Pop-ups from Product Description

[Ryk]

I stumbled across a handy method of creating popups using CSS and you can see it in action (using Firefox -and it should work in IE7) here (place the mouse over a link in the description).

Basically what happens is that all the stuff in the pop up is contained in a <span> tag but doing that makes the product description code extremely long. What I'm trying to do is to use php to define the contents of the <span> tag and then display it using an echo statement...but I can't get it to work (if you look back at the demo, you will see that chair B works correctly from the image link, but not from the text link which is where I'm trying the echo statement.

I have taken the content of the <span> and added this line

define ('SPAN_SOMERSET_CHAIR','content goes here');

to my includes/languages/english/custom/product_info.php and placed this line

<span><?php echo SPAN_SOMERSET_CHAIR; ?></span>

in the product's description.

I suspect I'm doing something very simple wrongly, or overlooking something blindingly obvious (but I have tried adding that define to both includes/languages/english/custom/index.php and includes/languages/custom/english.php without success).

Any ideas?

[Merlinpa1969]

Rick,

are you using php tags inside of php tags,

[Ryk]

Not as far as I'm aware - I'm adding it to the product description in the usual manner through the product data entry page, with HTMLarea turned OFF.

This is the relevant section:

B. <a href="index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=69_117&products_id=474">Somerset ¾ length wooden chairs<span><?php echo SPAN_SOMERSET_CHAIR; ?></span></a><br />

With the exception of the php extension in the other links, there's no other reference to php within the description

[JollyJim]

That is very clever. But your closing </span> is showing up the tag at the end of the pop-up text. I am not sure if you can escape the / somehow but it would be worth a try.

[Ryk]

Using which browser JollyJim? I can't see that.

(BTW - you need to edit your sig as the new forum adds slashes to the old links!)

[JollyJim]

Using Firefox Version 1.05.03

Thx for the tip about my sig - will go fix it now