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Richard
Richard

Reputation: 733

joomla component with different pages

I am creating a component (no MVC) for my joomla site and I would like to have 2 php pages that I can display.

So I have myprog.php and myprog2.php in the site folder. In order to be able to select the myprog.php to assign it to a menu, I have created a default.xml file in the folder /site/views/myprog/tmpl/

And it contains:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<metadata>
        <layout title="COM_MYPROG_DEFAULT_TITLE">
                <message>
                        <![CDATA[COM_MYPROG_DEFAULT_DESC]]>
                </message>
        </layout>
</metadata>

How can I have this for my second page so that I can select the second page to assign it to a menu?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 150

Answers (2)

Gaurav
Gaurav

Reputation: 28775

You need to create one more file same as default.xml at the same location. Its name will be layout name as well. For example its name is blog.xml. When you create menu of this, then it will automatically add layout=blog in url.

As you are not using MVC then you can check for layout variable in get values and can work accordingly.

And if you use MVC pattern, then you just need to set layout in view and create tmpl files which must start with layout name. for example : tmpl file in default and blog layout will be like

default.php => blog.php
default_edit.php => blog_edit.php

Upvotes: 0

pcrikos
pcrikos

Reputation: 87

I would use MVC :-) If you insist, Here there is an article on how to add a parameter in the menu instance creation: http://docs.joomla.org/Developing_a_Model-View-Controller_%28MVC%29_Component_for_Joomla!2.5_-_Part_06#site.2Fviews.2Fhelloworld.2Ftmpl.2Fdefault.xml

It contains: 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<metadata>
        <layout title="COM_HELLOWORLD_HELLOWORLD_VIEW_DEFAULT_TITLE">
                <message>COM_HELLOWORLD_HELLOWORLD_VIEW_DEFAULT_DESC</message>
        </layout>
        <fields
                name="request"
                addfieldpath="/administrator/components/com_helloworld/models/fields"
        >
                <fieldset name="request">
                        <field
                                name="id"
                                type="helloworld"
                                label="COM_HELLOWORLD_HELLOWORLD_FIELD_GREETING_LABEL"
                                description="COM_HELLOWORLD_HELLOWORLD_FIELD_GREETING_DESC"
                        />
                </fieldset>
        </fields>
</metadata>

I assume that you can change the field to a radio box. You may see joomla available field types in: http://docs.joomla.org/Standard_form_field_types (you don't need to create your onw field type - use radio)

I would use the radio option: http://docs.joomla.org/Radio_form_field_type

I suppose (without testing it) I would go like that:

<field name="pagetoshow" type="radio" default="0" label="Select an option" description="">
  <option value="0">Page this</option>
  <option value="1">Page that</option>
</field>

In the end you can use

$jinput = JFactory::getApplication()->input;
$pagetoshow = $jinput->get('pagetoshow', 1, 'INT' );

in your view.html.php and with an if statement show the appropriate page.

Upvotes: 1

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