you sick liiitle monkeeeey!

.. don’t fix it. Today, I passed by a Duane Reade and noticed their logo had changed completely. To something really ugly. What was wrong with their old red and blue logo? This new one is very anemic and doesn’t stand out at all. It’s white on grey or grey on white. I forget which.

An About.com guide says it looks like Radio Shack’s logo and I agree.

Today I needed to pass a pop-up some PHP variables and I couldn’t remember how to do it. So after thinking about it for a few minutes and Googling some really convoluted examples, I came up with an easy and simple solution. I was making a pop-up for people’s bio’s so this example will use the names I used for my original task.

Somewhere in the body of your main page put in this function:

<script type=”text/javascript”>
<!–
function Pop(f) {
window.open( f, “popUpWindow”, “status = 0, scrollbars = 1, height = 400, width = 400, resizable = 1″ );
}
//–>
</script>

This function takes 1 argument, f, which is the filename. All the size, scrollbars, and additional popup variables at the end are optional.

To call the function and pass it variables, do this:

<a href=”#” onclick=”Pop(’bio.php?firstname=Tom&lastname=Thumb’)”>Tom Thumb’s bio</a>

In bio.php, you can use PHP’s $_REQUEST or $_GET to read in or spit out all the variables, like so:

<?
foreach ($_GET as $varname => $data) {
echo $varname.”: “.$data.”<br />”;
}
?>

If this has helped you, or you have a question or suggestion for improvement, leave a comment.