Animating Joomla's system messages with MooTools

Monday, 23 June 2008

Here's a simple way to render an animation when your users get a system message. The Javascript searches for an element with the ".message" class, it waits 2 and a half seconds, then it fades and shrinks the message away.

To make sure the message is in sight, WinScroller scrolls to the element with the 'header' id. You need to modify this id to suit your templates's header or main column.

The message is passed as a request variable, 'mosmsg'.

This code snippet should be pasted into the head section of your template (between <head></head> tags)

<script type="text/javascript" >
 var tmjmosmsg,fx;
 function pload(){
 tmjmosmsg=$$('div.message');
 if($type(tmjmosmsg[0])=='element'){
 var el=tmjmosmsg[0];
 el.setStyle('overflow','hidden');
 var h=el.getSize().size.y;
 fx = new Fx.Styles(el, {duration:900, wait:false});
 //scrol to message
 winScroller = new Fx.Scroll(window);
 winScroller.toElement($('header'));
 //delayed start, then remove the html element upon completion
 
(function(){
 
fx.start({
 
'margin-top':-1*h.toInt(),
 
opacity:0
 
 
}).chain(function(){el.remove();});
}).delay(2500);
 
 }
 
 };
 
 window.addEvent('load',function(){
 pload();
 }
 
 );
 </script>

Make sure you loaded mootools v.1.11 before this code. Joomla 1.5 loads it automatically for you, Joomla 1.0.15 needs to specifically load mootools trough a <script src="..."></script> tag.

The file you need to alter is located at templates/your_current_template/index.php.

The script is installled on this site, you'll notice it when posting comments.

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Comments (4)

1. Great09-11-2009 10:37

Smith

Great skript, Thanks!

2. Joomla 1.5.9 Fix!08-03-2009 00:36

Phill

I needed to make a slight modification for it to work for me.

change the line:

tmjmosmsg=$$('div.message');

to:

tmjmosmsg=$$('dl#system-message');

3. Great08-03-2009 00:23

Phill

Looks good!

4. Just installed script. Not working.07-08-2008 11:34

Charles Howell http://www.broadwayboundstudios.com

I just put the code in the element of my template and it doesn't seem to be working.

Going to play around with it a little. But, I wanted to see what it's supposed to look like,

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