Wanted: Simple vertical menu that can collapse children of selected parent

[jomoweb]

Hi,

I can not find a patch anywhere to perform this.  It should be fairly simple, but not so much for someone who lacks in the programming dept...  I am using simple_navigation.tpl, but am open to any new ideas...

Currently the menu looks like this:

* Parent 1
* Parent 2
* Parent 3

You click on Parent 2, and it looks like this:

* Parent 1
* Parent 2
    * Child 1
    * Child 2
    * Child 3
* Parent 3

Now, if you click on parent 1 or 3, parent 2 collapses (and the others expand).  My hope is to find a way to collapse the hild elements of parent 2 when clicked on.

Thanks!  Any help is greatly appreciated.

[jomoweb]

Bump

[jomoweb]

Ok, I am so close on this one and I promise to post the code if/when I finish it, because I am sure others will like this feature.  My last hurdle is to insert a dynamic id to the second "" that is repeated. 

I need to make it say this basically:
hierarchy}>

But when I try that I get this error:
Catchable fatal error: Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string

Does anyone know how I can parse that smarty tag and insert it, or avoid this error?

Full Menu Template so far:
{* CSS classes used in this template:
.activeparent - The top level parent when a child is the active/current page
li.active0n h3 - n is the depth/level of the node. To style the active page for each level separately. The active page is not clickable.
.clearfix - Used for the unclickable h3 to use the entire width of the li, just like the anchors. See the Tools stylesheet in the default CMSMS installation.
li.sectionheader h3 - To style section header
li.separator - To style the ruler for the separator *}

{if $count > 0}

{foreach from=$nodelist item=node}
{if $node->depth > $node->prevdepth}
{repeat  string="hierarchy}[/b]>" times=$node->depth-$node->prevdepth}
{elseif $node->depth prevdepth}
{repeat string="" times=$node->prevdepth-$node->depth}

{elseif $node->index > 0}
{/if}

{if $node->current == true}
hierarchy}">Current page is {$node->hierarchy}: hierarchy}');">{$node->menutext}

{elseif $node->parent == true}
url}"{if $node->accesskey != ''} accesskey="{$node->accesskey}"{/if}{if $node->tabindex != ''} tabindex="{$node->tabindex}"{/if}{if $node->titleattribute != ''} title="{$node->titleattribute}"{/if}>{$node->hierarchy}: {$node->menutext}

{else}
hierarchy}">url}"{if $node->accesskey != ''} accesskey="{$node->accesskey}"{/if}{if $node->tabindex != ''} tabindex="{$node->tabindex}"{/if}{if $node->titleattribute != ''} title="{$node->titleattribute}"{/if}{if $node->target != ''} target="{$node->target}"{/if}>{$node->hierarchy}: {$node->menutext}
{/if}

{/foreach}
{repeat string="" times=$node->depth-1}

{/if}

[Dr.CSS]

You may want to check this out, it's made to click on parents and collapse the children w/o changing pages or refresh...

http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... con_expand