JViewLegacy::getForm method works fine in admin component, no method found in front-end

Question

I am facing some strange issue. I have the similar setup for my component on both front-end and back-end component. Here is my view class signature.

MyComponentViewForm extends JViewLegacy

Now in my view.html.php, I var_dump $this->getForm(),

• Works fine and dumps the object from the admin component view class
• Fatal error: Call to undefined method error in front-end view class.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

it not because the problem in your View. You need make sure that your Model extend the JModelForm (or JModelAdmin) and implement method getForm:

YourComponentModelForm extends JModelForm
{
    public function getForm($data = array(), $loadData = true)
    {
        $form = $this->loadForm('com_yourcomponent.formname', 'formname', array('control' => 'jform', 'load_data' => $loadData));
        if (empty($form))
        {
           return false;
        }
        return $form;
    }
}

Answer 2

I am not sure how much this is correct but I solved this issue by adding a proxy method in my view.html.php:

public function getForm()
{
    if (!is_object($this->form))
    {
        $this->form = $this->get('Form');
    }

    return $this->form;
}

I am not sure why the view class is calling getForm method of view instead of model. This is still an unknown question to me. Strange part is $this->get('Form') inside this proxy method again invoke method in the model. If anyone has any better solution please let me know, I hate these hacks.