eBook 'Look Inside' feature?

[Landysim]

I just needed a fast and easy way to add a popup window. Any where that I could place a link.

Just for easy setup I place this file in includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/common/popup.php
But you can place it anywhere you want you just have to add the path to the include statment.
Just copy the code below and save it as popup.php

<?php
/**
* popup.php
* @copyright Copyright (C) 2005 - 2008 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved.
*
* Standards Compliant Popup Script
* Author : Kevin Cannon
* http://www.multiblah.com
* Last Edited: 12.12.2004
* Version 1.0
*
* SkipWater adapted for zen cart 10.15.09
*
* Searches through a document for links with the class popup.
* When clicked, this link will open in a popup window.
* This means you don't have to add javascript to your code, 
* and means the links continue to work, for search engines, 
* and browsers without javascript.
*
*/
?>

<script type="text/javascript">

function initPopups() {

    if (!document.getElementById) return
    var aLinks = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
    for (var i = 0; i < aLinks.length; i++) {        
        if (aLinks[i].className == 'popup') {
            
            aLinks[i].onclick = function() {
                var url = this.href;
                openPopup(url);
                return false;
            }    
        }
    }
}

// popupWindow function
// This is where you set your specific height & width etc... for your popups.

function openPopup(url) {    
    window.open(url, 'popupwindow', 'width=640,height=500,scrollbars,resizable'); 
    return false;
}

// Piggy-back fucntion onto onLoad event
function addLoadEvent(func) {
  var oldonload = window.onload;
  if (typeof window.onload != 'function') {
    window.onload = func;
  } else {
    window.onload = function() {
      oldonload();
      func();
    }
  }
}

addLoadEvent(initPopups);

</script>

Add this include link to your includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/common/html_header.php just before </head> tag.

<?php include("popup.php"); ?>

To call the popup with a link

<a class="popup" href="path_to_it/pdf_file.pdf">A PDF File or any file you want in the popup window</a> 

That's it

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Skip. I am very new to this coding thing and I am not getting this right somehow. I followed all instructions and I still can't get it right. One thing I noticed my template do not has a html_header.php file inside of commons so I copied it from another template (maybe that is the problem?) But still here is the code I am adding (this is a sample code I am using to try to get it right) ...For a complete review of the Spanish Verbs<a class="popup"href="download/SpanishVerbsforDummies.pdf"> Click here</a>...
I have my pdf file loaded inside of download, I created the popup.php file and I added the code to the html_header.php
I get a popup window saying ...Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

The url I am working on is http://halifaxspanishlessons.com/tra...page=page&id=5 but it is password protected. let me know please if you can help me with this. thanks..

[skipwater]

The url I am working on is http://halifaxspanishlessons.com/tra...page=page&id=5 but it is password protected. let me know please if you can help me with this. thanks..

The include header info looks OK but with the password protected pdf. I can not tell anything else.

You might want to setup a non-protected pdf file for testing and see how that works.

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[dontolmanusa]

hi Skipwater,

love your fix for this. exactly what I'm looking for. BUT I'm a newbie! I've created a folder (pdf_files) within my Includes folder, uploaded by abbreviated pdf file to it, created the pop-up.php within my common folder. my template does not have the html_header.php folder but does have tpl_header.php wherein I placed your line of code "<?php include("popup.php"); ?> " just before the </div> command near the end of the file. then I used your code as the link in my product description, substituting the path to it as follows:

<a href="/public_html/pdf_files/AncientEpicuresPreview.pdf" class="popup">CLICK HERE for a look inside</a>

yet when I click on the link, I get a 404 error file not found.

can you tell what I'm doing wrong? is my placement of the include code in the wrong place within the tpl_header file? sure appreciate any assist you can give!

[skipwater]

hi Skipwater,

I've created a folder (pdf_files) within my Includes folder, uploaded by abbreviated pdf file to it

<a href="/public_html/pdf_files/AncientEpicuresPreview.pdf" class="popup">CLICK HERE for a look inside</a>

yet when I click on the link, I get a 404 error file not found.

You are requesting the file from /public_html/pdf_files/AncientEpicuresPreview.pdf

But you say your file is here? /public_html/includes/pdf_files/AncientEpicuresPreview.pdf


<a href="/public_html/includes/pdf_files/AncientEpicuresPreview.pdf" class="popup">CLICK HERE for a look inside</a>

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[dontolmanusa]

oops! I lied. the pdf_files folder is not within the "includes" folder. it is a folder within public_html

[skipwater]

oops! I lied. the pdf_files folder is not within the "includes" folder. it is a folder within public_html

You have saved popup.php into this folder
/includes/templates/template_default/common/popup.php

And you added this code

<?php include("popup.php"); ?>

into /includes/templates/template_default/common/html_header.php

<?php include("popup.php"); ?> 
</head>
<?php // NOTE: Blank line following is intended: ?>

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[dontolmanusa]

template has no html_header.php folder but does have tpl_header.php wherein I placed your line of code "<?php include("popup.php"); ?> " just before the </div> command near the end of the file. is this a good place for it?

are you saying that b/c I placed popup.php in the includes folder, the pdf folder needs to be in the includes folder, as well?

sure appreciate your advice! and I sure don't understand why they have not yet included this "look inside" as part of the whole package yet. everyone wants to "look inside"

[skipwater]

template has no html_header.php folder but does have tpl_header.php wherein I placed your line of code "<?php include("popup.php"); ?> " just before the </div> command near the end of the file. is this a good place for it?

are you saying that b/c I placed popup.php in the includes folder, the pdf folder needs to be in the includes folder, as well?

sure appreciate your advice! and I sure don't understand why they have not yet included this "look inside" as part of the whole package yet. everyone wants to "look inside"

The <?php include("popup.php"); ?> statement must be before the ending </header> tag. Is there a header tag in tpl_header.php? If not you have to fined the file that contains the <header> tags.

After that you must place popup.php in the same folder. That the file you added <?php include("popup.php"); ?> to.

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[dontolmanusa]

well, unfortunately, I just can not locate a file with those tags in it. I've driven myself crazy trying to find it. even opening the web page, right-clicking & viewing the page source, there's no <header> tag. am I just blind? http://dontolmanstore.com/

[skipwater]

well, unfortunately, I just can not locate a file with those tags in it. I've driven myself crazy trying to find it. even opening the web page, right-clicking & viewing the page source, there's no <header> tag. am I just blind? http://dontolmanstore.com/

Under admin->Tools->Developers Tool Kit

At the bottom of page:
Look-up in all files enter: shopping cart program by
All Files Look-ups: select All files - Catalog/Admin
File type: php only

Search

That should give you a list of three files
html_header.php should be in the list.

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