Important: If you're using Joomla 1.5.8, please refer to the article:
How to enter HTML tags, javascript and PHP codes in Joomla 1.5.8?
Otherwise you might find that all your HTML tags, Javascript and PHP scripts will be removed the moment you click the Save or Apply button.

Please refer to the following:

• How to use the "Accordion Menu Apple style" plugin
• Customizing the menu with CSS
• Variations of the Menu

The syntax for both menus are exactly the same. Just remeber to replace all

{Accordion_Menu_Apple_style}
... menu items ... 
{/Accordion_Menu_Apple_style}

with:

{Glossy_Accordion_Menu}
... menu items ... 
{/Glossy_Accordion_Menu}

1. Download the plugin and unzip it into a folder.
2. From the Installers menu, select mambots. In the field "Install directory", enter the folder location (where you unzipped the file) and click Install.
3. From the Mambots menu, select Site Mambots.
4. Make sure the plugin "Glossy Accordion Menu" is published. If you see a cross in the Published column, just click on it. It will turn into a green tick.

You are now ready to use this plugin!

1. Download the plugin and unzip it into a folder.
2. From the Extensions menu, select Install/Uninstall. In the field "Install directory", enter the folder location (where you unzipped the file) and click Install.
3. From the Extensions menu, select Plugin Manager.
4. Enable the plugin "Glossy Accordion Menu" - make sure there is a green tick in the Enabled column.
5. Very Important: If you're using Joomla 1.5.8 and above, please refer to the article:
   How to enter HTML tags, javascript and PHP codes in Joomla 1.5.8?. Otherwise you might find that all your HTML tags, Javascript and PHP scripts will be removed the moment you click the Save or Apply button.

You are now ready to use this plugin!

• v1.0.2 (for Joomla 1.0) and v1.5.2 (for Joomla 1.5)
  Released October 7, 2008

You can now easily change the style of the menu (including font style, size, foreground color, background color, etc.) by editing the css file directly. The css file is located in the folder mambots/content/GlossyAccordionMenu for Joomla 1.0, and plugins/content/GlossyAccordionMenu for Joomla 1.5.

• v1.0.3 (for Joomla 1.0) and v1.5.3 (for Joomla 1.5)
  Released December 9, 2008
• Fixed the warning message "Undefined variable: module on line 43"
• Fixed the warning message "Undefined offset: 0 on line 55"

Q1: Can I have more than one menu in the same page?

A1: By right, you should have only one menu per page.

However, go ahead and try it. You can actually put two or menus in the same page. There are two "problems" here, though:

• There will be only one active menu per page. This means that suppose you have three menus. If currently one of the menu items in Menu 1 is active, you will find that both Menu 2 and Menu 3 will be collapsed. The original javascript library from www.dynamicdrive.com only keeps one active menu item per page. Hence the reason.
• You cannot set different heights for the different menus. Try it. You will know what I mean. This is because the height of the menu is defined in the css definition. All the menus use the same css style, hence they will have the same height.

User reviews   Average user ratings:    4.5   (from 6 users)

1. jolemo
   December 09, 2008 10:53am
   
   

2. ronnie
   May 05, 2009 4:08pm
   very kewl menus
   

   Hello I love these menus but I'm very new to Joomla. I installed this plugin but don't know how to make it use for default menus. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

3. Bradley D. Thornton
   June 12, 2009 1:49pm
   Yowza! Just what I needed!
   

   Fantastci plugin! Using it on almost all of my sites!

4. Pierre Allemand
   September 02, 2009 2:01am
   Basic question
   

   Thank you for all the explanations which seem very clear and precise. I am quite sure that Glossy accordion menu would work very fine on my site.
   My unique and basic question is :
   When you say "use the following syntax..." my asking is : "where ?" (I mean in what file, located where ?)
   (This is a very basic question from a very new user....)

5. Charlie Davidson
   September 03, 2009 5:12am
   Charlie Davidson
   

   I love the plugin, and the module.. i'm using this and the apple style accordion module, it works fine when i enable the plug in but it ruins my other modules.. i cant find why it does that.. it specifically screws up gk photo slider, gk news slider, accordion menu..

6. Harry Splinter
   September 15, 2009 11:20pm
   Solution to module interfering
   

   Hi there,
   
   the problem lies within the ddaccordion.js due to use of the $ variable. If you want a patched version send us an email (info@blackmonx.com)
   
   kinds.

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