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Joomla 3.x extension development tutorial for a beginner developer
I will provide the list of my bookmarked links and a list with links for Joomla Development Books, with various resources all around Joomla Development. I hope they will be useful for anyone ...
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How can I control the module display on pages with no menu item?
Solution 1 : hidden menu
If your pages also need pretty sef urls, you can make a hidden menu and link those articles in the hidden menu. A hidden menu means that you don't create a module for it, you ...
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How to develop a Joomla module?
Learning Joomla Module Development
The way I learned, was by studying and customizing the core or other 3rd party modules.
Modules as concept are simpler than the components (which we could say are 2 ...
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How to create page only with modules and no component?
There isn't really a 'better way' than that.
The only other option is to check whether you're on the homepage in your template file. To check if you're on the homepage you can use the method ...
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How to develop a Joomla module?
Have you seen the following tutorials in the joomla documentation?
http://docs.joomla.org/J2.5:Creating_a_simple_module
http://docs.joomla.org/J3.3:Creating_a_simple_module
In particular, make sure ...
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What are the module styles?
By default you could use the following styles:
none (output raw module content)
html5 (chosen html5 tag and font headder tags)
table (wraps the module in a table)
horz (wraps the tabled module output ...
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How do I generate a SEF URL in a custom module instead of the real URL?
Use JRoute for this:
rtrim(JUri::base(), '/') . JRoute::_(ContentHelperRoute::getArticleRoute( $article->id, $article->catid ))
but you don't need JUri::base() if you don't want to link to a ...
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Meaning of the "version" in any extension XML manifest file
First version tag specifies the xml version.
Please refer W3 standards for XML
Second version tag identifies the version of Joomla for which this extension is developed.
And third version stands for ...
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Available fields in Joomla XML manifest
Numerous types of form field are built into Joomla, with many usefull fields like calendar, color picker, image picker, file upload, file selection etc.:
Available Fields
+---------------------+-------...
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Module parameters in main tab
Use <fieldset name="basic"> instead of <fieldset name="options" label="My Parameters">
Then name of fieldset must be basic otherwise it will create a new tab.
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How to conditionally show fields in module xml?
You can use Joomla's showon attribute in your field.
Here's an exmaple:
<field name="first" type="list" label="Select Something">
<option value="1">Option 1</option>
<...
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Custom menu get title of the active menu's parent item
Try this code:
$menu = JFactory::getApplication()->getMenu();
$parent = $menu->getItem( $menu->getActive()->parent_id );
$parentname = $parent->title
If you need the link
$parentlink ...
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How to modify article structure?
I believe I have your solution, but do NOT hack the core. We felt forced to do that over the years, and we're still paying the price even today, missing updates, revisiting hacks everytime we do ...
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How to display module in component area
I have done this by creating a module position at the same location with the component and checking if a module is present at this position then display it, otherwise go for the component:
Code ...
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How to display module in component area
To enhance the given answers here:
To include a modul position in your component view and to load modules there, you just have to add
echo JHtml::_('content.prepare', '{loadposition ...
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What's the difference between JHtml:script() and $doc->addScript?
JHtml::script has additional logic included. See http://api.joomla.org/cms-3/classes/JHtml.html#method_script for the API reference
By default it will detect debug setting and browser used and load ...
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Which class method should I use for deprecated JDocumentRenderer->render();
Instead of JDocumentRenderer you should use JModuleHelper to render modules:
foreach($modules as $mod)
{
echo JModuleHelper::renderModule($mod, $attribs);
}
See renderModule() method.
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How can I control the module display on pages with no menu item?
You can't do it with default Joomla. Only by menu item.
Take a look at advanced module manager by RegularLabs which gives you more assignment options.
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Default menu assignment for a new module
Advanced Module Manager by nonumber allows this
http://www.nonumber.nl/extensions/advancedmodulemanager
I do not know if the free version includes it but I would assume it would, in the Options for ...
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Joomla 3.x extension development tutorial for a beginner developer
I can recommend the official doc page. There is a section for developers which includes also tutorials. http://docs.joomla.org/Portal:Developers
David Hurley is currently doing a series of short ...
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Copying Joomla Menu Items and keeping Module assignements
You can't do that as modules are assigned to a menu item id and saving a menu item as new will give it a new menu Id which no modules are assigned to.
Moving an item will keep its id but not copying.
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Joomla 3.x extension development tutorial for a beginner developer
Previous answers are comprehensive about Joomla Core MVC. As an alternative MVC for Joomla, FOF
https://www.akeebabackup.com/documentation/fof/introducing-fof.html#what-is-fof
https://github.com/...
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Folder create when user register joomla website?
If you write a small User Plugin, you can use something like this to create the folder.
class PlgUserExample extends JPlugin
{
public function onUserAfterSave($user, $isnew, $success, $msg)
{ ...
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How to assign a module to different pages
To assign modules to pages;
Joomla 2.5 instructions
Log into the Joomla administrator area of your site
Select the Extensions menu and Module manager menu
Open the module/menu you have created
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Where to place code in Joomla modules
helper.php:
This file is where all your functions belonging to a class should go. It's basically the module version of a model for a component, so tasks such as performing database queries etc. The ...
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How to get module parameters inside helper function and how to get params inside a custom form field type?
1. How to get Modules parameters inside Helper Function
You are going all wrong with this.
First, you can't use $this inside a static method, because they are independent of any instantiated object. ...
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How to get module parameters inside helper function and how to get params inside a custom form field type?
I much prefer going for the OOP approach. This is what I use in one of my extensions. It's Ajax based so I have a separate function to get the parameters.
helper.php:
class ModSomethingHelper
{
...
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How can I make a site like StackExchange with Joomla?
Theres a whole Questions and Answers category in the JED including:
JE Stack Exchange (free)
JE Stack Exchange Pro (paid)
Minitek Discussions Pro (paid)
which seem to have the basic functionality of ...
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What does "Prepare Content" do and when should it be used?
Prepare Content will enable the onContentPrepare plugins event for the content of the module. So the custom html module's html content will go through the process of content plugins, similar to what ...
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Show/hide module title not working
Check this:
joomlaroot/templates/yourtemplate/html/modules.php
and search for something like this:
if($module->showtitle){echo $module->title;}
Is there only echo $module->title; without ...
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