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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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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How to set the username hyperlink to open the user's EasySocial Profile in Fabrik?
Now I am using Fabrik and EasySocial.
Here is the table of Fabrik and the Label name "ADDED BY" is user name from Joomla User.
When I click on username, it takes me to edit the record, but ...
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Sharing a MVC resources library between two components
Lets say my component is called dumbo. It contains all kind of MVC stuff and works well.
Now i have a second component that is called jumbo. I need both components to share some models, controllers ...
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How to get the category name by id in custom component view
I have a custom component where I have a category field in a view (backend). That gives me the category id in the front-end.
Now I want to know how I could fetch the category name from this catid. I ...
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SchuWeb Sitemap error: non-numeric value encountered
I'm trying Schuweb Sitemap (3.1) on two Joomla sites (3.9.21).
I'm getting the same error on both sites:
Erreur d’analyse XML : données incompréhensibles après l’élément de document
Emplacement : ...
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Joomla - PHP session in joomla disappears
I am programming a little component and module in Joomla.
My component and module reads a variable from the php session (this variable is set before for external php script).
External php script:
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How to migrate old J prefix classes to new Joomla classes
I am trying to migrating old classes names to the new ones available on classmap.php
However after renaming the classes I am having these errors:
Class 'Text' not found //JText works
Class '...
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Is it possible to create a component "addon"?
I've created a component for handling a multitude of things for my clients, but I frequently get feedback that certain sections aren't needed or that additional sections are desired. The first ...
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How do I upload images to a specific folder (Component Backend)
I would like to know how I upload files to a specific folder through Joomla Administrator Panel (My Component Backend).
I know how to do it in the site part following along with this tutorial:
https:/...
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How to get an AJAX call in component's administrator side
I added a component to my site and it accesses my DB via an AJAX call. In my 'tmpl' folder, I have a 'default.php' file which makes an AJAX call that is received by view.json.php just outside that ...
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Using the SQL `Delimiter` statement in component update
For the next version of my component I need split some data into different tables, which requires some rather more complex SQL than I would usually use. The problem is that there doesn't seem to be a ...
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Adding a module from a component
I have a component that I want to use to add a module automatically.
This needs to be achieved in the administrator area.
My idea is to have a button in one of the component views. That component ...
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Error saving an edit in a custom component `table_users` was not locked with LOCK TABLES
I'm getting an error when trying to save edits in my custom component.
I have another edit.php that works well.
I identified that the problem lies in the table file, specifically in the function ...
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How to override "Select an option" header for SQL and list fields
In my custom component, inside the forms, I have several list fields.
Some are normal list fields, others are sql fields.
All of these show "Select an option" as a header.
I can't find the way to ...
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How to group Component sidebar menu, or add headings?
In my custom component, I have a sidebar with several entries. These are added using JHtmlSidebar::addEntry(...), as described in Joomla Documentation.
Most of these sidebar menu items will rarely be ...
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Add text and link to fieldset in config.xml
In my custom component, I have some component configs in the standard config.xml file. There are multiple fieldsets (tabs), each one has its own description.
I would like to add a line of text below ...
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How to add js library on component installation
I have component which needs a slider. I`ve chosed carousel but how to add it in the frontend part of the component on installation ? Tried to put it in the administrator part but the scripts can't be ...
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Backing Up Live Site Using Akeeba
Joomla 3.9.15
I have been using Akeeba to backup my sites and it's very good.
I've recently installed in on quite a busy site, users are regularly logging in and out of the front and back end, and ...
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How to override default.php for config.xml
I have component which has config.xml. It is render with the com_config/view/component/tmpl/default.php. I need to override this file in my component and create my custom layout. Red all the articles ...
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Joomla adds / to empty href and src attribute
I have a mustache template and the output via php is:
<a href="{{link}}"><img src="{{image}}" title="{{name}}" alt="{{name}}"></a>
but Joomla renders my output to:
<a href="/{{...
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Optional fields in renderFieldset
I'm updating a component of mine to use the renderFieldset method and remove some unnecessary code in the form template files. However, some of my fields show / hide based on other preferences in the ...
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Akeeba Kickstart Restore Site and Restrict Access
I use Akeeba Backup and Akeeba Kickstart to restore my sites and it's great. I normally backup and transfer the .jpa files then extract manually, not via the transfer wizard.
During the restoration ...
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Document Manager Recommendations
I'm looking for some recommendations for a document manager that's compatible with Joomla 3+. Seems to be a pretty popular question throughout the Joomla community.
In the past I've always used Phoca ...
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Is there a way to remove component media files on update?
In my Joomla component I have a bunch of Javascript files in media that change on update ( basically a compiled Angular app ) and because of the way the system is structured, I need to only have the ...
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Transfer Custom Code to Module / Plugin / Component
Joomla 3.9.12
I've been using Sourcerer in order to place custom code throughout my site, it's working well so far. I've created a custom html module, within this I have added PHP, JS, HTML and CSS. ...
