTimeout('openPage()',60000);"

Can you be more specific to understand better ? Thanks a lot my friend and sorry for my english !

optikalefx · December 16, 2009

Basically you want to find the length of the array, and loop through the array, and then for each index in the array, you want to set a timeout for 1 minute which is 60,000 miliseconds.

so

for(var i=0;i<=myArray.length;i++) {

setTimeout("openPage('+myArray+')",60000);

}

so now your are passing the current value of the loop as a string to the function. This will launch after 60 seconds, again untested.

function openPage(page) {

window.open(page);

}

netpumber · December 16, 2009

Is this :

<script type='text/javascript'>


var myArray = [ 'http://www.google.com', http://www.bing.com', 'http://www.yahoo.gom'];

for(var i=0;i<=3;i++) {
  setTimeout("openPage('+myArray+')",60000);
}


function openPage(page) {
   window.open(page);
}

</script>

And in for loop the myArray.length is just a number as i put it here or something like this myArray.3 ?

I run the above script but didnt worked..:s

netpumber · December 16, 2009

So.. i said to try first without setTimeout and run this but didnt worked too

var myArray = [ 'http://www.google.com', http://www.bing.com', 'http://www.yahoo.com'];




for(var i=0;i<=3;i++) {
  window.open('+myArray[i]+');
}

optikalefx · December 17, 2009

tested and working. You need to have popup blocking OFF for window.open to work.

<html>
<head>
<script type='text/javascript'>
function openPages() {
var myArray = [ 'http://www.google.com', 'http://www.bing.com', 'http://www.yahoo.com'];
for(var i=0;i<=myArray.length-1;i++) {
	setTimeout("openPage('"+myArray[i]+"')",2000*i);
}
}	


function openPage(page) {
window.open(page);
}

</script>
</head>
<body onload="openPages()">
</body>
</html>

netpumber · December 17, 2009

Oh!! Thanks a lot my friend..

netpumber · January 15, 2010

Ok.. I have one more question. Is it possible to make this script when it is opens the new tab close the old one ? e.g Lets say that we have these sites:

http://www.google.com

http://www.bing.com

http://www.yahoo.com

First it opens the google and after some time it opens the bing. I want when it opens the bing tab close the tab with google..and so on.. when it opens the yahoo tab close the bings tab. Is this possible or not ? Thanks in advanced..

godsent · January 16, 2010

try

window.opener='x';
window.close();

netpumber · January 16, 2010

I don't think that this works.. I ll put it in the fuction under window.open(page); but nothing happened..

netpumber · January 18, 2010

Any other idea ?

optikalefx · February 1, 2010

myWin = window.open('');

myWin.close();

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