So, you’re using Joomla and you want to include a decent, accessible vertical flyout menu such as MenuMatic (which is fantastic by the way)? If that describes you, then I have 2 pieces of advice for you:
- Stop using Joomla – it’s horrible.
- Read this article, it will tell you how to do it.
The main obstacle to using MenuMatic in Joomla is that it doesn’t work! The reason for this is because Joomla includes Mootools version 1.1 and MenuMatic requires Moo version 1.2. You’ve probably guessed that they’re not compatible.
Now what really irritates me, is the fact that Joomla only makes use of mootools in the administrative area, yet the developers have seen fit include the mootools library in the front end also…. So the task at hand is to keep Mootools version 1.1 for the back end (trust me, it’s totally unusable without it), but switching to Mootools version 1.2 for the front end.