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How to tell if the file can be overridden?
How do we alter the output of a Plugin that is installed in a Component (Example: "ABC" plugin installed in a Component "ABCD")? I understand that the core files can't be overridden. But how do we ...
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What is the reason pagination of records its not working?
Following the Developing an MVC Component / Basic backend guide, I can't make the pagination to work, following the instructions this is the code I have, the records are listed properly and the ...
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Add custom code to the controller from com_weblinks
I want to add analytics tracking code before the component com_weblinks jumps to an external site with task=weblink.go.
The problem is the jump is in the controller.php file. An override for this ...
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Failed deleting sourcerer_php - Joomla 3.x
I randomly get a warning notice on the front end of my Joomla! website and I really can't understand why.
Failed deleting sourcerer_php_d72bnbv27u4bfkdpa01347flf8gfkl
I checked my tmp folder on ...
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How to get SEF URL from JRoute when layout set in menu item
I've set up my component which has one view and several layouts. For each layout I've added a views/myview/tmpl/layoutname.xml file which sets the layout via a hidden variable, like so:
<field
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Jomres Country code and flag not corresponding
Country codes and flags do not correspond. Where can I change the country codes?
I checked the mod-language (language switcher), but didn't find all the flags and countries.
Is there another folder ...
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Joomla 404 component not found (custom component)
I am trying to create a custom component in my Joomla backend, so I created this xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<extension type="component" version="3.8.1" method="upgrade"&...
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How to hide <jdoc:include type="component" /> on the home page?
I am working with a unique template index.php file and want to remove the <jdoc:include type="component" /> because I don't want to display the empty space on the home page.
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Joomla and Eventbrite Integration
I am looking for a way to integrate Eventbrite with Joomla. I want to show a list of upcoming events that I have created. There are a number of default widgets available with Eventbrite (copy / paste ...
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Remove tag association when deleting an item in own component
I followed the MVC Tutorial from Joomla as close as possible to create my own component. I included Joomlas Tags system within my component using the Observer technique in the JTable class
class ...
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Accessing path to tmp directory in my component
How can I access in a custom component the full path to tmp directory configured in the Joomla configuration? I have changed the tmp directory to be outside of the Joomla! installation.
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How to write a complex installer script for a component?
I would like to ask the user some questions in a dialog way during installation of my component. As far as I know, this could be done in the preflight method. But I am not sure how to do user ...
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How to configure Eclipse Project for Joomla Component Development
I like to develop a fresh Joomla Component for Joomla 3.x in Eclipse and created therefore a simple PHP project.
The problem I have is now how to setup the correct "include path", so that the basic ...
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How to execute an ajax script to update form fields in an .xml file rendered by Akeeba FOF?
I would like to populate the "Owner" select option list by SELECTing the owner column from the #__gscrm_accounts table WHERE the gscrm_account_id (primary key) is the selected "Person or Business" ...
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Simple plugin to check folder contents on component update
I'm wanting to make a very simple plugin. All it needs to do is
On installation of the plugin, copy a folder to a particular component's library folder.
When a particular component library is ...
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How to set noindex on components
Anyone who can tell me how I can disable the component users to provide search engines the noindex, means:
<meta name=robots content="noindex" />
for example in all Joomla instances, the URL
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Display specific Joomla user groups
This code snippet below shows the list of all Joomla user groups(registered,editor.superuser and ...) at component
// load in joomla user groups
$qry = "SELECT * FROM #__usergroups ORDER BY ...
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How to add a CLI file to the /CLI directory as part of a component install
I have a component that needs a CLI file for use with cron. Is there a proper way to use the components manifest file to specify that the component includes a CLI file and that CLI file should be ...
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Adding Additional Fields to Admin Component
I'm using Joomla 3.9.1 and SP Simple Portfolio v1.6
I would like to add some additional fields to the SP Simple Portfolio component. Image of current fields (taken from Google);
How can I add ...
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Why are methods randomly placed in models as well as controllers in Joomla
I am quite new in Joomla. I have now understood the components, modules, templates thing and can also build modules and simple components.
But the one thing that has always confused me in Joomla is ...
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Simple AJAX call to a component giving 403 (Forbidden) error
Disclaimer: I'm pretty new to Joomla and web-development, so I probably am making a dumb beginner mistake. So far I've worked through much of the MVC tutorial in the Joomla documentation, and I've ...
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How to hide grey 'button bar' in administrator component view
Is it possible to hide the grey bar where buttons would normally go in an administrator view of a custom component? The grey bar shown below:
I have no buttons to show, so don't want it to take up ...
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MVC what stage sets a task if none provided
I am trying to understand Joomla's MVC logic. please help me figure out the processing of the task
Unedited code from a Joomla package has the front end article edit form with the task field, but its ...
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