Support Thread for Product Description Pop-Ups

This the support thread for a mod allowing the store owner to onces again add a popup window to any text being edited by CKEditor or TinyMCE.

It is compatible with Zen Cart 1.5.X through 2.2.0 but will NOT work with older browsers, especially Internet Explorer (IE)

I will post the plugin link when approved.

Meanwhile, it is available for download at https://github.com/dbltoe/product_description_popups

Version 2.0.0 is out. It's now an encapsulated plugin for Zen Cart 1.5.8 through 3.0.0 and PHP 7.4 through 8.5.

It puts the "open this link in a pop-up window" choice back in the editor, for just the links you pick. That choice went away when Zen Cart moved on from CKEditor 4.

• CKEditor 5 (Zen Cart 2.1 and up): the link box has an Open in Pop-Up Window switch.
• TinyMCE (Zen Cart 2.2 and up): choose Open in Pop-Up Window from the link dialog's Class list.
• CKEditor 4 (1.5.8 and 2.0): use the Target tab's popup window, as before.
• Plain text: add class="image-popup" to the link yourself.

It's offered on the product, category, define page, EZ-Page and banner editors, and no core files are changed.

Also new:

• PDFs and pages now open in the pop-up window. In version 1 they showed a broken image.
• Links added after the page loads (tabs, quick views) work too.
• If a browser blocks the pop-up, the link opens normally instead of showing an alert.

Upgrading from version 1: delete includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/jscript/jscript_popup.js from every template you copied it into, then install from Modules > Plugin Manager. Links you already marked with class="image-popup" keep working.

Version 2 needs Zen Cart 1.5.8 or later. On 1.5.7 and earlier, keep using version 1.

Download: https://github.com/dbltoe/product_description_popups/releases/tag/v2.0.0

The Plugins Library release is waiting for review: https://www.zen-cart.com/plugins/product-description-pop-up-vb2427