Opening a new page in php on a button press - php

Question

I want a new page to be opened when a button is pressed. Here is my code so far:
<input name="newThread" type="button" value="New Discussion" onclick="window.open('Political/Thread/thread_insert.php')"/>
It fails, however, ..I think the path is incorrect, but I dont know why..cause it is the correct directory path...

Answer 1

This will open a new tab/window (depending on the user's settings):
<a class="button" href="Political/Thread/thread_insert.php" target="_blank">New Discussion</a>
To make this "a button":
a.button {
border: 1px solid #808080;
background: #a0a0a0;
display: inline-block;
padding: 5px;
}

Answer 2

Your code is correct (valid and function), you problem is the your path.
Remember that page location is the page inside the web server and relative to the current page location.
So if your web server root is for example c:\wamp\www then the web address test/test.php will look for the real page of c:\wamp\www\test\test.php. However the same address encoded into a page already in a subdirectory will be relative unless it starts with /
So from the page test/test.php in the above example the link to test/test.php will become /test/test/test.php (with a real path of c:\wamp\www\test\test\test.php)
If you have copied the link from another page somewhere this is probably the problem

Answer 3

Try the below code,
<INPUT type="button" value="Click" onClick="window.open('Political/Thread/thread_insert.php','windowname',' width=400,height=200')">

Answer 4

Try this:
<form action="Political/Thread/thread_insert.php" target="_blank" action="post">
<input name="newThread" type="submit" value="New Discussion" />
</form>
Tested and working. You can leave the action empty if you want.
Or
<form action="Political/Thread/thread_insert.php" target="_blank" action="">
<button>New Discussion</button>
</form>
But as said in one of the other answers, you better go with a link and style it like a button. Using javascript or making forms to achieve the same results is just more work and well... bad.

Answer 5

Use this
Join
class="btn
btn is the style class of the button.
And f you want a direct link to the file and not have to go into an external folder:
Join
I hope this helps

Answer 6

Add below properties to element and it will look exactly same as button
Disable text-decoration for link for better effect
align-items: flex-start;
text-align: center;
cursor: default;
box-sizing: border-box;
padding: 2px 6px 3px;
border-width: 2px;
border-style: outset;
border-image: initial;
-webkit-appearance: push-button;
-webkit-user-select: none;
white-space: pre;
text-rendering: auto;
letter-spacing: normal;
word-spacing: normal;
text-transform: none;
text-indent: 0px;
text-shadow: none;
display: inline-block;
text-align: start;
margin: 0em 0em 0em 0em;
font: 13.3333px Arial;
I know it's too late but I'm putting it for other people who is looking for the same answer

Answer 7

if(isset($_POST['myButtonName'])){
header("Location:newPage.php");
exit();
}
<form method="post" action="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]);?>">
<button style="margin-left:5px;" type="submit" class="btn btn-primary" name="myButtonName">Open</button>
</form>