JLayout recommended usage

Question

Inside a plugin I need to make a popup window to preview some HTML structure. Can I use JLayout to achieve it or is there a more proper way to do it? If JLayout is the way to do it, also would like to know how can I check if a certain Layout is being used. Thanks.

Answer 1

You can used Joomla's renderModal function to initiate a Bootstrap modal.

$name = 'myModal';
$html = '<a href="#modal-' . $name.'" data-toggle="modal" class="btn">Launch modal</a>';

$modalParams = array();
$modalParams['title']  = 'Modal title';

$modalBody = '<p>Modal main text line 2</p>';
$modalBody .= '<p>Modal main text line 2</p>';

echo $html .= JHtml::_('bootstrap.renderModal', 'modal-' . $name, $modalParams, $modalBody);

The $modalBody variable should contain all of your modal content.

Here is a screenshot of the results:

Hope this helps