Select Accordian Panel via $_GET

Question

Is it possible to select which panel is open on a page
through a url $_GET?
For example, if you have a regular non spry webpage or email
that you want to link to a specific open panel on a spry webpage,
how can that be achieved.
i.e.
<a href="
http://www.domain.com/test.php?panel=3
>open panel four</a>
I have seen the posts for openPanel and have not been able to
get them to work at all.
Any suggestions?
thanks,
elaine

Answer 1

When the page loads you could just get the panel from the
query string and send it as the default when you create the
accordion. The code looks like:
var defaultPanelParam = getQueryVariable('panel');
var sampleAccordion = new
Spry.Widget.Accordion("sampleAccordion", {defaultPanel:
defaultPanelParam});
The first implementation I found for getQueryVariable is
http://www.activsoftware.com/code_samples/code.cfm/CodeID/59/JavaScript/Get_Query_String_v ariables_in_JavaScript
There's other ones out there you could use too if you don't
already have code to do that.
Chris