acDIVs 1.4.3 for CMSimple

The name of this plugin belongs to "Animated Collapsible DIVs" - and that's what this plugin is thought to do: it integrates contents from a CMSimple-page in dynamic created and collapsed DIV-blocks and lets users manually toggle its appearance via a smooth "Web 2.0 style" animation.

Requirements

CMSimple or CMSimple_XH with a working Pluginloader. Recommended Pluginloader-Version is >= 2.1)
jQuery4CMSimple must be installed. You can download jQuery4CMsimple at http://cmsimple-xh.com/wiki/doku.php/plugins:jquery4cmsimple

Installation

Always make a backup of your installation before adding a new plug-in.
Unzip the archive and copy the files and folders into your plugins-folder.
It should look like this:
- [Root]
  - [(2lang)]
  - [cmsimple]
  - ...
  - [plugins]
    - ...
    - [pluginloader]
    - [acdivs]
      
      [config]
      
      [help]
      
      [languages]
      
      admin.php
      
      index.php
    - index.php
  - [...]
  - index.php

The file /plugins/acdivs/config/config.php needs to be set writable.

(To edit the languages online do the same with the language files in /plugins/acdivs/languages.)

You're ready to use the plugin!

Usage

Basics

To activate the plugin, you have to insert the CMSimple-Scripting-Call in the content:

#CMSimple $output.=acdivs('Contentpage');#

where 'Contentpage' is the heading of the subpage which holds the content of your collapsed divs.
Of course you can name this page different but it must be a subpage of the page where you want to integrate the script.
To build categorys, you should create more contentpages and add them, separated by "|", to the script:

#CMSimple $output.=acdivs('Contentpage_1|Contentpage_2');#
(Take care that no whitespaces are allowed between the brackets)

If the heading of your contentpage contains spaces, replace them by a "_" underscore. The easiest way is to call the page in the browser and copy the part of the subpages from the adressbar. This way you have the correct encoding of special characters inside the headings too.

The structure of your CMSimple-Pages should look like below:

<h1>My acDIVs Page</h1>

<h2>Contentpage 1</h2>
<h2>Contentpage 2</h2>

...

Of course "Contentpage 1" and "Contentpage 2" should be hidden from the navigation by adding
#CMSimpl hide# at the top of the page-content

If you're running CMSimple_XH you can use acDIVs together with my pd_Scripting Plugin. Here you can easy use a placeholder to put the script-output on every position at your content page. Beside this you can use page_params to hide the content pages from the navigation.
And, beside this, you can also use the new plugin-call {{{plugin:acdivs('Contentpage');}}} to integrate acDIVs.

Now you have to prepare the contents of your contentpage(s):
by default the plugin uses the <h4> heading to split the text in <div> - blocks. You can configure another <hx> - level in the configuration:

<h2>Contentpage 1</h2>
#CMSimple hide#

<h4>First heading</h4>
This is the collapsible content below the first heading.......

<h4>Second heading</h4>
This is the collapsible content below the second heading......
....

<h2>Contentpage 2</h2>
#CMSimple hide#

<h4>First heading of page 2</h4>
This is the collapsible content below the first heading.......

<h4>Second heading of page 2</h4>
This is the collapsible content below the second heading......
....

Depending on some other configuration settings, the structure above will result in an ouput like

Contentpage 1
First heading
Second heading
....

Contentpage 2
First heading of page 2
Second heading of page 2
....

on the page where you have activated the plugin.

With a click on a link its <div> below should toggle and display the contents between the clicked heading and the next heading (or the end of the page - if it's the last one ;-)).

Anchors and IDs

For better usability, the plugin adds anchors to every heading:
to create a link to the first heading "Contentpage 1", use a html-syntax like below
<a href="#acH1">test</a>
where "ac" is the plugin-prefix, "H" is meant as "heading" and "1" is the number of the heading.
So a link to the second heading "Contentpage 2" can be done with
<a href="#acH1">test</a>
and so on. You can create links to the anchors "in page", to build a table of contents, or add the anchors to the url, to jump to a section from another page.

Every created div can accesed by its own ID:
in the example above, the link "First heading" gets the ID "acDIV1", "Second heading" gets "acDIV2", ...
and "Second heading of page 2" gets "acDIV4".
You can use this IDs to expand a div by url:
<a href="your_page?your_subpage&expanddiv=acDIV3">My Link</a>
will load the page with the third div "First heading of page 2" expanded.

Of course you can combine the &expanddiv-parameter with anchors in your links:
<a href="your_page?your_subpage&expanddiv=acDIV3#acH2">My Link</a>

Configuration

There are just a few options in the Plugin Configuration:

"close link": setting to "1" will add a link to close the <div> below the opened content.
Defalt value: 0
"fade": Set to 0 to disable fade effect. Set to 1 to enable. Default: 1
"header": the <hx> level used to split the content-pages. Default: h4
"height": Set to an integer without "px" to explicitly define the height of the DIVs created by the script. Typically you would leave out this attribute altogether (so it's undefined) to let the DIV default to its natural height. Default: empty
"hide": Set to 0 to explicitly show the first DIV when the page first loads. Set to 1 to hide.
Default: 1
"image answer: & image question:" when using acDIVs as a FAQ-plugin, it's possible to add images in front the questions and answers. Place this images to your /images - folder and enter the names of the filenames to the fields
"persist": Set to 0 to disable persistence of this DIV's state within browser session. Set to 1 to enable.
Default: 0
"show header": Set to 1 to show the heading of the content page above the divs, set to 0 to hide the headings. Default: 1
"speed": Set to an integer in milliseconds to control the duration of the sliding effect (ie: 1000=1 second). Default: 600
"style": You can add an inline style-definition to every div.
Default: margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;padding: 5px;

In-page configuration

By default, every configuration of the plugin is done in the admin-backend.
But it's possible to overwrite an configuration-option with the plugin-call:
#CMSimple $output.=acdivs('Contentpage,0');#
will hide
#CMSimple $output.=acdivs('Contentpage,1');#
will show the headings of the content pages - independent from the global setting in the configuration.

Acknowledgment

This script is using the jQuery based Animated Collapsible DIVv2.4 JavaScript, written by dynamicdrive.com.

License

Terms of use:

This plugin is free to use under Linkware License only on private websites.
The link "made with acDIVs .." to http://cmsimple.holgerirmler.de must
stay visible and clear readable in the output.

On private websites, it is possible to remove the back-link if you purchase a Remove Link License.
Please visit http://cmsimple.holgerirmler.de to find out how to get a license.

You must purchase a Commercial License if you want to use this work on a commercial page or if you use this plugin in a paid project for a customer - commercial or not.
A website with paid advertisements is a commercial page.
Of course you're allowed to remove the back-link with a payed license.
Please visit http://cmsimple.holgerirmler.de to find out how to get a license.

Without my permission
- it is not allowed to redistribute this plugin
- it is not allowed to build and/or distribute modificated versions based on this plugin

Anyway, if you're allowed to use this plugin for free,
consider donating a few bucks to me via PayPal.

Need help?

... visit cmsimpleforum.com.

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