I have been following this guide to successfully create a Joomla custom component: http://docs.joomla.org/J2.5:Developing_a_MVC_Component/Introduction
For simplicity's sake lets say I have two tables, one for authors and one for books.
--AUTHORS--
ID
Name
--BOOKS--
ID
Name
Author_reference
Both have two views each, one list view and one edit view. When I click on a author in the list view it takes me to the list view of the books to see what books the author has written, and only those books filtering out the others.
Here the problem start, when I click on the New button in Joomla I want to add a book to that specific author, but have no way to set that reference. So far I have set that reference with a Session variable when clicking the author but that has obvious flaws such as opening another author in a new tab changing the Session variable.
EDIT: Looks like my question was not very specified. I need a way to send a parameter/variable when clicking the "New" button in admin mode in my component.
You can see a good tutorial for this on another question that I answered: How to add a link category_id added to the admin (JToolBarHelper::addNew)? - Joomla 2.5
Basically, joomla has two functions that you can set in the controller for that view to facilitate adding items to the url even through it's redirects as part of the loading, checking out, and save process.
You can build that with the "foreign key" or "category field" functionality in the Joomla Component Creator. It will save you a lot of headake. Give it a try.
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I have a static website, which I want to make editable by the client. So, I decided to rebuild the website using Joomla. The current static home page uses Zurb's Foundation to display the contents in the following layout.
1st Row: 1 column,
2nd Row: 2 columns,
3rd Row: 1 column
Using Joomal, I have thought of the following options.
the whole page is 1 article: the client would need to understand html, to be able to maintain div's and classes. Isn't it?
Each column on the page (1 column on the 1st row + 2 columns on the 2nd row + 1 column on the 3rd row) is an article that the client can edit. In effect, the page displays the full contents of 4 articles in the above layout.
I think the 2nd option is the way to go. However, I could not figure out how to display multiple, FULL, EDITABLE articles on the same page. I looked at the extension (Articles Anywhere - https://extensions.joomla.org/extension/articles-anywhere). However, it seems that although this extension can display articles, they won't be editable by authorised users.
Your effort and time to answer my question are highly appreciated...
Throughout the last few days, I managed to achieve what I asked about. I thought of documenting it here for the benefit of others.
Let's say we want to create a page, which looks like the following.
1st Row has 1 column: Part-r1-c1
2nd Row has 2 columns: Part-r2-c1 & Part-r2-c2
3rd Row has 1 column: Part-r3-c1
Basically, you need to do the following.
Create a template having module positions for each "Part" of your page layout. Let's call this template "Custom Template". So, you will need to create 4 positions:
Part-r1-c1
Part-r2-c1
Part-r2-c2
Part-r3-c1
Creating a custom template is an involved process with quite a learning curve. You need to be patient until you understand how Joomla templates work. I suggest referring to the official documentation and some tutorial videos/articles. I found the following useful.
Convert an HTML Template to Joomla 2.5/3.0 (3-parts YouTube Video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E13QMWgvwlA&t=3s
https://docs.joomla.org/Creating_a_basic_Joomla!_template
As an alternative to creating your own template, you can use a Template Extension (or framework). I like T3-Framework http://www.t3-framework.org/.
However, in my opinion, investing time in understanding how Joomla templates work has much higher return on investment than understanding how to customise/customize an existing framework. To build your own template, you need to be comfortable with changing php and xml files though.
Create an empty article, and call it something like "Dummy Article".
Create a menu item for your page, e.g. "Services". The type of this menu item should be "single article". Choose the "Dummy Article", which you created above, as the article to be displayed. Assign "Custom Template" to this menu item.
Create an article for each Part of your page, in which you will write the contents, which your customer would be able to change.
Create a module for each Part, and assign it to the related position of the layout, and insert the related article into this module. Inserting articles into modules is not part of standard Joomla (at the current version 3.6.4). To insert articles into modules, you need to use a Joomla extension, like https://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/extension/news-display/articles-anywhere/.
That's it.
I discovered the need for another feature, which I missed asking about in my question. I wanted to make some Parts, which are not editable by the customer. Here's how I did it.
Create a category for articles, which you don't want your customer to change. Let's call it "Protected". Change the permissions for this category to Deny access to Editors (with the assumption that you are going to provide your customer with an Editor User ID.)
Create articles for each Part of your page, in which you will write the contents, which your customer CANNOT change. Categorise these articles as "Protected."
Good Luck!
To display multiple articles on a page you can use the category blog view or the featured view or (with customization) the tagged items view. However you must not use "read more" within the articles. Make sure that the option to display edit icon is turned on and that you are logged in as a user with edit privileges for all of the articles in question. If you are an administrator, publisher or editor by default you will have these.
