Questions tagged [component]
Components are the main functional units of Joomla!; they can be seen as mini-applications. An easy analogy would be that Joomla! is the operating system and the components are desktop applications.
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Invalid controller class: display
I am trying to create a simple component. After installation of the component I get the following error message in the admin view:
An error has occurred.
0 Invalid controller class: display
I've ...
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How To Install And Set the path to FFMPEG in EasySocial Joomla Component
How can I install FFMPEG for EasySocial Joomla Component and then set the path to FFMPEG in EasySocial Settings Video Section?
We are using Laragon Local Server.
PHP: 7.4.33
OS: Windows 10
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Running a python script within a Joomla 4 component gets return value of 2. How do I get Joomla to run the script successfully?
I'm writing a custom Joomla 4 component, and when I try to run python code within the Model php file to pass to the View, the exec command returns an resultValue of 2.
The python code is valid
The ...
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500 Layout default not found. (Joomla 4)
I am trying to make a music component for Joomla 4
On the backend, my other forms work fine and the data is stored correctly in the database ( celebrity , album , etc...)
In the music form, when I ...
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PHP if statement to display divs only on first page of pagination Joomla 4
I've spent the past few days trying different variations of if statements to get this working but it's now driving me nuts.
What I'd like to do is show a series of divs on the first page of a custom ...
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Custom Component - Frontend Menu Item incorrect link
While creating my Custom Component i'm struggeling now on creating menu items for my views.
The views are available via "/index.php?option=com_mycomponent&view=items" or "/index....
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Custom J4 Component - Multiple Models & Different Category "Groups"?
I have a Custom J4 Component that should have different types of contents. So called "items" and "packages". The items are done so far and using the default J4 categories via "...
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How to use emoji picker plugin from editor in Joomla in a textarea field?
I need to use the emoji picker plugin from editor to add emojis in a textarea field. Is it possible?
It's for my chat component: https://extensions.joomla.org/extension/communication/chat/tabapapo/
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Joomla layout CSS classes in a view into iFrame
In the chat component I developed there is a View inside an Iframe in the Main View. The component's CSS works normally, but I can't use the standard Joomla layout classes. The HTML is sent by the ...
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404 View not found [name, type, prefix]
I'm currently building a new Joomla! 4 component from scratch by following along a series of blog posts since I am new to Joomla! and its development.
I am using Joomla! 4.1.5
Unfortunately I am not ...
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What is the correct way to insert the first category called "Uncategorized" in the categories table in the SQL file during installation of component?
I also need to know if the insert of the table #__content_types is correct and if there is something missing in the SQL installation code.
SET time_zone = "+00:00";
CREATE TABLE IF NOT ...
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What is the best way to have pages displaying articles from our custom content table in Joomla 4.1?
Related: Is it possible to make it so that authors can edit their own published articles creating a new unpublished version of them?
The answer to that question is "In Joomla 4 it is, but authors ...
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admin edit.php saves but doesn't retrieve data from "params" database field
I have a config.xml with some parameters for my component.
I need to define these parameters for each individual item.
So in admin/models/forms/myview.xml, I've written my fields:
<fields name=&...
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Is it possible to remove the "new article" button from all sections in a Joomla website?
A mate and I are doing an internship at university, and the project we are working on is a small Joomla 4.1 website. Our supervisors asked us to override the mechanics of content insertion so that an ...
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Get IP and Country of user who downloads a file
I've written a component for downloading files from my website and it also writes data to the database about the downloading of files. To understand where the downloading users are from, I want to ...
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Incorrect Uri::root() with external PHP file
The file /srv/http/components/com_mycomponent/ajax/editAction.php was initialized with https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/issues/34586#issuecomment-865080001, except that we use
define('JPATH_BASE', ...
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Authenticate Http request
I'm trying to POST from one controller method to another with the Http class.
$http = new Http();
$url = Uri::base().'index.php?option=com_mycontroller&task=my_method';
$response = $http->post($...
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Folders inside src/Controller/ folder
I know that you can add a controller into the src/Controller/ folder directly, and Joomla automatically recognizes it as a controller class, and you can route to it using either
?controller=...
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How to get Joomla article association?
How can I get the associated articles programmatically in my custom component function?
I have my custom component and I am creating a new article for a multilingual site, so I need to associate ...
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Component/module for registering to get document
I'm looking for a way to have users register their email and then get sent a document, like you often see on sites offering white papers.
I've looked at many of the download extensions on the JED but ...
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In extensions, make the schema update SQL conditional
In the xml install file for an extension for Joomla! 4.0, there are these lines that make the SQL update :
<update>
<schemas>
<schemapath type="mysql">sql/...
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Article layout override in J!4
I'm starting to worry about updating my Joomla! 3 to Joomla! 4 (4.0.6 at the time of posting this).
In Joomla!, 3 I used a lot the functionality that allows to create article layout overrides by ...
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Coding Standard Question - defined( or \defined(
A general Joomla! coding question... Checking _JEXEC is defined.
In administrator/components/.../src/everywhere it is
defined('_JEXEC') or die;
use function defined;
Whereas in components/.../src/...
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Redirect controller function on load, what function do I need to use?
I have a question, and I am a bit confused where i need to put this.
