Questions tagged [joomla-4.x]
For questions regarding version 4.x of the Joomla! Content Management System.
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How to authenticate a user with the official Joomla 4 REST API?
I am developing a mobile app that needs to authenticate users with a Joomla 4 site. I want to use the official Joomla REST API to do this, but I couldn’t find any information about how to authenticate ...
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Joomla 4 Router forward to Controller function
For a Joomla 4 component I just cannot figure out how to successfully forward or call a Controller function from within a custom Router.
This is the Controller - it basically loads an image:
<?php
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Create date fields with the default null value facing error incorrect date field in Joomla 4
Create a date field in the XML form
field name="nextdate" type="calendar" class="inputbox" filter="safehtml" label="COM_COMDATE_FORM_LBL_COMDATEDETAIL_NEXTDATE" description="...
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Tags not saving for Joomla category custom component with the correct entry in the #__content_type for the Joomla 4 and Jooma 3
Created field type category in the custom component com_drawing
but not able to save the tags in the category(refer to the image)
Table entry in the table #__content_types
INSERT INTO #...
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Sendmail by using Joomla! settings is very slow
In my Joomla! 4.2+ component, i have something with send mail when an user submit a from, the issue is that the sending mail process is very slow. My component fetch the mail settings from the Joomla! ...
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Cannot access form in Joomla 4 frontend
In Joomla 4.3.4 I have created a menu item Create Article for a specific category. When I try to create a new Article and enter the edit view, I get the following error:
0 htmlspecialchars(): Argument ...
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Filling custom fields when creating an article with an script via the API
I am creating an article in Joomla 4 using the excellent code that is suggested here: Joomla 4 create article programmatically
My task is write the values of the custom field simultaneously with the ...
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$this->params() is Null in Joomla 4 Plugin
I have a Joomla 4 plugin that uses a ServiceProvider which basically works fine. It's just that I can't access the plugin's configuration parameters.
namespace <Domain>\Plugin\System\Replacer\...
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[J4]Trying to add a user to Group with addUserToGroup()
I'm trying to use the UserHelper::addUserToGroup() to add a usergroup to a user. This is in my component when I publish one of my records, I want the owning user of that record to be added to a ...
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how to update item by using ajax on custom component joomla 4
Dears
My component was a bit old. So I started to do it again on joomla 4. I have been looking for a few days, how to update or create data items by using Ajax in joomla 4.
i found a lot of feedback ...
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Joomla 4 - hide custom fields in category blog
I am using some custom fields at article level. These are also showing on the category blog view. How do I disable these? Am I being stupid or do I really need to create an override for such a trivial ...
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htaccess QSA not working in Joomla 4
Migrating a Joomla 3 component to Joomla 4 I have problems with getting Apache Server htaccess correctly configured to append query string from request to substituted URL - QSA flag. - It looks like ...
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Legacy component + jquery + SEO = 404
I have a legacy joomla 4 component that saves something back to the server using jquery. It works fine with SEO turned off, but I get a 404 error with SEO turned on. The URL parameter for the jquery ...
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Casseiopa template - Bootstrap Carousel
I am trying to display a carousel in an article using the bootstrap code.
This is a new Joomla 4 install using the casseiopa template. Here is my code:
<div class="d-flex justify-content-...
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J4 URL routing - cannot remove menu alias from URL - SEF issue
I've migrated a J3 site to J4 and have an issue with article URL's. In J3 an article would load /category/article i.e. https://old.lymington.com/133-locally/1458-a-guide-to-beaches-near-lymington-and-...
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Href properties of the main menu items are empty just on the live site
I have updated a website from Joomla 3 to Joomla 4 on my local machine.
When I upload it all the main menu items are shown on the frontend with the HREF fields empty.
I can't understand why this is ...
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Passing the current user to an external php file
I'm updating a working J3 system where one menu item is an iframe wrapper which runs an external php program which needs to know the current user.
I've been updating the first part of this file to use ...
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How to load and render a view of a component from another's component template file?
Note: Question fully updated with the latest findings:
I want to load a com_contact contact view inside a template override of an article.
I have a contact item id and trying to load the record and ...
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ALERTS FRONTPAGE
I have alerts in frontpage that I have not been able to fix for months
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https://redes.editorasalvaje.net/recursos-...
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Review of php script to clean up orphaned images / pdfs on joomla 4
I have written the following php script and would like some critique of the script and suggested improvements.
My motivation was to reduce server backup times and save energy by not backing up ...
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Can we create single view in Joomla four without table file to just HTML code
I want to create a single view=help to display HTML code instead of the form view=item&layout=edit to the Joomla 4 Components administrator area, is it possible to achieve it?
right now I am ...
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Linking to a category list item
I have a Joomla 4 menu item of type "List All Categories in an Article Category Tree". The menu item is FAQ, which sits under another menu item labelled Help. There is a category with an ...
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MySQL "LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE" with database connection object in Joomla 4
In order to import large CSV files into a Joomla database table, I use the MySQL "LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE" command as follows:
$db = $this->getDbo();
$sql = "LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '&...
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Joomla 4 Backend select menu item that "should" be active
My new component will have an Import View in the backend where the users are able to import db stuff.
Because there are multiple types like teams, players, locations, referees, ... the imports are ...
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Cannot access protected property Joomla\CMS\Menu\MenuItem::$params
Updating a demobar component from J3 and the view will not get my demo items for the dropdown from my model. Hoping someone could help me with getting the proper parameters for the menu.
I am getting ...
