How to open a 600x400 pop up window, and show a static .html file, from a theme .phtml file?

Question

I'm using Magento 1.9 with the latest version of Ultimo Theme.

We used to use FancyBox to show some static .html files, from template .phtml files. But that does not work anymore, after upgrading to latest version of Ultimo Theme.

Is there any other way to show a simple static .html file, in a 600x400 popup window in Magento 1.9, using the Ultimo Theme?

Thanks,

Answer 1

There are multiple way to show content in popup.

• You can used Jquery Ajax or Prototype script to fetch the content of that static file and display content in popup.
• Put that static content in either CMS Block or CMS page and called that block direct in popup.

For static block use this code :

echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock('cms/block')->setBlockId('block_identifier')->toHtml();

For CMS page use this code :

$page = Mage::getModel('cms/page');
$page->setStoreId(Mage::app()->getStore()->getId());
$page->load('CMS-IDENTIFIER-HERE','identifier'); //EDIT IN THIS LINE
$helper = Mage::helper('cms');
$processor = $helper->getPageTemplateProcessor();
echo $html = $processor->filter($page->getContent());

• Put that static content in new .phtml file and call that new file using this code.

echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock('core/template')->setTemplate('folder/myphtml.phtml')->toHtml();

Choose method according to your requirement.