I have a controller which is mainly empty:
class ControllerProfiles extends Controller
{
public function &getModel($...
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Joomla 4. Call to a member function getTable() on bool
I am adapting the component to the new structure and classes of joomla 4. I started with the admin panel of my component. The list and the edit page are displayed without errors, but when I try to use ...
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Where do I add php code to submit an HTML form?
I am new to Joomla, and so far, I used the basics to make a simple website. I decided to try out making a component, using JCB, that has a database of a list of items, and for each item, there is a ...
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"404 Component not found" when trying to set an image for a category
I'm experiencing a really weird error in the backend of my site - Whenever I try to set an image for a category or article, the modal that pops up just shows me the Joomla dashboard.
When I'm editing ...
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Load Plugin Form into Component Form
I'm trying to load a plugin's form into my component form in Joomla4. So my components getForm method is:
$form = $this->loadForm(
'com_mycomponent.member',
'memberform',
array( '...
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Multiple components on a single page
Is it possible to show multiple components on a single page in joomla?
I have 2 menu items, each one shows a different component, i want to show them both on the same page, is it possible?
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Share code between component templates
In a complex component, there will be a number of /views/viewname/tmpl/default.php (or similar) files. It is quite likely that different views will share common features. Duplicating code is generally ...
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How does Joomla 4 decide a component is legacy?
What determines whether Joomla 4 treats something as a legacy component?
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Is there a way to FTP a particular component between joomla sites
I've been working with wordpress for so many years, and I've just been tasked with helping someone fix their joomla site. For some reason they didn't want to copy over the whole site to a dev ...
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Select articles to display in custom component
I have a custom component where I was to be able to select other articles to show in the frontend. I have thought the best way to do this would be through the SQL field.
This is good that it gives me ...
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Where to read about Joomla 4 convention for class names
In a few answers on JSE and looking at the Joomla 4 tutorial on building a new component, I have noticed that the convention for class names appears to have changed, dropping the <component_name>...
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Trying to add subform field to existing component xml
I've added the following into my components XML file :
<field name="activity_name" type="subform" label="Activity" description="" multiple="true&...
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Run model function in view file to insert default value into sql
I am new to Joomla and received a half-done component. It is a mostly database-dependent component. The component consists of a SQL file that inserts all the data and is able to display it. I am ...
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Best practices for Joomla - Get another model in a view from another controller
I need to get data from another model than the view specific controller/model into the view. But I'm not sure if the way I'm doing it now is correct.
I do that via the following way in the view.html....
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Getlistquery Joomla conditional values
So I have a query in the getlistquery method of my model, except that it relies on data in another table, that sometimes is not filled. This gives me an error when that other data is not available.
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JTable, new row doesn't get inserted with table->save method
I'm trying to insert a row with the table->save() method, but the method executes an UPDATE instead. There is no row available, so it needs to be inserted. Does anyone know how to get it inserted?
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What is url for calling task in controller for Joomla 4?
This is my ajax query for calling a task in the controller (it works for Joomla 3 but doesn't work for Joomla 4):
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "index.php?option=com_scrib&...
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An error has occurred. 1062 Duplicate entry '0' for key 'PRIMARY' Return to Control Panel?
I have been trying to add a new post from few days using the EasyBlog component in my Joomla 3.9.24 site, but I am getting anerror after clicking the add new button from the Joolma backend.
I can't ...
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Which content is generated first? component or module?
I have a page with modules and components from the same extension. I made some customizations to the component's template file so when the page loads it gets the current user's avatar from some ...
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Interaction between two different components
I am building an online forum with EasyDiscuss.
In a social login component, I am able to get user avatars from Facebook/Google. Now I want to save these avatars to EasyDiscuss users. EasyDiscuss has ...
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Techjoomla's API Module
I am trying to write a plugin to use Techjoomla's api component on my Joomla 3 site.
Their documentation gives sample code which I am altering to fit my needs. I am trying to make a very basic API ...
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Doesn't find the component id when creating menu items during postflight step when installing a component
I'am working with the last git changes of Joomla 4.0. In my component, i create the menu items for frontend part during postflight step when installing a component. The issue is that isn't able to ...
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Using ProFiles Joomla Web Filemanager - it runs only with administrator rights
I want to use the Joomla component "ProFiles". I want to setup a usergroup which can up/download files. How must iI implement the call to the component - the way I'm doing it is as follows: ...
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Is Joomla a correct choice for a social medium with rankings of products?
I'm thinking about creating a certain website and I'm not sure if Joomla is a tool I could use and would be one of the best choices.
I would like to create something like https://www.imdb.com/ , i.e. ...
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Set Joomla cookie via cURL from external website
I'm trying to set up a cookie in Joomla from an external website using cURL. The process flow is as below:
User does an action in external.com
external.com cURL a URL in joomla.com
joomla.com sets ...
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Install component via FTP, copy component from one installation to another
I have a weird and unfortunate situation. I use a certain component which the creator of it retires due to stage four cancer. This means that I cannot download the component anymore, but I do have the ...
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Joomla 3.9.19 get the constants from global configuration in component display function
I have created a component and need to get a constant value in the component administrator and list the item according to it. I have tried different ways to get the constant value in the display() ...
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