Forum link - target="_blank"

[albibak]

Hello,

I created a forum, with the option forum link. It's a link for another website.
When I click on this link, the other website opens in the current window. However I would like to know how I can get it to open in a new window (i.e. target="_blank")

Thanks for your answer.

[HiDeo]

Same problem on my test forum, no idea !!

[Marco van Herwaarden]

It is done by a piece in global.php:

PHP Code:

// #############################################################################
// Redirect if this forum has a link
// check if this forum is a link to an outside site
if (trim($foruminfo['link']) != '')
{
    // get permission to view forum
    $_permsgetter_ = 'forumdisplay';
    $forumperms = fetch_permissions($forumid);
    if (!($forumperms & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_forumpermissions['canview']))
    {
        print_no_permission();
    }
    exec_header_redirect($foruminfo['link'], true);
} 


I don't have time to look for a solution now, but this should get you going.

1 Thing is strange though (a bug??), it is passing a second parameter to exec_header_redirect (true), but this function don't take a second parameter i think.

[Paul M]

You would need to completely change the way it works, at the moment it sends an http 301 response back to re-direct the browser to the new location, hence it will not (and cannot) open a new page.

[albibak]

I don't understand :s

[harmor19]

I guess you can make your own function if that is an internal function.

just change it to

PHP Code:

 link_redirect($foruminfo['link']); 


then add this in global

PHP Code:

function link_redirect($link)
{
   global $foruminfo;

  echo "<a href='$link' target='_blank'>".$foruminfo['name']."</a>";
} 


I'm not sure "$foruminfo['name']" is correct.
I'm also not sure if that will work.

[mhackl]

This would appear to do it for all of the links, but what if you wanted to select the link target per forum?

[ragtek]

As Marco said, this is a piece of code in global.php and not a function

And, target="_blank" is no valid attribut in xhtml it's working, but not valid!