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I've recently upgraded my joomla site to 3.9.1, and now my custom components publish/unpublish buttons aren't working and I can't figure out why. The database column is called "state" and this is the code which was working up until the upgrade:

JToolbarHelper::publish('items.publish', 'JTOOLBAR_PUBLISH', true);
JToolbarHelper::unpublish('items.unpublish', 'JTOOLBAR_UNPUBLISH', true);

These buttons used to work and they would publish / unpublish the items, now I get this message:

0 items successfully published

I'm not sure where exactly the code is which tells it to update the status of the item, but for some reason it's not working anymore.

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  • Guys after upgrading to joomla 3.9 i faced the same problem as above. I am now facing a similar problem with creating a new file, it saves the record but the id returned is 0
    – maurice
    Jan 23, 2019 at 7:13
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    – mickmackusa ♦
    Feb 23, 2019 at 6:08

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Inside your table's constructor use setColumnAlias() to define the actual column name:

public function __construct($db)
{
    parent::__construct('#__example', 'id', $db);

    $this->setColumnAlias('published', 'state');
}
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  • Thank you, I'm getting this error now: Error: 0 Call to undefined method EmploymentModelitems::setColumnAlias()
    – Leanne Seawright
    Dec 6, 2018 at 6:30
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    You seem to have added this to the model, not to the table class. Tables are typically found in administrator/components/com_example/tables directory.
    – Sharky
    Dec 6, 2018 at 6:32
  • lol I had indeed, thank you for your help, that worked!!
    – Leanne Seawright
    Dec 6, 2018 at 6:35
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I faced the same problem. Only for me, the unpublish worked, and the publish did not. Solved by deleting rows from the table file.

if ( empty( $array['published'] ) ){
    $array['published'] = '1';
}
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  • While this may have worked for your project, I am wary about suggesting that researchers manually overwrite the published value if it is "not set or zero/falsey". I mean, if $array['published'] = 0 or $array['state'] = 0, then your script will always declare $array['published'] = 1 -- this kind of defeats the purpose of the toggleable value. Comparing this advice to Sharky's, I'd say it is a bad idea to ignore the database data coming from published/state.
    – mickmackusa ♦
    Feb 14, 2021 at 22:56
  • If $array['published'] is empty, the default value is provided in the database. I repeat that this if ( empty( $array['published'] ) ){ $array['published'] = '1';} gives a bug when working with JHtml::_( 'jgrid.published', $item->state, $i, 'tickets.', $canChange, 'cb' ); Just as the error of the buttons on the toolbar
    – MaXX
    Feb 16, 2021 at 12:28

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