Hi,

I don't know PHP and would greatly appreciate if anyone can tell me the code to say this:

if this link then open in new window 

else

open in same window

My intention is to open all links leading to a particular page on my site to open in a new window and all other links to open in the same window. I can't use target_blank because I already made the links and there are just too many to go back and edit them all.

I don't think PHP is the answer in this case. PHP doesn't have any control over whether a link opens in a new window or in the same one. A browser opens a link in a new windows when it reads target="_blank" in the markup; it never sees any PHP code.

You may be able to hack together some javascript to do this, but your best bet would be to use find and replace to change all of the links to target="_blank".

Agreed with NullPointer, if you have any javascript experience (or even easier, jQuery experience) it wouldn't be that hard to append a target="_blank" to specified anchors with a common class.

However, if you don't have these targeted anchors already marked up with unique classes, or they all happen to be able to be targeted through the DOM then you really won't be saving any time vs simply going through and adding target manually.

Keep in mind some people do get annoyed with new windows opening up.

No need for jQuery though:
JavaScript:

PHP Code:

<!--end of any page-->
<script type="text/javascript">
var a = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
for (var node in a) {
   if(a[node].href == "http://my-website.com/my-page-for-new-page.php")
      a[node].target = "_blank";
}
</script> 


Pretty simple, huh?

Thanks guys and thanks wayfarer07 for the javascript. I asked the same question in yahoo answers and people there said the same thing, that php doesn't handle this sort of thing. I ended up doing a search and replace and solved the issue, but I will keep the JS in my collection in case I need it in the future.

Thanks again.