How to turn an array of text into links? - php

Question

I have an array of texts which I have kept in an array. The array is linked to a button and when that button is pressed, I'd like to open all the links in different tabs.
e.g
if(isset($_POST["open links"]))
{
foreach($array as $item)
{
<a href="$item" target="_blank" ></a>
}
}
The links are saved on a text file from a previous form and each item in the array is just the URL. How would I go about doing this?

Answer 1

How about trying to echo them
foreach($array as $item)
{
echo('<a href="' . $item . '" target="_blank" ></a>');
}
It prints the link tags with values of $item as target.

Answer 2

How about this
<?php foreach($array as $item)
{
?>
<script>
window.onload = function(){
window.open("<?=$item?>", "_blank"); // will open new tab on window.onload
}
</script>
<?php } ?>

Answer 3

To open multiple links at the same time you will need some (basic) javascript.
Try something like this:
<?php
$array = array( 'http://www.stackoverflow.com', 'http://www.google.com');
?>
<button id="my-button">Click me</button>
<script type="text/javascript">
var links = [
<?php
foreach($array as $i => $link)
echo '"' . $link . '"' . ($i < (sizeof($array) -1)? ',' : '');
?>
];
document.getElementById("my-button").onclick = function(){
links.forEach(function(link) {
window.open(link, '_blank');
});
}
</script>
Note that Chrome popup blocker doesn't let you programmatically open multiple new tabs at once, though. (Window.open isn't working for multiple links in Google Chrome)

Answer 4

consider your link file :-
links.txt
> http://google.com http://stackoverflow.com http://facebook.com
All links with sperated by space
then php code :-
<button id="my-button">Click me</button>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.getElementById("my-button").onclick = function(){
<?php foreach($links as $link) { echo"window.open(" . $link . ", '_blank');"; } ?>
}
</script>
Some code stolen from other answers :p , but that's a good practice ! Thanks :)