Trying to Make noLinkFormat work with jQuery UI Accordion

[larry-tx]

I'm trying to make the noLinkFormat parameter work with jQuery UI Accordion. Theoretically, I need to surround the non-linking menu entry with something distinguishable to jQuery like

tags. Here's what I tried initially:

In the helper array:

'Menu.MenuBuilder' => array(
'noLinkFormat' => '

%s

',
'authField' => 'role',
'authVar' => 'user',
'authModel' => 'Users.User'
),

In the menu array itself:

array(
'title' => 'Learning Resources',
'permissions' => array(''),
'children' => array(
array(
'title' => 'Collections',
'url' => 'admin/collections/index',
and so

Unfortunately, that produced unclickable "Learning Resources" entry in the menu that looked like this in the source code:

Home

Learning Resources

So I changed my menu array to look like this:

array(
'title' => 'Learning Resources',
'url' => '#',
'permissions' => array(''),
'children' => array(
array( and so on

However, cake-menu then totally ignored my noLinkFormat parameter and produced this kind of source code:

• Home
• Learning Resources

  • With that, I don't see anything that I can hook jQuery UI accordion onto. Am I missing something? Is there a way to do that? Or to set the parameters to create the kind of hooks that it needs?

[torifat]

Can you please tell what you are trying to achieve?

[larry-tx]

I'm trying to make the noLinkFormat parameter work with jQuery UI Accordion. That mean that the non-linking elements of the menu array need to be surrounded by a HTML block element, preferably <h3>. All of the link elements under a non-linking element need to be surrounded by <div></div>. For example:

   ```<h3>Widgets</h3>
    <div>
        <ul>
            <li><a href="/widgets/add">Create Widget</a></li>
            <li><a href="/widgets/index">List Widgets</a></li>
        </ul>
    </div>
    <h3>Foo Bar</h3>
    <div>
        <ul>
            <li><a href="/foo_bar/add">Create Foo Bar</a></li>
            <li><a href="foo_bar/index">List Foo Bars</a></li>
        </ul>
    </div>```

As I'm sure you're aware, the jQuery Accordion widget is a very commonly used component of jQuery. Surely there must be a way to use it with the wonderful cake-menu_builder.