I have a blog page and I’d like to create links that go to either an iFrame or popup window and display info from some of the blog tags such as {summary}, etc. My problem is that I don’t know how to construct a url so that the popup window knows it should display info from the blog page the link was on.

I assume it has something to do with creating a variable but I don’t know how to successfully pass the blog info around, especially when I have many blogs that a user can choose from on the home page.

If I had just one blog with may categories I suppose this would be simpler, but due to the nature of my site I decided that using many blogs made more sense.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

If you’re asking how to make the target of a link (i.e. the page where the link points) open in a specific frame or window, then what you want to look at is the “target=” attribute of the link tag.  For instance:

That would make the example.com site open in whatever window or frame was named “popup”.

Chris

Let me rephrase the question:

I’m showing a blog on a web page. I want to design the page so I can show the {summary} field, or any other field from the blog, in a popup window (or iFrame) that opens from a link on the original blog page.

I know how to make the popup window just fine What I don’t know how to do is to get the {summary} tag to actually display the summary info for that blog in the popup window. Currently it just shows the tag “{summary}” without actually displaying the text in the database field for that weblog entry.

I hope this explains it better, please let me know if you’d like to see an example.

Thanks.

You… display it just like you would display it in any Template in EE.  Something like:

Chris, thanks, I got that part now but there is still one big chunk of this I’m not yet grokking.

How do state in this tag which weblog I want to display the summary for? In your example the name of the blog is stated as text, not a variable

{exp:weblog:entries weblog=“yourweblog” limit=“1”}.

Other than hand coding a different template for all the dozens of blogs I have I assume there is a way to embed the name of the blog into the url on the original page so I can put that variable in this tag so the correct summary is displayed. That’s what I don’t know how to do.

Passing the name of the weblog around so it can be used in tags like this is obviously the way to do it but I just can’t figure it out. Sorry for being so dense.

Thanks

Could you use the snippets plugin to pass the variables to the popup?

I think they’re asking for the permalink tag?

So on your main page where you have a bunch of titles from a variety of weblogs, you’d have:

{exp:weblog:entries }
{title} - <a href=”{permalink=“weblog/popup”}” target=“popup”>Read more</a>
{/exp:weblog:entries}

And on the ‘popup’ template you’d have the code Chris posted, though if you are going to have multiple weblogs using the same ‘popup’ template, you can ditch the specification of the weblog:

{exp:weblog:entries limit=“1”}
{summary}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

Basically, you want a url going to the ‘popup’ page that contains either the entry ID or the url_title of a specific article- you really don’t have to specify the weblog- there are no duplicate entry ID’s or anything.  The permalink and url_title tags should give you the correct url.

IF I understood correctly!

Yep, I think rob1 has got it there.

Thanks everyone. I’m not sure if I’m there quite yet but I’ll keep plugging at this one. Hopefully I’ll get that aha! moment.