Question Using a Joomla 1.5 Plugin in the Help Article

I am setting up a Kunena help page using an article in Joomla 1.5. This works fine for normal content, but plugins don't seem to work. All I get is the plugin activation code in curly-braces ({ ... }).

Should I expect general Joomla plugins to work in the article set up for Kunena help?

TIA,

WarrenB

That's a very good question. Yes, of course, you should be able to insert a module within a Joomla article - that is standard Joomla - but what if the article is displayed via the Kunena help function? I have to admit, I've never tried to write a help article for Kunena that involved module-generated content.

I presume that, if you display your article with the embedded module from another menu on your site, everything works. It's only when you try to use the Kunena help menu tab that the module position appears with the curly braces instead of the module-generated content. Is this correct?

Yes, the article displays as expected from a menu but not as the Kunena help page. It's as though Kunena isn't using a standard Joomla method to display the help article.

Also, it's actually a little less complex as I'm not trying to insert a module or its content. I'm looking at a content-type plugin that modifies the article's content. In particular, I tried Jumi with a PHP page and "Tabs and Slides".

What I'm trying to do is add an accordion effect to the help page so I can have many small sections and the user can see one at a time. That will fit a lot of information into a relatively small space.

BTW, I tried enabling Joomla Mambots in case they were related to plugins, but that didn't help.

Thanks for helping,

WarrenB

Ah yes, those mystery mambot settings. I've never been able to figure out how they work.

The short answer, though, seems to be that you can't achieve what you're trying to do within Kunena. Obviously, there are other ways around the problem, but you seem to have hit upon a design flaw and it's a restriction you will have to live with for the time being ... unless someone else has a clue.