Opening new windows while using the normal menu.

A quick "how-to" guide on how to open links on your website's menu's and still keep the "classic" or "original" layout menu system…

First, connect to your FTP server and download which ever menu_left.php file for the appropriate menu…

For example, If you want to use new windows on your public website, then you would need to download <your website>/pages/menu_left.php …. For the admin center simply download the menu_left.php located in your <website>/admincenter/pages/ folder.


Once downloaded, open one in notepad (if you haven't associated .php with a text editor, simply make a shortcut to notepad where your .php files are by using the right click menu > new > shortcut then click and drag the php file over the shortcut and voilà)


Add that code BELOW this:

But ABOVE this: ('adminmenu' would change depending on the file you're editing…)


So the final version of the file should look something like this:

Now let's do it so that we can use it to open a page in a NEW window.

You'll see something like this:

Change it so it looks somewhat like so:


Now, upload the new file in the custom directory of where you got it from.

Basicly, if you got it from <your site>/pages/ then put it in <your site>/custom/
If you got it from <your site>/admincenter/pages/ then put it in <your site>/admincenter/custom/


Edit whichever menu you've just uploaded ("sidebar" or "admincenter" or whatever…)

Add something like so:


This basicly tells your browser & ocportal that it should run as a javascript. The menu_left holds the JS code/function and thus will execute whatever you told it to do (in this case, open www.website.com in a new window).

Thx man, Very useful  

Np