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Marc Rasmussen
Marc Rasmussen

Reputation: 20565

getting the instance of controllers Joomla

So im trying to create my first component and for this ive created the following controller:

    <?php
defined('_JEXEC') or die ('Access denied!');
/**
 * Created by JetBrains PhpStorm.
 * User: Marc
 * Date: 18-08-13
 * Time: 02:18
 * To change this template use File | Settings | File Templates.
 */
jimport( 'joomla.application.component.controller' );
class MyCompController implements  JController{

    function create(){
        echo "Welcome to create";
    }

    function delete (){
        $id =JRequest::getVar('id');
        echo "you want to delete "-$id;
    }

}

Now i am not very familiar with joomla and could only find documentation for 2.5 where

$controller = JController::getInstance('MyComp');

was a relevant way to get your controller instance.

i looked at the interface and JController interface does not supply a getInstance method because of this i tried:

$controller = JController::getApplication('MyComp');

But with no luck.

So how do you get the controller?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2052

Answers (2)

nibra
nibra

Reputation: 4028

Your component has a bootstrap script with the same name as your component. In your case, that would be mycomp.php. That file is included by Joomla, whenever a request with option=mycomp occurs. There you setup and call your controller:

$controller = new MyCompController;
$controller->execute(JFactory::getApplication()->input->getCmd('task'));
$controller->redirect();

Upvotes: 3

Tom
Tom

Reputation: 2634

I'm not exactly sure what your trying to accomplish. But I think what you need is in the Joomla 2.5 tutorial.

You need to have a file called MyComp.php like they define HelloWorld.php in the link above.

That's it. Then when you create a view with some code, say a form:

<form action='index.php?option=com_MyComp&task=delete'>
....
</form>

This will access your controller's code for the delete function.

On another note, it may be easier to create the template you need for your component with Component Creator. Nice free online tool that builds the template, all the kids use it.

Upvotes: 1

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