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Small Hack: Improved Accordion Course Menu

Type: Small Hack

Requires: Moodle 1.9 or later

Status: Contributed

Maintainer(s): Martin Hermsen

This Module is a mod of the original Accordion Course Menu (by Mark Schumann), it adds
some major features and fixes some bugs.

New features:
* original course images added (course key, course text, guests)
* moodle roles recognition
* moodle course sort recognition
* edit function for categories
* fixed categorie order
* new jQuery version
* fixed some bugs for cross-browser-compatibility
* you can switch the accordion course menu on/off

Demo

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Download for Moodle 1.9

Record added by Martin Hermsen - Monday, November 2, 2009, 11:07 PM
Last modified - Monday, November 2, 2009, 11:41 PM

	by Zak Fleming - Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 04:20 PM
	Thanks, for the update. I have 2 questions 1. Is there a way to make it look like the orignal version? 2. Is the spacing problem fixed in IE8? Many Thanks

	by Martin Lukas - Thursday, November 5, 2009, 11:20 PM
	Hi Zak. What do you mean by 'look like the old version'? Now it's a one-column-table. For changes you have to change the html-tags in the accordion_course_menu.php. If you only want to change the style: the css is in the accordion_course_menu.php directly on top. In IE8 it's now much smoother. test on live-system: http://moodle.tfh-bochum.de Regards, ml

This looks really great!!! I am using the previous version of this menu, but I am having a problem with the new version. I do not have a diff tool to apply the changes to the index.php file, but I am assuming it is only the one line that needs to be updated.

ie: Change ...

print_whole_category_list(NULL, NULL, NULL, -1, false);

include('./theme/'. current_theme() .'/accordion_course_menu/accordion_course_menu.php');

In the block: case FRONTPAGECATEGORYNAMES:

Can you confirm that this is the only change required to the index.php file?

Seems that the only other thing to do is upload the new accordion_course_menu folder to my theme and set the front page to display "List of Categories".

The result is that I get my first category displayed, but then nothing else under it.

Any suggestions?

Rob

... ithink you have to call up your javascript and the jquery library. Pls check the documentation/readme of the "original":

"Edit your theme's header.html file and insert the following code within the <head> tags:

<script src="<?php echo $CFG->themewww .'/'. current_theme() ?>/accordion_course_menu/jquery-1.2.6.min.js"></script>

<script>

 $(document).ready(function(){

 $("dd").hide();

 $("dt a").click(function(){

 if ($(this).parent().next().is(':visible')) {

 $(this).parent().next().slideUp("slow");

 }

 else {

 $("dd:visible").slideUp("slow");

 $(this).parent().next().slideDown("slow");

 }

 return false;

 });

 });

</script>

worx?
M.

	by Martin Lukas - Monday, November 9, 2009, 06:16 PM
	copy-paste-accident of course you have to call up "jquery-1.3.2.js", not 1.2.6 ...

I am specifying jquery-1.3.2.js in the header file, but I am still getting the same results. I have the orig. version working fine. I this new version for use with specific themes only? I think the new look is very clean and professional looking, so I would love to get this working on my production site. I am not a devloper and have somewhat limited php troubleshooting skills, so could be challenging.

Rob

So far I have come across 2 problems, the first I was able to fix but now I seem to be stuck.

First: There were to locations in the accordion_course_menu.php file that the "mdl" table prefix was hard coded. I don't use "mdl" for my prefix so I had to change that.

Why not use the CFG->prefix?

Second: See error in screenshot

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() inE:\FFSMoodle\theme\FFS_custom_corners\accordion_course_menu\accordion_course_menu.phpon line76

Ideas?

Thanks,
Dustin

	by Dustin Elliott - Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 12:17 AM
	I didn't realize that my main course categories have to have sub-categories and then the sub-categories need to contain the courses for this to work. I turned of debugging and made some sub-categories for the courses and now it works perfectly! Looks very professional, nice job. Thanks, Dustin

	by Martin Hermsen - Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 01:40 AM
	Hi, oh the missing CFG Prefix was a mistake, i will fix it. But i think it works, too. regards martin p.s. : I will make a new diff patch for the act weakly.

I am still having a problem getting this working. Seems that if I remove the code that is doing the role checking it works fine. I have not looked any closer to see what the specific problem is. If anyone more familiar with the code has any ideas I would love to discuss. I am not too worried about the role checking since I don't need hidden courses to show up on the front page, but I am a bit worried that I could have broken something else without knowing it by pulling out the code.

Rob

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