Questions tagged [jform]
Form Class for the Joomla Platform.
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Form-Validation in Frontend
I'm trying to get my component ready for frontend-action. There are some forms that are filled by the user - but of course I have some fields that need specific values (int, float, ...) and some ...
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Model/Controller: get id of current item and use it in controller
I got a view in my component's frontend, which catches data from model using the ID of the element:
protected function populateState($ordering = null, $direction = null)
{
$app = ...
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Where can I find a good tutorial and/or example for creating front-end forms in custom components?
I'm building my first component for Joomla 3.x (I don't need support for 2.x). I've created my models (and unit tested them). I'm now ready to create the views. To start I just want to create a simple ...
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JFormFieldList in Frontend -> Notice: Array to string conversion
I'm facing a strange problem. I'm trying to define a custom field for the frontend-view of my component like this:
defined('JPATH_BASE') or die;
jimport('joomla.form.formfield');
jimport('joomla....
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Filter does not work after clicking grid.published-button
I created a filter for the backend of my component like this:
<field name = "category_id"
type = "category"
label = "JOPTION_FILTER_CATEGORY"
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Insert value to custom field using getForm (setFieldAttribute)
I would like to add some data to a form field I declared in my forms.xml. This form field is a custom form field which is declared like this:
<fields name = "userdata">
<fieldset name = "...
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Show Form Field if AJAX-response is false
I would like to extend my component with some interaction. For this purpose I try to show fields in a form only if necessary. This works fine with showon-declarations in my form.xml.
Now I would like ...
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How to retrieve values of all the fields with JInput but without jform[]
As we know we can retrieve values of all the fields if they have names like name="jform[something]" and we can use the code:
$jinput = JFactory::getApplication()->input;
$formData = new JRegistry($...
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Make one of select fields required in a form
I have this form.
<?php
// No direct access to this file
defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access');
JHtml::_('behavior.keepalive');
JHtml::_('behavior.formvalidation');
JHtml::_('behavior....
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How to add attribute to <form> of backend for module
How can I add the attribute enctype="multipart/form-data" to the <form> tag in the configuration page for a module? That attribute is needed to upload a file to the server.
I am trying to ...
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Components Use form.xml without the use of any legacy classes?
How do I without using any legacy structure or classes, use the Joomla feature wich allows you to define forms in an XML file in the folder:
JCOMPONENT_PATH/models/forms
And then import and use ...
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Joomla 3.4 custom fields names strange behavior in JForm
I'm working for FE component with form to make ability to user set some values to filter data from DB (ex: select, text). After user make submit these fields need to show values user have selected ...
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How do I remove and/or change the 'name' field in the registration form so that I can ask for first and last name separately?
I've developed a plugin that allows me to create a custom user profile. It works and I'm able to add/remove fields as necessary.
The issue I'm facing is: How do I remove and/or change the 'name' ...
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How to set the form validation only for the fields that are shown
In the admin side I have a XML form with 2 fields as below. Both the fields are marked as required=true
<field name="field1"
type="text"
label="Field1"
required="true"/>
<field name="...
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Form Validation - Server Side vs Client Side
Just got confused by seeing both type of validations in Joomla. So far my understanding of these 2 is as below
Client Side Validation
Done via jQuery/Javascript on the client browser
Server Side ...
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Loading the options of a select form field via jQuery Ajax
Basically I am trying to load a front-end form select field via jQuery AJAX.
The XML form field is
<field name="student_ids"
type="list"
required="true"
label="Select Students"
multiple="...
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Using JHtml::_('behavior.formvalidator') in JForm gives empty error messages
I'm using Joomla! 3.4 core form validation and it seems to fire perfectly, but the error messages added to the alert are blank, hence I cannot see what the error is.
What am I doing wrong?
Here is ...
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Height and Width are not considered for an editor Form Field
The XML code I have for the editor form field as
<field name="note_desc"
type="editor"
filter="safehtml"
label="Description"
required="true"
height="150" />
Irrespective of the ...
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Passing Arguments for custom field
I need a custom field which has to select the database with some conditions. When customer A logged in this field has to select records belong to customer A only.
The custom field is as below
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Form field type structure
In a Joomla 3.x plugin I need to create several new form field type and in some cases extend already existing core form fields. I know how to do it, but I have some doubts how to structure this files ...
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How to retrieve active filter from a custom field form?
Having followed the excellent explanation for How to create a view with filters and pagination, I have a custom field that filters for the most part. As it is, the code in the custom field is ...
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JForm showon attribute does not work in admin site
I have a form field which needs to be shown depending on value selected for another field. For example
<field name="field1" type="list" label="LABEL1" description="DESC1" filter="intval" size="1" ...
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Adding Custom Fields to Article Component [Not in attribs field]
I am trying to save some additional fields into the Article Content and there has been a few questions like this relating to this issue but all of the solutions seem to point to saving the extra field ...
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JForm in modal window
I create a modal window when clicking on a custom toolbar button, like I was explained here and now the doubt I have is on how to create the JForm for this modal window, because they should submit ...
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Joomla - PHP+$this wrapped in Javascript.
