MM_openBrWindow definition?

[OsakaWebbie]

I downloaded and installed a web tool (Coppermine Photo Gallery, if you're curious), and it looks like a very solid application. But it makes repeated calls to a Javascript function called MM_openBrWindow, which my browser claims is not defined. I did a search through the files, but that function does not appear to be defined anywhere within the code provided. The Internet is full of references to calling such a function but not much about defining it, so I'm assuming I'm missing something fundamental.

Is MM_openBrWindow a common Javascript function that I should already have somehow? The "not defined" error occurs in both IE 6.0 and Firefox 2.0.

 

[cLFlaVA]

mm_ functions are usually function dynamically generated by dreamweaver. perhaps the code you downloaded was written with dreamweaver.



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[OsakaWebbie]

Okay, if so, there is no mention that Dreamweaver would be required to use it. It's not someone's personal homegrown concoction - it's a a standalone distribution offered by SourceForge, written and updated by a team of people, thoroughly documented.

So what should I do? I tried looking for a globally used include file containing the HTML header code, so I could just add a little function (that would just call window_open - I don't know if that would be enough or not), but it wasn't that simple - the code is very complex, there is no file used by all pages, and that function is called in a number of places. There was no mention of this problem on the Coppermine support forum, and when I decided to register with that forum, the activation email was missing its message body (some bug with the engine that runs their forum, I guess), so I can't ask other Coppermine users directly. That's when I decided to turn to my trusty Tek-tips friends...

 

[cLFlaVA]

you're either missing a file, or you're pointing to the incorrect directory. hard to help without knowing any details about your app, environment, setup, etc. we can only guess so much.



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[OsakaWebbie]

My environment is PHP/MySQL, the application is the newest stable version found on coppermine-gallery.net, and I followed the installation directions they provided. The application is way too complex to try to describe its setup, directory structure, and files (plus, I didn't write it, so it would take me a long time to reverse engineer it in order to explain).

I had renamed a directory at one point, and thought that might be related to the problem, so I reinstalled the whole thing from scratch just to make sure, but there was no change. Then I used GoLive's site search function to search all the files for a definition of the function, and I didn't find it anywhere in the distribution. You can see it in action at oicjapan.org/gallery (of course you can't see the PHP code that way, but this is a Javascript question anyway). Where I noticed the problem first is when you click on a medium-sized photo to view it full-size - the window never pops up and the error console complains of MM_openBrWindow not being defined.

My original question was whether that function was something basic that I should already have somehow. You seem to be saying that's not the case, and no one else is jumping into the conversation, but it seems strange that such a well-developed package would not have what it needs.

 

[cLFlaVA]

a quick google search yielded this code for the mm_OpenBrWindow function:

function MM_openBrWindow(theURL,winName,features) { //v2.0
  window.open(theURL,winName,features);
}

you can try adding that to your javascript file and see if that helps. as for why a file would be excluded, i'm afraid only the code owner can answer that.



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[cLFlaVA]

p.s. - you are including this file:

http://www.oicjapan.org/gallery/themes/red/scripts.js

which does not exist in your file structure.



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[OsakaWebbie]

Hey, that was it! I did expect it to be something silly like that. Scripts.js did exist, but it was in the "root" gallery directory, not the themes/red directory. For some reason, (a) GoLive did not search the scripts.js file when I was looking for the function definition, (b) somehow "themes/red/" got added to the path when I was making my custom theme (perhaps when I duplicated a different theme to start from), and (c) I looked right past the link to scripts.js when I was looking through the browser's source code view for exactly that kind of thing.

Thanks!