Anyone good with PHP?

[Bitbyte]

Basically, I have a page with a button. If a user clicks on that button, a timer has to start and after about XX seconds, a pop-up has to be shown, making it so that the user can't click on the website anymore, so, with just the pop-up focused. After another XX seconds, the pop-up will have to vanish.

Really hope someone can help me out with this, it shouldn't be that hard, but I don't know the first thing about PHP

 

[djtaz]

Basically, I have a page with a button. If a user clicks on that button, a timer has to start and after about XX seconds, a pop-up has to be shown, making it so that the user can't click on the website anymore, so, with just the pop-up focused. After another XX seconds, the pop-up will have to vanish.

Really hope someone can help me out with this, it shouldn't be that hard, but I don't know the first thing about PHP

You wont be able to do that with PHP - you will need javascript and flash id think.
most popups are blocked these days so its harder to get around them.

 

[chuckstudios]

You'd either need Flash or some crazy-ass z-index'ing Javascript to do this. Not PHP.

 

[Bitbyte]

Yeah, been playing around with Javascript for a while, but I can't get it to stay focused though (so you can't click on the site unless you click on the pop-up).

 

[FAST6191]

The question then is how secure do you want it to be (obviously not a trivial bypass) but what about someone with adblock/noscript or someone with firebug/greasemonkey who knows how to use it?

Why not go steal look at something from one of those hosting sites or a mirror site, they often redirects with a timer which would suit your needs quite well from what you say.

As for specifics I can not really help you though, web coding is not my thing.

 

[chuckstudios]

If I remember I'll whip up some JS for this around 10ish. In fact, I'll leave this tab open to remind myself.

 

[aerowalk]

you can use javascript greybox to popup other page (make sure to disable the greybox close button)
then after x seconds, using body onload, set timeout the auto close function (refer to the api)

you need a bit knowledge of javascript though
http://orangoo.com/labs/GreyBox/

 

[Bitbyte]

Alright, thanks a lot for all the input thus far. I'll definitely look into GreyBox, that looks great

 

[chuckstudios]

Yeah, use GreyBox. It's better than anything I would have made.

 

[Bitbyte]

Hmmm, I got GreyBox installed but I can't make the close icon disappear..

*edit, Okay, I tried with the other method, I really did. But it didn't work. If someone's interested in making this, I will make it worth their while. Just PM me to get a site where you see such a script live. I just need to make something like that.

 

[aerowalk]

comment out this line in gb_scripts.js

// AJS.ACN(_57,btn);