Here is script I have. I'm trying to load it after page display. I'm trying to execute PHP code from javascript. What I need is to get email address of user who submitted the form at the textbox ...
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Component's configuration: Save multiple values
I would like to do this in my config.xml of my component:
<field name="allowedfiletypes"
type="list"
multiple="true"
label="...
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Joomla JForm SQL-Field: Get condition from global configuration
i got the following field in my form.xml-definition:
<field name="attachedto"
type="sql"
label="COM_BESTIA_FIELD_ATTACHEDTO"
query="SELECT id, title FROM #...
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How to get the JformFieldList Value by ID
I created a custom field as below
class JFormFieldPaddyStatus extends JFormFieldList {
protected $type = 'paddystatus';
public function getOptions($id='') {
$options = array();
$...
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Save Dynamic Array of textboxes
I have developed a code to create dynamic textboxes on click of "Add" button using javascript -
Javascript
function GetDynamicTextBox(value,index) {
return
'<input type="text" name="...
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Joomla JForm showon
I would like to extend the functionality of my form I'm using in my admin-backend.
To to that I would like to use the showon-attribute, which should only show a field, if the value of this field is -...
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Let JForm-Fields be dependent on eachother
I would like to solve this problem:
I got some Fields in my Form. Some are Combo-Boxes, Radio Buttons, Text-Inputs and so on.
Now I would like to do the following: If Radio-Button 1 has value 1, ...
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Two left joins and multiple parents for a single record
This issue is extending of the question(s) by the link joomla.stackexchange.com/a/9836/4042 but with condition when child record has not only ONE parent (parent record) but MANY.
With two left joins ...
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AJAX Custom Component - Post data from Editor field
I'm struggling to post data from "editor" form field. When I do it without ajax it shows the value while, with AJAX it just make it blank.
Array ( [subject] => asdasdasdasd [description] => [...
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JSON-DATA: Display input in the com_ back-end and save data in the DB
I'm developing my custom component for storing some records in the DB. In my #__records DB table there is the column attribs where I want to store some data in json-format like:
{"field1":"value1","...
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How to show a search box inside a list form field
How to show a search box inside a 'list' type of form field?
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Dynamically change the "readonly"-tag of JForm Field
I got a JForm and I got some fields in there. I would like to disable a field, if the value of another field is "0". I know that I can do that by preparing the form while loading, but I want to solve ...
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Filter form field values by language
I have a specific requirement of showing categories of selected menu language only. So in my component, I have the field declared as below.
<field name="catid" type="categoryedit" label="JCATEGORY"...
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getUserState() return array where as getItem() return JObject
I am facing a problem with the function loadFormData where there is check whether to pull data from the session or from the table.
protected function loadFormData() {
// Check the session for ...
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Joomla Form - Retrieve Values based on ID (Front End)
I'm using jform and joomla's core features of dealing with forms. i.e. Using XML as forms then storing it with JTable etc.
My custom component has to deal with CRUD operation strictly at front-end. ...
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Load a Single Admin view with multiple tables and forms
We have 2 tables that have data and we need to bring data from both the tables and show in one single view.
We have one single XML file which holds the fields of both the tables.
The function '...
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How to set custom input data in Model
I'm using JTable for CRUD on my application. I've created method in model to save data in database
I need to add custom inputs "created" and "created_by" as shown in "$custom_data" variable and save ...
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Set New XML attribute in custom JFormField
Hi I'm looking to add new field attribute for my custom component.
<field type="myfield" mycustomattribute="somevalue" />
Then, I would like to render it in my HTML. Could someone help with it?...
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Remove form fieldset
I am trying to remove a fieldset from a form.
I have not found a function that does this, so I do it through an array to remove them individually.
$infofield = $form->getFieldset('company');
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Building Component - Replace "Invalid Field: My Field" with Custom Message
I am developing Custom Component for Joomla.
I did well in validating field by adding custom rule. But if entered value does not pass through my validation, it gives error as "Invalid Field: My Field ...
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Array of form fields
I am trying to load a array of form fields as below.
grade.xml
<field name="gralev_code[]"
type="text"
class="width20"
label="JSCH_GRALEV_CODE"
/>
default.php
$this->form->...
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3.x form array?
Is there a way to have the same field in an array when posting the data? Since I need the tabs in my component to be generated dynamically depending on the querys output, I can't enter them ...
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Custom XML attributes not showing in HTML markup
Here is the XML for a particular form field:
<field type="text" name="first-name" id="first-name" label="MOD_LABEL_FIRST_NAME"
required="required" maxlength="27" color="yellow" />
My ...
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Dynamically add fields to component's menu edit form
I am looking to add parameters to the edit-view of my component's menu editor on the fly instead of statically defining them as you normally would (as described : https://docs.joomla.org/J3.x:...
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Joomla list formfield stays empty on runtime load
I face the problem, that I have list formfield, where no values have been set in the xml formfield description. The values for the listfield will be created on runtime via jquery. When I choose a ...
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JFormFieldRepeatable—can store only one row
I am trying to use the »repeatable« form field. Right now I have this in code in the templateDetails.xml
<config>
<fields name="params">
<fieldset name="advanced">
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