Already commment the plg but this is a great Joomla addon!

Kudos to kksou!

I installed the plug, and now what to do to the Apple Menu, Accordion style to work in Joomla!

Hi Marylka,

1. Create a new content item or article.

2. Copy and paste the following text into the content:

{Accordion_Menu_Apple_style}
<a href="http://www.site1.com">General</a>
- <a href="url1">Introduction</a>
- <a href="url2">Unique Features</a>
- <a href="url3">How to Use</a>
- <a href="url4">Demo</a>
<a href="http://www.site1.com/links">Links</a>
- <a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a>
- <a href="http://www.yahoo.com">Yahoo</a>
- <a href="http://www.joomla.org/">Joomla</a>
- <a href="http://www.kksou.com/php-gtk2/Joomla/Accordion-Menu-Apple-style-module.php#demo">Demo</a>
{/Accordion_Menu_Apple_style}

3. Load the content item. Did you see the menu?

4. Once the menu is working, you can add the rest of the text to the content. You can also add the float:left or float:right attribute so that the menu floats to the left or right of the paragraph.

Regards,
/kksou

Hi Marylka,

Oops, just realized this is the module, not the plugin.

For the module,

1. Go to module manager and click on "Accordion Menu Apple style module".

2. In the Parameters area, copy and paste the following into the parameter "content":
{Accordion_Menu_Apple_style}
<a href="http://www.site1.com">General</a>
- <a href="url1">Introduction</a>
- <a href="url2">Unique Features</a>
- <a href="url3">How to Use</a>
- <a href="url4">Demo</a>
<a href="http://www.site1.com/links">Links</a>
- <a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a>
- <a href="http://www.yahoo.com">Yahoo</a>
- <a href="http://www.joomla.org/">Joomla</a>
- <a href="http://www.kksou.com/php-gtk2/Joomla/Accordion-Menu-Apple-style-module.php#demo">Demo</a>
{/Accordion_Menu_Apple_style}

3. Make sure you have enabled the module and publish the module to a module position of your choice.

4. Save and close the module. Now reload the page. Did you see the module display the menu?

Regards,
/kksou

I have already installed the module, now I can not deal with the setting of this code into my web page.

Hi Marylka,

Would you mind elaborate a bit more what do you mean by "I can not deal with the setting of this code into my web page"?

I've outlined 4 steps above. Which step is getting problem? And what's the problem? Any error message?

Need a bit more clues to be able to address your issue more relevantly.

Regards,
/kksou

Hi,

I am impressed with this mod and i have encountered a minor difference with the highligting of the links. In IE it works as it should, but in FF the links dont light up when i move the mouse over it.

Is there a solution for this ?

Greetz, Jack

i was just wondering if there is the same module but instead of inputing the menu items it will automatically get the menu items from the menu manager, where you can choose from main menu and etc...

Hi Chris,

As I've highlighted in the article where you downloaded the plugin, the original code is not written by me. What I've done is to wrap this into a Joomla plugin/module so that you can use this in Joomla.

The original code does not do what you have in mind. You might want to send a note to the original author and ask them if they can do it for you.

Regards,
/kksou

Firstly, this is fantastic. Best of the all the Joomla modules i have seen and first i have been able to implement easily.

Buy I have a challenge. I will like to remove the authors label below the accordion. I want to state here that my intention is not to discredit the author's work. But i will like not to display it because i am using the accordion on a corporate organization's website.

Hi kksou, as youŽll see on my site: www.tintaa.com.ar/site/ I canŽt make the menu look like the one you have here at the demo page. I mean, I want all of the headers toghether with no vertical spaces in between, also, the white background of submenues is wider than the header. Coul you please take a look and tell me what do I have to chage to get the same aspect of your demo menu? Thank you! (SOrry for my english, writing from Argentina)

Hi kksou, as youŽll see on my site: www.tintaa.com.ar/site/ I canŽt make the menu look like the one you have here at the demo page. I mean, I want all of the headers toghether with no vertical spaces in between, also, the white background of submenues is wider than the header. Coul you please take a look and tell me what do I have to chage to get the same aspect of your demo menu? Thank you! (SOrry for my english, writing from Argentina)

Hello, your module is very interesting but I have a problem that persists:
I can not have all the menus closed the opening page. There is always a menu open.

Please refer to: the following post

Regards,
/kksou

i have install the module and plugin, insert the syntax code but it's only show the module. it's not dropping down when i point my mouse to the menu.
Try to my a fresh joomla installation and it works.
Can u tell me what went wrong?
If it is plugin conflict then what plugins used to be conflicted to this plugin? is there any solution to fix this without disable other plugins?

Regards,
kei

First of all, really compliments: your gadget is super cool!
Then a question: since I'm using "ADS Manager" and my menu is dynamic depending of the categories, I was wondering if it was possible to let the module read the "content" instead of the parameter "Content", from an XML file, or better, from the result of a PHP file that I build dynamically fetching the categories from the ADS Manager table...
What/where shall I change in the module code?
Thanks in advance
Marco

Hi Marco,

I assume you are familiar with PHP.

1) First, make sure you read everything in the page:
www.dynamicdrive.com - Apple style Accordion Menu

2) Then edit the file: ddAccordionMenu.lib.php
in the folder: plugins\content\ddaccordion

3) Go to line 47. You should see:
function process_menu($str) {
Change this function to suit your needs. Make sure you dynamically generate the menu items in accordance to the format as described in (1)

Regards,
/kksou

Hi kksou,
thank you for the help.
Unfortunately my PHP is not that great, but I developed something that you can maybe find interesting: a dynamic menu that keeps the menu items from the standard menu tool.
Basically if you build the menu named "xyz" with the normal tool in Joomla, it interrogates the db to fetch these records and build the menu items dynamically.
It's "permission dependent" (if the user logged in or not).
It's enough to write in the parameters:

Of course I meant, it's enough to write in the parameters:
{Accordion Menu Apple style}
xyz
{/Accordion Menu Apple style}

(replacing blanks " " with underscores "_"!) ;-)

Hi Marco,

Yes, I'm sure many people will find this useful.

If you are willing to share, please email the code to me and I'll incorporate your code into the plugin.

Warm Regards,
/kksou

This menu is wonderful! Thank you so much!
But i have a problem:
the menu is expanding correctly in FF,
but does not expand at all in IE8, even in compatibility mode.
Do you suggest something for this issue?
Thanks in advance