What Is Your Opinion of a PHP to JavaScript Converter?

As far as me having knowledge of one language, let alone two, I think I would have more luck teaching pigs to fly.

On a more practical note, here is the sales page for the product that I am talking about which produces a PHP script: http://www.exitsplash.com/

I provided the link here because this would give you a much better idea of what I am looking to do than I can possibly explain. Exit Splash could come off as simply an elaborate POP-UP page creator, however when combined with all of his templates and approaches, etc. my understanding (although not complete, I will admit) is that it is far more than that.

I think part of the reason why his package is so powerful is that it includes the integration of some of the bonuses he is offering, into the main product.

Anyway, that's the gist of it, so if you are aware of any Java scripts that can produce things like this without being blocked by pop-up blockers, please let me know. I would be extremely interested!

Here's the code from his page.  It should work if you copy and paste it in - it's just Javascript generated by PHP

var exitsplashalertmessage = '***************************************\n\n         > > > W A I T < < <\n\n     CLICK THE ***CANCEL*** BUTTON\n    on the NEXT Window for Something\n             VERY Special!\n\n***************************************';
var exitsplashmessage = '***************************************\n\n W A I T   B E F O R E   Y O U   G O !\n\n  CLICK THE *CANCEL* BUTTON RIGHT NOW\n     TO STAY ON THE CURRENT PAGE.\n\n I HAVE SOMETHING VERY SPECIAL FOR YOU!\n\n***************************************';
var exitsplashpage = 'http://www.exitsplash.com/exit/exit.php?hop=ehotitems';
 
function addLoadEvent(func) { var oldonload = window.onload; if (typeof window.onload != 'function') { window.onload = func; } else { window.onload = function() { if (oldonload) { oldonload(); }  func(); }}}
function addClickEvent(a,i,func) { if (typeof a[i].onclick != 'function') { a[i].onclick = func; } }
var theDiv = '<div id="ExitSplashDiv"  style="display:block; width:100%; height:100%; position:absolute; background:#FFFFFF; margin-top:0px; margin-left:0px;" align="center">';
theDiv = theDiv + '<div id="ExitCancelButtonImageDiv" style="background: #FFFFFF; width: 100%;" align="left"><img src="http://exitsplash.s3.amazonaws.com/files/exitimpactimage.gif?exit49f4f3a2c2316" border="0"></div>';
theDiv = theDiv + '<div onmouseover="this.style.background=\'#FFFFFF\'; document.getElementById(\'exitsplashlink\').style.color=\'#0000FF\'" onmouseout="this.style.background=\'#3399cc\'; document.getElementById(\'exitsplashlink\').style.color=\'#FFFFFF\'" style="padding-top:0px; padding-left:0px; margin-top:0px; margin-left:0px; background:#3399cc; width: 100%; height: 22px; text-align:right;"><span style="font-family:tahoma; font-size:12px; font-weight:bold; color:#3399cc">Increases Website Response by up to 325% in 3 days! CLICK HERE ==&gt;</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.exitsplash.com" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none;"><span id="exitsplashlink" style="font-family:tahoma; font-size:12px; font-weight:bold; color:#FFFFFF">Powered by ExitSplash</span></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</div>';
theDiv = theDiv + '<div id="exitsplashimpactaudio"><embed wmode="transparent" src="http://exitsplash.s3.amazonaws.com/player.swf?url=http://exitsplash.s3.amazonaws.com/files/exitsplash.mp3&mode=play&autostart=true&exit49f4f3a2c2316" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="1" height="1"></embed></div>';
theDiv = theDiv + '<iframe src="'+exitsplashpage+'" width="100%" height="100%" align="middle" frameborder="0"></iframe>';
theDiv = theDiv + '</div>';
theBody = document.body; if (!theBody) {theBody = document.getElementById("body"); if (!theBody) {theBody = document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0];}}
var PreventExitSplash = false;
function DisplayExitSplash(){ if(PreventExitSplash == false){ window.scrollTo(0,0);  PreventExitSplash=true; divtag = document.createElement("div"); divtag.setAttribute("id","ExitSplashMainOuterLayer"); divtag.style.position="absolute"; divtag.style.width="100%"; divtag.style.height="100%"; divtag.style.zIndex="99"; divtag.style.left="0px"; divtag.style.top="0px"; divtag.innerHTML=theDiv; theBody.innerHTML=""; theBody.topMargin="0px"; theBody.rightMargin="0px"; theBody.bottomMargin="0px"; theBody.leftMargin="0px"; theBody.style.overflow="hidden"; theBody.appendChild(divtag); return exitsplashmessage; } }
var a = document.getElementsByTagName('A'); for (var i = 0; i < a.length; i++) { if(a[i].target !== '_blank') {addClickEvent(a,i, function(){ PreventExitSplash=true; });} else{addClickEvent(a,i, function(){ PreventExitSplash=false;});}}disablelinksfunc = function(){var a = document.getElementsByTagName('A'); for (var i = 0; i < a.length; i++) { if(a[i].target !== '_blank') {addClickEvent(a,i, function(){ PreventExitSplash=true; });} else{addClickEvent(a,i, function(){ PreventExitSplash=false;});}}}
hideexitcancelbuttonimage = function(){ document.getElementById('ExitCancelButtonImageDiv').style.display='none'; }
addLoadEvent(disablelinksfunc);
disableformsfunc = function(){ var f = document.getElementsByTagName('FORM'); for (var i=0;i<f.length;i++){ if (!f[i].onclick){ f[i].onclick=function(){ PreventExitSplash=true; } }else if (!f[i].onsubmit){ f[i].onsubmit=function(){ PreventExitSplash=true; }}}}
addLoadEvent(disableformsfunc);
window.onbeforeunload = DisplayExitSplash;

