Auto insert text (or code) on article

Question

I try to find a way to auto insert code or text to every article on submission. I find this article on joomla https://docs.joomla.org/Add_text_to_an_article_using_template_overrides ,that uses template overrides to make this happen.Using this code:

var text = <?php 
    $addToText = '<p>Joomla! automatically added this text.</p>'; 
    if (strpos($this->article->text, $addToText) == 0) {
           $this->article->text .= $addToText;
    }
   echo $this->editor->getContent( 'text' ); ?>

on form.php file

,but this article is very old, i guess from joomla 1.5...

Answer 1

For what you describe, you will need to look into writing a plugin rather than using template overrides. You should be able to grab the content before it saves to the database and add any extra code at that point.

I think onContentBeforeSave would be the appropriate event to use in your case.

Template overrides still work in Joomla 3, but they just render the content differently rather than actually save it. Depending what you want to do, this may also work. A more up-to-date article on that is here: https://docs.joomla.org/How_to_override_the_output_from_the_Joomla!_core