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How to override a form field in Joomla 4
Apparently, you need to use namespaces in your extension to override fields with the same type. This is because of the class lookup order:
Namespaces added using addfieldprefix attribute or
Joomla\...
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Prefill subform with data rows
You need to put the subform data one array deeper. This is because your subform has multiple attribute which means the data should be represented by multiple rows:
$prefillData = array("contacts&...
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Is there an easy way to build a form in Joomla that stores the currently logged in user's name?
If you don't need to use the username for something else (which might require coding that you're trying to avoid), I know that RSForms has global placeholders for data it automatically saves for the ...
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Is the following everything one should do to prevent SQL injection?
First, when reading user input you should make sure it's the correct type. The Input/Filter APIs don't handle array/string conversion. So if you're expecting STRING filter to return a string be aware ...
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Assign user to a specific group based on custom field selected
Write user plugin which will have the below file structure
plugins/user/plugins_name/
plg_add_group.php
plg_add_group.xml
plg_add_group.xml
- Write plugin manifest code here you can ...
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How to to create a multi-layered form system
The short answer is: you will need the assistance of a Joomla Programmer as it's highly improbable you'll find a plug-in that suits your requirements.
First of all, I think what you are looking for ...
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XML form related fields
Have you tried to use Subform field?. It allows you to nest XML forms inside each other or reuse your existing forms inside your current form. And your need, you can combine it with showon attribute.
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joomla loadFormData
I ran into this as well and have learned the following: the loadFormData can indeed used to load previously saved data back into the form and Joomla does not seem to set the form data to the user ...
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User Registration Assign to Specific Group
Briefly, these are your main options:
Write a custom user registration component
Write a User Plugin that will handle the usergroup of the registered users
Use 3rd party Form extensions which ...
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Component/module for registering to get document
You can create a form that prompts for an email address and then provides a download link using most of the forms extensions available in Joomla. There are plenty of them available at https://...
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Save multiple list custom field for component
I found the solution on this so i share it jsut in case someone else needs this.
I've added part of code in 2 places. First on the table file, in bind function:
if (isset($array['...
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Joomla! 3.8 - How to hide Publishing Tab in front end
Apart of customizing the Article Edit Form - you could consider using 3rd party extensions.
There are 2 major types/categories of extensions that would be suitable for this:
Front-end article ...
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Joomla! 3.8 - How to hide Publishing Tab in front end
Okay, a solution has been found.
It appears that somewhere in the back end a new article requires the category to be set. It also appears that its a lot easier to pick and choose what items to see in ...
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Component/software recommendation?
Forms Extensions
Many of the forms extensions can help with redisplaying and editing submitted data.
ChronoForms can certainly do this. RSForm! Pro can probably do this also.
Forms extensions in ...
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Joomla 3.7 change value in database after form button press
Since you are using a form extension you need to do it following its options and features. I haven't that big experience with Chronoforms but I would look for an on-submit option to run custom code. I ...
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Don't add empty fields to database after submission?
There's no generic answer to the question because the code that sits between a form submission and a database table varies wildly from application to application. Perhaps more importantly, different ...
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How to develop a survey extension which prevents respondents from taking a survey more than once?
Some more ideas:
Save a cookie in the user's browser.
Get users IP address and store in BD.
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Joomla post requests
The problem was me not adding the Cookie manager at the dtart of the code, as such for every get request to the server i received a new Token, and so after adding the Cookie manager i was able to get ...
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Cannot extend my custom component's validation rules -- does not validate
Just do
addrulepath="components/com_mycomponent/models/rules"
and leave out the /myrule.php.
I presume you're terminating the <field .../> ok in the XML and adding <?php at the start of ...
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Update List field rendering after ajax update
If you're using ChosenJS, which is the fancy select library that Joomla 3.x uses, then you'll need to manually instruct it to update the list, because it doesn't use any observers by default.
You can ...
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Pop up AcyMailing subscription form
I see that you have modelled your development upon this page:
https://www.w3schools.com/howto/tryit.asp?filename=tryhow_js_toggle_class
However, that demo has a separation between the element with the ...
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How adjust "Maximum upload size" indicator for file upload?
If you'd like to perform this override for all file form fields only within your component, then you can override the layout at component level.
To do this copy the following layout:
layouts/joomla/...
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How to dynamically reload admin-form-fields in Joomla
I consider this a very valuable question that does not have good write-ups/tutorials yet in Joomla documents (we should create one). I am trying to give here some workable info on this.
Loading Form ...
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custom form list field add disabled options - create optgroups
My question could be solved by the comments of mickmackusa and Sharky.
I have finally extended the JFormFieldGroupedList as follows:
defined('JPATH_PLATFORM') or die;
JFormHelper::loadFieldClass('...
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Component/module for registering to get document
Acymail is a very good extension that would allow you to register/collect email addresses and you can then send one or more follow up emails which could be your document or have your document attached ...
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Changing plugin parameter field value dynamicaly
You're actually doing it as intended within Joomla. Here's a bit of background to explain why you're right, and for the sake of others who may be interested.
Overall the Joomla Form Basic API guide ...
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Get the form fields as defined in the form xml file
There is Joomla\CMS\Form\Form::getFieldset() method for returning an array of fields belonging to a fieldset as Joomla\CMS\Form\FormField objects.
$fieldNames = [];
foreach ($form->getFieldset('...
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Create Custom Form via SimpleXMLElement
Unfortunately the Joomla error message is a bit misleading here. It's not complaining about your $xml element passed in, but rather than the basic <form> structure hasn't been initialised ...
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How to set Form Field Client-Side Validation Error Message?
For static text use data-validation-text attribute:
<input name="test" class="form-validate validate-test" data-validation-text="Value is invalid">
In case you're ...
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Associate template to getMailer class
Within Joomla you could use JLayout.
$body = JLayoutHelper::render('path.to.layout');
$mailer->setBody($body);
If you have any variables you need to use in the layout, pass them as second ...
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