I have used the joomla docs to make a hello world plugin and then again the joomla docs to load the plugin within the joomla banners component.
I cant seem to load the extra tabs inside the banner edit view in the admin?
My helloworld.php
<?php
// no direct access
defined('_JEXEC') or die;
class plgContentHelloworld extends JPlugin
{
/**
* Load the language file on instantiation.
* Note this is only available in Joomla 3.1 and higher.
* If you want to support 3.0 series you must override the constructor
*
* @var boolean
* @since 3.1
*/
protected $autoloadLanguage = true;
function onContentPrepareForm($form, $data) {
$app = JFactory::getApplication();
$option = $app->input->get('option');
switch($option) {
case 'com_banners':
if ($app->isAdmin()) {
JForm::addFormPath(__DIR__ . '/forms'); // this is the path to the xml file
$form->loadFile('bannerfields', false); // this is the xml file
echo '<h1>Youre in the banners edit view!</h1>'; // this works
}
return true;
}
return true;
}
}
?>
My helloworld.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<extension version="3.0" type="plugin" group="content">
<name>plg_content_helloworld</name>
<author>blah</author>
<creationDate>2012-10-21</creationDate>
<copyright>blah</copyright>
<license>GNU General Public License</license>
<authorEmail>blah</authorEmail>
<authorUrl>blah</authorUrl>
<version>1.0</version>
<description>blah</description>
<files>
<filename plugin="helloworld">helloworld.php</filename>
<filename>index.html</filename>
</files>
</extension>
forms/bannerfields.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<form>
<fields name="params">
<fieldset name="extrafields" label="Extra content">
<field name="numero" type="text" size="50" default="" label="Example field" description="" class="inputbox" labelclass="control-label" />
</fieldset>
<fieldset name="extrafields2" label="Extra content 2">
<field name="example1" type="text" size="100" default="" label="Example 1" description="" class="inputbox" labelclass="control-label" />
<field name="example2" type="text" size="100" default="" label="Example 2" description="" class="inputbox" labelclass="control-label" />
<field name="example3" type="text" size="100" default="" label="Example 3" description="" class="inputbox" labelclass="control-label" />
<field name="example4" type="text" size="100" default="" label="Example 4" description="" class="inputbox" labelclass="control-label" />
</fieldset>
</fields>
</form>
Thanks in advance :) John