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I am developing a mvc component for both joomla 2.5 and 3.In many components i saw they added joomla's default command buttons like new, edit, publish, trash, options at top of their settings page in admin side. Eg. if one goes components->weblinks->links page, i am talking about those command buttons at top right.

So how do i add those command buttons in my component's settings page? when clicked it would do respective action and show respective view.For instance, if i click "new" button it will display my mvc component's add entry view as it is.

So how could i add fully workable joomla's command buttons in my component's settings page in admin side.

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The best practice is to create the addToolBar() method inside your View class and then using JToolBarHelper class to create command buttons:

protected function addToolBar()
{
  JToolBarHelper::addNew('yourcontroller.add');
  JToolBarHelper::editList('yourcontroller.edit');
}

So these will call the task/function "add"/"edit" in your specified controller. Then simply call $this->addToolBar() in your View's display() method.

Reference Creating a toolbar for your component

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  • I have only a controller file controller.php in my component and inside it i have a function function add() { JRequest::setVar('view', 'entry'); JRequest::setVar('layout', 'form'); parent::display(); } so in my view.html.php file i added JToolBarHelper::addNewX('controller.add'); then new button appears but when clicked it does not go to my view form instead adds a # to the url
    – dev-m
    Apr 27, 2014 at 20:12
  • Try to omit controller.task - JToolBarHelper::addNewX();
    – Dmitrijs Rekuns
    Apr 28, 2014 at 7:51
  • Added only JToolBarHelper::addNewX(); but not works.
    – dev-m
    Apr 28, 2014 at 12:52
  • Then you need to create a proper controller under controllers directory. See Adding backend actions
    – Dmitrijs Rekuns
    Apr 28, 2014 at 17:14
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You need to make sure the view that displays the buttons has a form to submit. The form name should be adminForm. The form should also have a hidden field named task and the dynamically generated token. I cannot recall the API off the top of my head, but something like JHtml::_('form.token'); (someone please correct this, if I'm mistaken)

This do the trick.

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  • The problem i found out before was that i was using form name as adminform instead adminForm.it seems joomla kind of case sensitive!
    – dev-m
    May 8, 2014 at 20:33
  • It's more of a JavaScript thing than Joomla specific. When you click the buttons you are actually triggering a JS submit form function, so if the form can't be found then it quietly fails.
    – Mathew Lenning
    May 8, 2014 at 22:15

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