Questions tagged [content-plugin]
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Plugin to manipulate form data onContentBeforeSave
For a Joomla 4 project I wrote a Content Plugin to grab video thumbs from Video-URLs (Vimeo) the user adds into Custom form field of a frontend form. The following code successfully gets the video ...
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Joomla 4 Plugin to overwrite value of a custom field
I need a Joomla 4 Plugin to overwrite a marker in Custom Fields of type text or textarea with the article's title.
I added a onPrepareContent() method where I have access to the articles title as well ...
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How to use Openlayers transpiled Javascript code in my own extension (a "bundle")
I am developing a Joomla 3.x content plugin to display Openlayer maps in articles based on @Robbie Jacksons excellent tutorial at https://docs.joomla.org/J3.x:Developing_an_MVC_Component/Adding_a_Map ...
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How can a Joomla 3x "content" plugin determine which page it is on?
I am building an advanced image handler for Joomla 3x where images are built dynamically at run-time based on a number of parameters defined in tags inserted into articles. An example look like this:
{...
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Is it possible to process content plugins before returning articles in Web Services?
Imagine a have a list of content plugins installed on joomla like:
Snippets
LoadModule
etc...
I have an article with the following content:
<p>{snippet id="1"} {loadmoduleid 1}</p&...
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Simple Joomla plugin not working on frontend
I have a simple Joomla 3 plugin that works fine on backend for resizing images when uploading from multimedia manager:
<?php
defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access');
class ...
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Is SweetAlert2 html parameter length limited in size?
I recently created a plugin for Joomla which uses the nice SweetAlert2 popup script and it generally works fine. However, surprisingly, when the size of the html message I use is too long, the box ...
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How to set and use a global variable within a content plugin?
It's probably a duplicate.
Anyhow, I am writing a J5 content plugin using onContentPrepare event.
It turns out, that this plugin is called several times before the page is sent to the browser.
I want ...
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What are some options to show different parts of an article to different users?
I have some information/data that is personal (not necessarily secret) and I want a menu entry to show the information relevant for the logged in user.
On the page there are also some common ...
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Custom plugin doesn't even seem to load on Joomla 4
As a sort of newbie developer with php/Joomla, I created a content plugin for Joomla 3 which pretty much did what I wanted and expected...
I then decided to migrate it to Joomla 4 following the very ...
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How can I place a module position in the midpoint of my content no matter what size
I want to put a call to action in the middle of my content no matter what size the content it.
I know I will need some JavaScript in order to calculate the word count and the mid point. And I know I ...
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Plugin That Copies Menu Item With Its Module Assignments Does Not Work on Joomla 4
I am trying to create a Joomla 4 Plugin that copies a menu item with its module assignments. My code works well on J3, but not J4. What am I missing?
Here is my plugin's code:
<?php
/**
* @package ...
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