Home made tab and slider module for joomla1.5

Change Log:

Update 14, January, 2010

WOW, This extension has been approved by JED Team. Pls visit it and place you rating.

Update 8, June, 2010(Must see)

• Fixed a bug for php error, it was a typo error
• Transition parameter was missing for slider, it’s fixed now
• Download file is updated! Please reinstall or update the files only. Changes are in the mod_simplejoomlatabslider.xml, mod_simplejoomlatabslider.php and helper.php file

If you check joomla1.5.x backend(joomla1.x had same) in any component or module configuration the right col accordian slider is common. In some components u should see tab too.To make such tab and slider is just so easy !

I think you are thinking about my post title, why I used the words “home made”. Because I am going to show you how u can make such a tab/slider module for front end just using joomla own resource. Joomla gives some execillent api to make html grid, tab, slider etc within a moment. JPane is such an api to make tab and slider. Here you will get some code example about how to make tab using JPane.

[code language=”php”]
jimport(‘joomla.html.pane’);
//1st Parameter: Specify ‘tabs’ as appearance
//2nd Parameter: Starting with third tab as the default (zero based index)
//open one!
$pane = &JPane::getInstance(‘tabs’, array(‘startOffset’=>2));
echo $pane->startPane( ‘pane’ );
echo $pane->startPanel( ‘Example Panel 1’, ‘panel1’ );
echo "This is panel1";
echo $pane->endPanel();
echo $pane->startPanel( ‘Example Panel 2’, ‘panel2’ );
echo "This is panel2";
echo $pane->endPanel();
echo $pane->startPanel( ‘Example Panel 3’, ‘panel3’ );
echo "This is panel3";
echo $pane->endPanel();
echo $pane->endPane();
[/code]
note: I thinkf or editor problem sample code may be mseesed up but the download module is ok 🙂

If you check this line
$pane = &JPane::getInstance(‘tabs’, array(‘startOffset’= >2));
here first parameter is about making tab, If you want to make slider then use like this
$pane = &JPane::getInstance(‘sliders’, array(‘startOffset’= >2));
startOffset should be 0 for normal uses. For quick access just check the file \jtest\libraries\joomla\html\pane.php (windows style path here :P) for the api.

One problem is, if you want to use this tab/slider in front end u need to copy some css code from backend css file and it’s in administrator\templates\khepri\css\general.css from line 231 to line 288 and here is teh css code bellow that I found there.

[code language=”css”]
/* pane-sliders */
.pane-sliders .title {
margin: 0;
padding: 2px;
color: #666;
cursor: pointer;
}

.pane-sliders .panel { border: 1px solid #ccc; margin-bottom: 3px;}

.pane-sliders .panel h3 { background: #f6f6f6; color: #666}

.pane-sliders .content { background: #f6f6f6; }

.pane-sliders .adminlist { border: 0 none; }
.pane-sliders .adminlist td { border: 0 none; }

.jpane-toggler span { background: transparent url(../images/j_arrow.png) 5px 50% no-repeat; padding-left: 20px;}
.jpane-toggler-down span { background: transparent url(../images/j_arrow_down.png) 5px 50% no-repeat; padding-left: 20px;}

.jpane-toggler-down { border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc; }

/* tabs */

dl.tabs {
float: left;
margin: 10px 0 -1px 0;
z-index: 50;
}

dl.tabs dt {
float: left;
padding: 4px 10px;
border-left: 1px solid #ccc;
border-right: 1px solid #ccc;
border-top: 1px solid #ccc;
margin-left: 3px;
background: #f0f0f0;
color: #666;
}

dl.tabs dt.open {
background: #F9F9F9;
border-bottom: 1px solid #F9F9F9;
z-index: 100;
color: #000;
}

div.current {
clear: both;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
padding: 10px 10px;
}

div.current dd {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
[/code]

feeling boring ? heh heh.

I have made a tab/slidder module using Jpane and the above css code. It’s just and I named it “mod_simplejoomlatabslider”. If you are interested to check my module download from bellow and let me know. But pls keep in mind that, it’s just simple tab/slider module 😛 

Download

[download id=”15″]

Please click here to download.

• Download & install like any other joomla module
• Enabel this module to any module position
• Write module position name to load other modules as tab
• Publish other modules which u want to put in that above mentioned module position.

Check my screenshot of setting bellow:

thank guys 😀

Oh here another screenshot of slider style of my module