Pass php variable though open.window

Question

I'm pretty new to javascript so please excuse this question if it seems pretty nooby. I am writing an online calendar to book engineer's jobs so we need to be able to look at the calendar whilst looking at and editing individual jobs. After much deliberation I decided the best way to do this is by opening the jobs in a new window using window.open. However, I would like to pass the job id via the url in order to pass it to the new window but for love nor money I can't work it out or find a solution. Here is my code so far

function open_win() 
{
    window.open('job_detail.php', '_blank','toolbar=0,location=no,menubar=0,height=400,width=400,left=200, top=300');

}

<a href="#" onclick="open_win()" ><? echo $row['name']; ?></a>

The $row['name'] is the value of the link and the value I want to pass will be held in $row['id'] or $job_id. I just can't work out where to put it so it passes on.

Any help will be greatly appreciated

Ry- · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-30 23:55:54Z

3

As a parameter?

function open_win(id) {
    window.open('job_detail.php?id=' + id, '_blank','toolbar=0,location=no,menubar=0,height=400,width=400,left=200, top=300');
}

<a href="#" onclick="open_win(<?= $row['id'] ?>)"><? echo $row['name']; ?></a>

answered Aug 30, 2012 at 23:55

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3 Comments

user967451 Over a year ago

@user1267224 this is the way to do it and then OP can just retrieve the value using $_GET['id'] or $_REQUEST['id'] on the "job_detail.php" page.

tatty27 Over a year ago

Thanks for that, I tried it then then the link wouldn't do anything. I ended up using <a href="#" onclick="window.open('job_detail.php?id=<? echo $row['id']; ?>', '_blank', 'toolbar=0,location=no,menubar=0,height=400,width=400,left=200, top=300')" ><? echo $row['name']; ?></a> which did the trick

Ry- Over a year ago

@user1267224: Oh, I assumed id was an integer. If it was a string, you'd have needed to put quotes around it. But you got it fixed, so nevermind :)

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