I'm trying to get my head around Joomla 3.2's new framework and develop a capability/feature in a custom component (lets call it com_custom) that can load com_content's category blog view within com_custom's view, using the category blog's menu item id!
There are quite a few codes that I saw here and around the web that only load the default view of the 'imported' component, rather than the view specified in the imported component's assigned menu parameters. Also, most of these codes use deprecated functions, so I'm quite lost now.
So what I need to be able to add is:
Include a category blog view (say from menu item id 223) within com_custom's current view.
It should import all of the parameter setting of the category blog's menu item.
It should not be in an iFrame
Any help is much appreciated!!!
You can't include com_content because it makes use of the JPATH_COMPONENT constant in 14 different places, most notably in content.php (the main file that's loaded, even before the controller) and in most views, in order to load helpers.
These are the first two ways that come to mind to overcome this limitation:
Instantiate the articles model, load the data, and use your view to display it; you'll need to dig into the menu table to find the params related to your menuid; Bewre: Search engines might consider the duplicate content as spam.
Insert a jquery ajax call to get the url of the menuid adding &tmpl=component i.e.
index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=13&Itemid=522&tmpl=component
The latter will be much easier to implement. Search Engines will NOT see the different content under different urls, since it's ajax.
Regarding the limitation, see also this question:
Joomla how can i create model from other component
Im new to MVC3 so please excuse me. I have the following situation: I have a simple order form and each order can have multiple products attached to it. I want this all to be on one form, so the user will be presented with a form to fill out all their information as well as select a product from a drop down list. They can then click "Add Another" and another dropdown list will appear from which they can select another product. My question is how do I access these dynamically created dropdownlist values from the controllers action? I come from Webforms and so am still trying to wrap my head around things.
Any help much appreciated.
Thanks
here is an excellent post for making master detail in mvc.net
http://zahidadeel.blogspot.com/2011/05/master-detail-form-in-aspnet-mvc-3-i.html
also model binding to a list by phil haack is a must read
I have created a Sample Module (Admin Side) in Magento.. I managed To created a form and Then Stored the form field values in Database. Now I am trying To create a search view for that. to show me all the values which i have stored in my table. however i am not able to get it. when i press the tab I directly get the form view. I want the search view first and a button there which ll direct me to this form. I want it the same way as it is for product, category or any other module. Do anyone Know How can I do it.
It's called a grid. The process is kind of long to explain here, but if you search online there are a few tutorials that explain how to do it (here's one that I found useful: http://www.webspeaks.in/2010/08/create-admin-backend-module-in-magento.html). Keep in mind that you can also model your own code after core code. If you want to make a grid like the Category grid, then go look in the code how its made.
I made a component for Joomla and it's working ok with the direct url: http://www.something.com/index.php?option=com_pbform
The problem is that when I try to add it in the menu.
When I change the menu item type, the component is listed, but when I click on it I don't get a view to apply to the menu item.
Do I have to configure anything else in the component?
Thank you!
Add your component to jos_components table:
INSERT INTO jos_components (name, link, admin_menu_link, `option`)
VALUES (
'Greetings', 'option=com_greetings', 'option=com_greetings', 'com_greetings')
If you have all your views set up correctly you need to add your component into the Joomla database.
Functions and view folders must have no hyphens or underscores.
Good
/view/viewone
/view/viewtwo
/view/viewthree
Bad
/view/view_one
/view/view_two
/view/view_three
If you setup your component in the MVC fashion then you would have a views/layout folder structure in your component folder. Each different view you have in there will be listed in the menu types under your component name. This is where the views can be chosen.
For e.g. in your component folder structure you have
views/view_a
views/view_b
views/view_c
then in the Joomla menu selector you would have those choices to select as a view.
If you haven't setup your component as MVC then have a look at this tutorial on how to do just that http://www.joomladevuser.com/tutorials/components
I hope that helps!
Cheers
You may need a metadata.xml file for each of your views. See http://docs.joomla.org/Adding_view_layout_configuration_parameters for more details
Use this simple solution. You expected to find your new component in the menu item type drop-down list, but its not there! Instead of trying to cope with that ugly MVC scrap do this:
select "single article" from the list and SAVE your new menu item
now open your joomla db
select _menu table
edit your menu row
change link from article to index.php?option=com_yourcomponent
save and take a look at administrator menu manager
I did migrate my Joomla 1.5 collection of Ajax/PHP scripts to Joomla 1.7.3 using this solution in just one day.
Piece of cake.