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Wrapper around "Guiders JS" jQuery plugin, "a user experience design pattern for introducing users to a web application".

Check out the Home page of the Plugin.

Please note that this extension does not provide any aditionnal feature than the one available in the wrapped plugin. It has no other dependency than the Yii2 Framework

Installation

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

Either run

php composer.phar require --prefer-dist raoul2000/yii2-guiders-widget "*"

or add

"raoul2000/yii2-guiders-widget": "*"

to the require section of your composer.json file.

Usage

This is an example no how to use this extension once it is installed. Let's create a 3 steps tour :

<?php 

// creates the first guider

raoul2000\widget\guiders\Guiders::widget([
	'show' => true,
	'pluginOptions' => [
		'buttons' => [['name' => "Next"]],
		'description' => "<b>Guiders</b> are a user interface design pattern for introducing features " 
			. " of software. This dialog box, for example, is the first in a series of guiders " 
			. " that together make up a guide.",
		'id' => "first",
		'next' => "second",
		'overlay' => true,
		'title' => "Welcome to Guiders.js!",
		'closeOnEscape' => true,
		'xButton' => true,
		'width' => 500
	]
]);


// creates the second guider. Note that 'show' is false by default.

raoul2000\widget\guiders\Guiders::widget([
	'pluginOptions' => [
		'buttons' => [['name' => "Next"]],
		'description' => "This is an intresting lorem ipsum colomn or what !",
		'id' => 'second',
		'next' => 'third',
		'overlay' => true,
		'title' => "Focus",
		'closeOnEscape' => true,
		'xButton' => true,
		'width' => 500,
		'attachTo'  => '#focusHere',
		'autoFocus' => true,
		'highlight' => '#focusHere',
		'position' => 6
	]
]);


// creates the third guider. 

raoul2000\widget\guiders\Guiders::widget([
	'pluginOptions' => [
		'buttons' => [
			[
				'name' => "Done",
				'onclick' => new yii\web\JsExpression('function(){guiders.hideAll();}')
			],
			[
				// if name is "close", "next", or "back", 
				// onclick defaults to guiders.hideAll, guiders.next, or guiders.prev respectively)
				'name' => 'back' 
			],
			[
				'name' => 'before you leave!',
				'onclick' => new yii\web\JsExpression('function(){alert("thanks for joining our Guiders Tour !");}')
			]
		],
		'description' => "That's all folks...well not exactly. There are <b>plenty</b> of nice options to play with"
			." so to create a nice tour. <h4>Check the Guiders-JS page</h4>",
		'id' => "third",
		'title' => "Welcome to Guiders.js!",
		'closeOnEscape' => true,
		'xButton' => true,
		'width' => 400
	]
]);

?>

For more information on the plugin options and usage, please refer to guiders-JS@github.

License

yii2-guiders-widget is released under the BSD 3-Clause License. See the bundled LICENSE.md for details.