Questions tagged [joomla-4.x]
For questions regarding version 4.x of the Joomla! Content Management System.
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Using namespase USE in a module
I'm writing several joomla modules and I'd like to put common functions in the libraries folder. However I want to use them from a joomla Ajax call in my module. I'm preparing to upgrade from 3.x to ...
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Unable to display jevent modules when a site is visited but not logged on
When a user is logged into my site he can see and update all events and see then calendar module. When we have a guest user like most of the users they can't display the calendar. Joomla 4.2.9. I ...
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Article slideshow
I wanted to use Bootstrap 5 carousel/sildeshow on my Joomla CMS v4.
I recently updated to Joomla 4 and the previous slideshow component isnt compatible so I am left with a load of articles which ...
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Reinstall template
I have an installed template on the site all ready, but I want to reinstall it without removing any content. From my understanding you can just remove the entry from the database?
How do I do it.
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Register Plugin/Class Joomla
We have a custom login plugin which extends the CMSPlugin.
I am trying to register the Class of the plugin inside a module but the following scenarios occur.
Case 1
JLoader::register('...
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Change database password?
I am trying to change the Joomla database password. I cannot figure it out. If I change the password in the database first, then Joomla is unable to use it, because it no longer has access to the ...
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Joomla 4 Upgrade issue with custom component
I have a custom component that I've inherited. I've upgraded the site to Joomla 4 with no problems but when going to the frontend, am getting an error:
Fatal error: Class CloudCardModelCard contains 1 ...
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NEWBIE - How to set a default value in the xml file for a plugin field
I am trying to update a very nice Joomla 3 plugin to Joomla 4 because the plugin creator did not update it himself.
Upgrade is almost ok except that if no default value is set for one of the ...
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Boolean Logic not working in Joomla 4 Smart Search when wrapping two words within quotation marks
I am having a problem with my site at https://www.shalomadventure.com where the Smart Search is not respecting the Boolean login. If I wrap two words within parentheses and do a search we are getting ...
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Joomla 4 - Category blog view - hide content of article
Am I missing something here? Using Joomla 4 and Cassiopeia template.
On the category blog view, I just want to output the article image and title. But underneath that is the WHOLE article text.
Is ...
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Custom module chrome is not working in Joomla 4
I have copied the card.php file from templates/cassiopeia/html/layouts/chromes and placed it in my templates/MYTEMPLATE/html/layouts/chromes folder, and then made some modifications to the styling. ...
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Adding a Tag to an Article (in PHP)
In J4, when I want to set a value to a Custom Field, I use the following code and it works fine:
$model = new FieldModel(array('ignore_request' => true));
$model->setFieldValue(2, $item->id, '...
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Setting template color scheme
I just want to create a new color scheme and replace the root primary colors with it, how do I proceed?
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Joomla 4 - Subcategory title in category blog
I am using a Category Blog to show items from 2 categories using the subcategory option.
Cat 1
---- article 1
---- article 2
---- article 3
Cat 2
---- article 1
---- article 2
---- article 3
All of ...
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Use Ajax to refresh available options
I'm struggling with coding an ajax refresh of options in a select list based on what's already selected in the previous field.
Scenario is I get a list of positions and each position one or many ...
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Category blog - 8 column layout
I have a fresh install of Cassiopeia/Joomla 4 and I am trying to give the Category blog 8 columns. When I add that number under Blog Layout it reverts to 1 column? Values 1-4 seem to work. But ...
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Migrate Users from Joomla 3 to Joomla 4 with same UserIds and Passwords
So I successfully migrated users from a Joomla 3 database into a Joomla 4 database. I am hoping there is a nicer way if anyone has done it.
In particular, I couldn't work out how to create a user ...
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Migrating custom module to Joomla 4
I have a Joomla 3.x module which calls the category name from the database and then shows this in the module position.
It does this with:
$db = &JFactory::getDBO();
$id = JRequest::...
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Cassiopeia hamburger menu doesnt collapse
Fresh install of Joomla 4 with the Cassiopeia template and I just set the menu module layout to collapsible Dropdown.
Now the hamburger menu is there for mobile and it will expand but not close? It ...
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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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Virtuemart class 'JDispatcher' not found error when upgrade Joomla 3 to Joomla 4
I'm using Virtuemart 3 and Joomla 3, after upgrarding to VM 4 and Joomla 4, it say error Class 'JDispatcher' not found from JROOT/plugins/vmshipment/rules_shipping_advanced/...
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I am trying to use joomla.asset.json for a custom template, but I get a white page - why?
I have created a custom Joomla 4x template called 'toccata'. I have a joomla.asset.json file (shown further down below). The file is listed in my templateDetails.xml file and I thought I'd done ...
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How to use NOW() with DatabaseDriver->insertObject()
I'm inserting an object in a database table using joomla 4, as per joomla docs:
$toInsert = new stdClass();
$toInsert->update_timestamp = 'NOW()';
$toInsert->id = null;
$db = Factory::...
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Number of articles in multiples sub-categories
I use mod_articles_category to display a list of categories with their articles.
I need to display the total of articles next to each category title.
I've tried with <?php echo $item->numitems; ?...
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Joomla 4: get all users in a usergroup
I need an array of all usernames from a certain usergroup.