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Joep,

Well, I inserted the other could end to one of my test pages and the result was not terribly good. I'm attaching a code snippet with some of what displayed on the page.

I don't know enough about this to know whether I am supposed to do something to the code before inserting it in my page or not so that could cause the issue. Like I said, this is as foreign to me as teaching a lizard to dance.

 var exitsplashalertmessage = '***************************************\n\n > > > W A I T < < <\n\n CLICK THE ***CANCEL*** BUTTON\n on the NEXT Window for Something\n VERY Special!\n\n***************************************';var exitsplashmessage = '***************************************\n\n W A I T B E F O R E Y O U G O !\n\n CLICK THE *CANCEL* BUTTON RIGHT NOW\n TO STAY ON THE CURRENT PAGE.\n\n I HAVE SOMETHING VERY SPECIAL FOR YOU!\n\n***************************************';var exitsplashpage = 'http://www.exitsplash.com/exit/exit.php?hop=ehotitems';
 
function addLoadEvent(func) { var oldonload = window.onload; if (typeof window.onload != 'function') { window.onload = func; } else { window.onload = function() { if (oldonload) { oldonload(); } func(); }}}function addClickEvent(a,i,func) { if (typeof a[i].onclick != 'function') { a[i].onclick = func; } }var theDiv = '
';theDiv = theDiv + '
';theDiv = theDiv + '
Increases Website Response by up to 325% in 3 days! CLICK HERE ==> Powered by ExitSplash
';theDiv = theDiv + '
';theDiv = theDiv + '
 
(in addition I received some messages like these:)
 
Error: Execution of this script not permitted

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Sorry, I had a play with this code and it seemed to work but it's a horrible, spammy script and I kept getting tons of popups opening so I hope you understand I don't really want to work too much on it :)

The code listed is the actual script from ExitSplash and it should work with no need for PHP.  You will need to modify the first three lines to fit your site and then paste it into a Javascript file.  You should then be able to include this Javascript file on a HTML file on your server

Joep,

I completely understand. Thanks for your effort. I'm clueless as to what would need to be done, so it's probably best to let this die quietly for now.

thanks for everything, guys.

Thanks for the assist and the points.

Good luck & have a great day