[RESOLVED] Modalbox popup with php variables sent in URL

[Ness_du_Frat]

Hi people !
I'm trying to do a popup using modalbox (http://www.wildbit.com/labs/modalbox/). The point is having a nice AJAX popup with some cool effects, rather than a simple JS popup.
The popup opens when the user clicks on a link, and it returns a page which will display some text according to the parameters sent in the url.

My url looks like something like this :
page.php?id=1

Then, the page.php is something like that :

$getid = $_GET['id'];

$auteurname = mysql_result(mysql_query("SELECT auteur FROM bioauteurs WHERE ID='$getid'",$connection),0);
$auteurbio = mysql_result(mysql_query("SELECT bio FROM bioauteurs WHERE ID='$getid'",$connection),0);

echo "<h2 class=\"auteur\">".$auteurname."</h2>";
echo "<p class=\"biographie\">".$auteurbio."</p>"; 

My main problem is that my modalbox doesn't work at all. It opens, doesn't display any content, and content is then opened in another page.

Why is it so ? Is it not possible to pass php parameters in AJAX using a simple method ?

Here is what I did :

<a href="page.php?id=1" title="Simple form" onclick="
Modalbox.show(this.href, {title: this.title, width: 600}); return false;
"> Test page</a>

I attached the modalbox scripts, if somebody wants to take a look.

Any help would be great. I've been working on this for two days, trying to find info on the net, and I couldn't grab anything that would work

[davidbalt]

You may need to stop the event from propagating. Try not to use the inline onclick and instead bind the click function from a script block (appearing lower on the page so that you know the link in question has loaded by then)

try this:

myLink.click = function(e){
e = window.event ? window.event : e;
e.preventDefault();
// now do your other stuff.

};

This should hopefully stop the browser from activating the link. If it still doesn't work, investigate your modal library more, it may have issues or a special way to do what you want.

[Ness_du_Frat]

Yeah, but the link should be activated. The problem is that the parameters are not taken into account when the link is sent...

[Ness_du_Frat]

Actually, a chain of problems was preventing this to work, but it finally worked the way I did it first.
The problem was with the scriptaculous file, as well as with the page's doctype (no idea why).

[crazycat503]

how did you solve it please?