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How do I create a sticky sidebar in Joomla 4?
I would like to create a sticky sidebar in Joomla 4. In other words, I would like to display a module next to an article in one of the sidebar positions. When the article scrolls up, the module must ...
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Force 404 error in J4 when php file called
this is related to my previous question regarding [native J4 redirects][1]. I'm looking at a workaround but my previous question is still valid.
I'm using [Jbusiness][2] and where previously we could ...
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Jinput getAray not retrieving RAW details from codemirror editor in Joomla 4
I am busy with a project to convert an Joomla 3 template to Joomla 4. The Jinput is not giving me RAW data it is removing the script tags from my inputs. I worked through a couple of similar problems ...
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blog news with inside article summary and login form to read the whole article
I have a need to create a news section but which is password protected via login form. What I can't find is the ability to show a small summary of the article and then show the login/registration form ...
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Joomla 4 AJAX request and Cyrillic characters
There is an input field of type text - pib_input
I am sending to the Ajax server
let pib_input = $('#pib_input').val();
console.log(pib_input);
$.ajax({
data: { [token]: "1&...
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Joomla 4.3.3 Imported Redirects not working
more of a query than anything. I've imported some redirects using the Import option in J4 but I've just noticed that if the original page still exists, the redirect does not work.
It does say in the ...
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Missing /media/cms/css/debug.css
While using browser developer tools I noticed an error in my joomla 4 site:
Refused to apply style from 'https://[server]/media/cms/css/debug.css'
because its MIME type ('text/html') is not a ...
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Query with MAX(time) doesn't return int
I have the following query on Mariadb 10.4.x with Php 8.1, the issue is that the loadResult() doesn't return int :
$query = $this->_db->getQuery(true);
$query->select('MAX(time)')
->...
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I need a simple Example of a Custom Field in a Joomla 4 Component
For my Project i need to have a Custom Field that gets all "Sponsors" from a related table, the user can then select the items and link them to a "location" so define the sponsors ...
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Multi-level Dependent Drop Down Lists by Joomla 4 SQL Custom Field
I need to create a Multi-level Dependent Drop Down List to show my Joomla Categories list in the first dropdown list and then show the related articles in the second dropdown list (based on the value ...
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How to properly add a query parameter to my Router?
Given the following menu entries
Route::_('index.php?option=com_mycomponent&view=categories&extension=com_mycomponent.countries') should return '/countries' but in fact it returns '/diseases'....
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Joomla 4 Component SEF URL not working for detail page of the item when catid is added in the url
Below is the have written the code router file in the component
namespace Test\Component\Test\Site\Service;
// No direct access
defined('_JEXEC') or die;
use Joomla\CMS\Component\Router\...
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Add intro or full image to a component/module Joomla 4
I'm not good in php, more a css/sass html specialist. I had an module (latest articles) and I needed to add the intro image. With Joomla 3 I did it like this:
<div class="nieuwsfotos" ...
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How to add separators / dividers in Joomla 4 Custom Components (Sub-)Menu?
There are these nice loking seperators / dividers in the core content component's menu:
I've tried already to add the following in my XML without success:
<menu class="divider">sep&...
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Joomla 4 - change in way URLs generated compared to Joomla 3
I've copied the exact menus and menu structured over from a J3 website to a J4 website but the resulting URL tree is generating differently on the J4 site.
For example the old J3 URL is: https://old....
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Joomla 4 Custom Component > Custom Fields Integration
I'm curently developing a (free) Custom Joomla 4.x component. Now im struggeling while implementing Custom Fields support for my first (and currently only) context. The issue is that the "Fields&...
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Joomla 4 Email Single User
Is it possible to email an individual user from within the Joomla 4 admin area?
Preferably without using a paid plugin.
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J4 Component: Add Modified By and Modified On Database Record when using JForm and an AdminModel Model
I am creating a new Joomla J4 component for my website. I have previously created components in J3 using Akeeba's Framework on Framework. For J4 I'm working to learn how to create a J4 MVC native ...
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Using MySQL "LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE" with the Joomla database connection object
In a Joomla 3 component I use the MySQL "LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE" command to import large CSV files into a Joomla database table.
When moving to a new server, it is no longer possible to ...
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Help with update a JoomlaCli-Application from Joomla 3 to Joomla 4
I'm working with a JoomlaCli Application, called from a external php command via a cronjob. It worked in Joomla 3, but in Joomla 4 some classes have changed.
Our class name is import
Namespaces:
use ...
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Help with URL rewrite (REGEX?) following J3 to J4 migration
Up against it at the minute so my brain seems to be going off in the wrong direction.
I have migrated a very large site from J3 to J4. The J3 article URL's look like the below:
/133-locally/1984-...
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Restricting New User "Assigned User Group" Options for Manager Level Accounts
I've created a new user group under the "Manager" ACL called "User Manager". The only function of the "User Manager" is to create or delete "Registered" user ...
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gestion des formulaires et des membres inscrits
On behalf of an association, I make a new site that involves forms.
I use Joomla 4 and Nicepage essentially. The site is in 2 parts: public and private. The private part requires registration which ...
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How to create an instance of the Joomla CMS from the browser or the command line
Recently there have been a number of questions posted on JSE relating to how to load the Framework that in most cases is really asking how to load up the Joomla CMS either from a command line or via a ...
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Joomla 4: no need for Route::_($url)?
I am using this on a custom component:
$url = index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=427&id=15106
Both
echo $url;
echo Route::_($url);
will output a friendly url.
I'm guessing ...
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