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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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JControllerForm and JControllerAdmin

In simplest terms both are subcontrollers for JControllerLegacy. JControllerAdmin is essentially the controller for tasks such as displaying a list of records from the database. JControllerForm is t …
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com_users login redirect issue

Create a hidden menu, add the login page to that menu and leave it set to public. Create a login module and set your redirect page with the module parameters. Publish the module and have the module s …
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Using a non-numeric ID in a backend component

You have a couple of options here: 1) Easiest is to create a new auto increment field in your table and use that ID for your editing layout. 2) In your list view create a link that goes to the editi …
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Get user id from user form field type

Here is the code you would put in your models/forms XML file: <field name="modified_user_id" type="sql" label="JGLOBAL_FIELD_MODIFIED_BY_LABEL" description="Assign …
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How to get menu parameters and itemid in component controller

Use the following: $menu =& JSite::getMenu(); $activeMenu = $menu->getActive(); $Itemid = $activeMenu->id; or $menu =& JSite::getMenu(); $activeMenu = $menu->getActive(); …
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Calling category title params from a com_content

Here is a quick bit of code that will retrieve the category name for you. This code assumes that you are on an article page. <?php $JInput = JFactory::getApplication()->input; $articleId = $JInput-> …
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custom table display - help turning static html to dynamic php

The jQuery function was operating against all elements with the assigned target class. The result of that was all dropdowns opening simultaneously. The resolution was to assign a unique ID to each of …
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How to execute an ajax script to update form fields in an .xml file rendered by Akeeba FOF?

If I understand what you are trying to accomplish the easy way to do this would be with a bit of jQuery and an ajax call. Add a method to one of your controller files that returns the value of the own …
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