Shape 5

Hi Guys,
Sorry i am new to Joomla. I have tried to do the setup of the Horizontal Accordion. But getting the following error/message when i check the front page.

Strict Standards: Only variables should be assigned by reference in /home/t4sysrmt/public_html/modules/mod_s5_horizontal_accordion/tmpl/default.php on line 53

I am not sure if i am missing something, as i said i am pretty new to joomla. The link for the website is http://t4systems.co.za/ If that will help.

OK - so i have been able to remove the error. But when i select version 1 of the Accordion i get a blank square image. I have looked at the setup and i don't seem to find something that i have missed. Could you please be so kind to assist me with this.

Hello,

If you want to use version 1 of this module then can you please PM me FTP and Joomla login details and I'll take a look at this for you?

Thanks,

Hi Jonah,

I have send you my details. But have not gotten any response from your side?

Oh sorry I did receive them just overlooked your message.  Ok I took a look at your site and logged in and it seems to be working fine for me.  I see you have modules published with text in them like "test" and they are showing fine on the frontend.  What exactly are you trying to achieve?

I would like to get the same looking as the one on the sample.

To do so you just enter image URLs in the admin so that you have a background image for each section.

Then each slide has the following code, here is an example chunk of code that you can use to get the icon text and button like the demo:

Hi Jonah,
For some reason i can't get the images to show. Could you please be so kind and check what am i doing wrong?

Hello,

I don't see any span as follows:

<span class="ion-earth ha"></span>


The class on there is what makes the icons show.  And for more classes for more icons you can view the site here:
http://ionicons.com/cheatsheet.html

Jonah, for some reason the JCE editor removes the span code "<span class="ion-earth ha"></span>".

Oh ok just disable the editor and switch to no editor under your global configuration area then this will solve it.

Hi Jonah,
I don't think we are on the same page. Please see link to which one i am talking about. http://www.shape5.com/demo/index.php?http://www.shape5.com/demo/aurora_dawn/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=184&Itemid=220

This is what we are looking for. But as i can see is that none of the things are there. I have to manually go and amend the css to get it to look like yours. Which i didn't know we had to do, if we knew that we wouldn't have purchased it. As we where under the impression that it would look like the one in the demo. Could you please assist me with this or at least the css code used? So that i can then do it myself. Let me know if there is anything else.

Yes you will have to amend some CSS as each slide is just a module position.  This way when using the module you can put whatever you desire in there.  But for the demo code you can get an example of it here on the below tutorial.  Let me know if you still need some help after checking this out:

http://www.shape5.com/demo/index.php?http://www.shape5.com/demo/aurora_dawn/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=184&Itemid=220

Hi Jonah,
The link that you have attached is the same one as what i gave you.

Oh opps, it is the same link :)

Did you see the code on this page though?  If you scroll down you'll see "Code used for this demo " and that code needs to be pasted into the module positions for the Horizontal accordion.

HI Jonah,

Apologies things here are a bit busy. I did as you said and added the sample code to the modules. But still it doesn't look like that of the demo.

Ok I see why you are having problems.  The code you are using is specific to the version 1 of the module.  It appears you are using version 2 right now on your site.  The Zoka template here:  http://www.shape5.com/demo/zoka_transports/

Is what the version 2 looks like with some code we added which I was giving you earlier in our conversation on here.

Hi Jonah,

Even if i use the sample code that is on that page it still doesn't display the same as per the demo.

The sample code for version 2 you would need to use is the following and ion icons would also need to be enabled in your Vertex admin area:

Hi Jonah,
Even if i add the demo code to the modules it still does not look the same as the sample.

I would try disabling any WYSIWYG editors on your site then.  They may be stripping out code from having it appear properly

Jonah,
As i said from the begging is that i want it to look the same as the sample that i attached as a image. This is why i bought the subscription so that i can add this to our website. In this case it should be version 1 if i am correct. When i change it to version 1 and also use the demo code it shows blank with a thin black border. How do i get it too look as attached. If you look at the website you will see that it showing blank atm.

If you want as shown in the screenshot you need to choose "version 1" of the module.  When I've looked at your site it's the "version 2" as shown in the Zoka Transports template so thats why its not looking proper.  If you can choose "version 1" I can work with you from there to get it looking like the screenshot if more adjustments are needed

Hi Jonah,
It is set as version 1 but is showing up blank though?

Hello,

Your site is producing a lot of javascript errors, which is most likely what is causing the module to break. I see that your template is calling:

<script src="/templates/freeway/jquery.js"></script>

Which is an incorrect way to call jquery and is causing conflicts. Jquery should only ever be called form the core of Joomla to avoid conflicts.

Guys this is really getting out of hand now. I have paid for something and all i get is excuses that the thing can't work or your template is the problem. I use Artisteer to create the templates. So i don't understand why this could be the problem. If you are unable to assist me to FIX your plug-in i want a refund and i will find a plug-in that will work for my site.

Hello,

We can resolve this. I didn't realize this was still an issue as we didn't hear from you for a bit.  I just checked your site and it appears you have another Horizontal Accordion running on it.  Let me know if you still need assistance with the one here from Shape5.

Thanks,

Hi Jonah,
Yes i would like it to work as i have paid to use it. The other Slider is something i was looking at. I don't always find time to attend to the website as i have other issues to attend to.

Ok I will continue to look into this.  Would you be able to PM me FTP login details to your site too?  I may have to edit the files for the module to get it working.  I do have your Joomla login still.

Thanks

Hi Jonah,

Any news yet on getting this resolved??

Hello,

I just sent you a PM with details on this

Hello,

Ok so it is an issue with your template. It's calling jquery from its own files instead of the core:

<script src="<?php echo $templateUrl; ?>/jquery.js"></script>

You never do that or it will conflict with the core jquery, which is what the javascript error is showing.

What I did for a work around was for these calls to be called on all versions of Joomla:

<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo $url ?>js/jquery_easing.js"></script>

That's only meant for Joomla 2.5, but since this template is breaking jquery it has to reintroduce the jquery easing call when the module is called.  But it is now working with these edits.