How can I update my Joomla 3 component code for use in Joomla 4?
jimport( 'joomla.access.access' );
$customers = JAccess::getUsersByGroup(2);
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Webservices returns The requested URL was not found on this server with a 404
When using Webservices on my local development environment, but the problem is not unique to local environments, I received the following message for even the core features,
The requested URL was not ...
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Joomla login module Ajax Request
Is it possible to login the user in frontend through Ajax request and without all this redirecting? I am using the joomla login module and trying to extend it but so far no results.
I have this js
<...
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Display current article's specific custom field in module
Im using Joomla 4. And for some reasons I need to publish my articles with joomla 4 custom html module that shows specific custom fields of current article.
I have changed mod_custom's default.php ...
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Joomla 4: how to add tags in the template of mod_tags_similar?
How to add tags in the template of mod_tags_similar? I add custom fields and other data by this code
$db = JFactory::getDbo();
$query = $db->getQuery(true)
->select($db->quoteName(array('...
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Error When Saving Modules After J3 - J4 Migration
Recently migrated a J3 site to J4.2.8
I had to uninstall a lot of plugins before the migration, and a few after, but everything appears to be working apart from one thing.
In the Joomla admin area, ...
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Joomla 4 SEF URLs broken since upgrade
We upgraded from Joomla 3 to Joomla 4 and since upgrading have found that many (almost all) links on the site are broken.
Here is an example of a broken link:
https://guildofenamellers.org/index.php/...
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Joomla 4 com_users edit.php password validation
In com_users edit.php - the html helper password validation is not taking into account the password complexity that I have setup in the User backend. I have 12 chars minimum, upper, lower and special ...
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Joomla 4 - 'Edit My Profile' Form - create custom generic form
I have created a custom (com_users/profile/edit.php). I have created a custom form that I would like to use - however, when I save the form - the value do not store in the db and the page does not ...
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Why can't Discover find my extension or What is Discover looking for?
As a result of a mistake I made in the way I set up an extensions symlinks my extension was not being found when using the Discover feature of Joomla, this lead me to stepping through the installer ...
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Store Joomla content into javascript variable
let's say my Joomla is deployed in the Root subfolder ,
*root
**Joomla
soo the index.php for Joomla resides in root/Joomla.
now I want to render Joomla content through Javascript from the root but ...
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Limiting date range with DP-Calender's export to ics file?
I'm using DP-Calendar (free) on a Joomla 4 website. In the calendar view, there is a link to export a calendar in iCal format (*.ics file). Unfortunately, all entries are exported with this link.
Does ...
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Joomla Manifest XML works in XAMPP but doesn't work in Hosting
I created a template for Joomla 4x, it works well in XAMPP, but doesn't work well in my Hosting, it is Installed successfully in my hosting but I got an Error when I try to access the template ...
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Joomla plugin ajax request / class extend
I have created a "custom" authentication plugin and inside of it there is a function (onAjaxMyfunction) that is called from a module through com_ajax.
The call "url" looks like ...
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How to initialize joomla modal through js
I'm customizing a view in my component, I have tabs, each tab contains a modal, but when adding a new tab using js, I don't know how to initialize the new tab's modal via js?
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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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Joomla4 pagination issue in component on prev, next
Facing problem in joomla pagination
when component upgraded from joomla 3 to 4
with same css, although buttons are working in joomla 4 with click taking to prev, first on left side and on right side ...
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Component Dashboard - config not showing
I have a dashboard setup for my component which works fine but I wanted to allow a user in the administrator usergroup to have access to the components parameters. So set the permissions in the ...
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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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Connecting to an external database in Joomla 4 - further problem
I have seen the earlier question on this subject and tried the suggested code:
$db = (new Joomla\Database\DatabaseFactory)->getDriver('mysqli', $options);
but get an error:
An error has occurred ...
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Call to undefined method Joomla\CMS\Application\ConsoleApplication::getTemplate()
I am converting some Joomla 3 CLI applications to use the Joomla Console and this message is causing my new CLI's to fail. There are various entries in Joomla tracker relating to similar issues where ...
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Joomla 4 API for lightbox
I'm trying to upgrade my site to Joomla 4.
In Joomla 3 I used "JHTML::_('behavior.modal');" to display a link to an image inside a lightbox. As also explained in this question: Joomla API ...
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Tutorial for creating joomla template
I read the tutorial about how to create a Joomla template from https://docs.joomla.org/Creating_a_basic_Joomla!_template , but when I scrutiny the Standard template bundled within Joomla 4.x (...
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Activate jquery with javascript
I'd like to create a Joomla module, but it requires jquery to operate, the problem is whether Jquery is activated (imported) before is still unknown, import jquery through <script src> may cause ...
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Tables and needed columns in Joomla 4
On the Page
https://www.dionysopoulos.me/book/com-tables.html#com-tables-get-object I read:
The table MUST have the following columns:
parent_id. The primary key of the parent node. Provides ...
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Custom component categories missing after upgrade from 3.10 to 4.x
I have a custom component that integrates com_categories in it, after upgrading from joomla 3.10 to 4.x, and fixing all the errors of my component on joomla 4.x, when accessing the categories menu, ...
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