Multiple edit forms for custom joomla component

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Following the docs on Joomla for creating a custom component, and searching through the forums, I've created several admin views with menu links, etc and all work fine. The break comes when I try to edit an item in any view. The edit page is always the default HelloWorld messages form. Just for S&G I did a find and replace on all helloworld. Nothing broke and the forms still redirected to the default messages form. This leads me to believe I need to include an &task= or something to the form tag so that it knows where to redirect. Am I on the right track or am I so derailed that the caboose is leading?

Cheers!

P.S. I noticed that when I choose an element to edit in views/elements.php it does have an &task=element.edit associated with it now, but still seems to be calling the default HelloWorld.messages

Sorry for poor indentation. It didn't copy over well

admin/views/elements/tmpl/default.php


 * @copyright   Copyright (C) 2005 - 2015 Open Source Matters, Inc. All rights reserved.
 * @license     GNU General Public License version 2 or later; see LICENSE.txt
 * @version         v1.0.5
 */

// No direct access to this file
defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted Access');
?>
 
  items)) : ?>
            items as $i => $row) :
                $link = JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_chimera&task=element.edit&id=' . $row->id);
            ?>
                
    
    
        
        
            
        
        
            
        
        
            
        
        
            
        
        
            
        
        
            
        
    
    
    
        
                    pagination->getRowOffset($i); ?>
                    
                        id); ?>
                    
                    
                        
                            element; ?>
                        
                    
                    
                            element_group; ?>
                    
                     ';
            foreach($row->attributes as $attribute){
              $href = JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_chimera&view=attributes#'.$attribute["name"]);
              $attributes .= ''.$attribute["name"];
              if($attribute["global"] == "1"){
                $attributes .= '';
              }
              $attributes .= '';
            }
            $attributes .= '';
            echo $attributes;?>
                    
                    
                        published, $i, 'elements.', true, 'cb'); ?>
                    
                    
                        id; ?>
                    
                
            
        
    
    
        
            
                pagination->getListFooter(); ?>

admin/views/element/tmpl/edit.php



    
         'details')); ?>

        
        
            
          
                form->renderFieldset('details');
                ?>
        
                
                form->renderFieldset('params'); ?>
                
            
            
                
            
        
        

        
        
            
                form->renderFieldset('accesscontrol'); ?>

admin/models/element.php



    
         'details')); ?>

        
        
            
          
                form->renderFieldset('details');
                ?>
        
                
                form->renderFieldset('params'); ?>
                
            
            
                
            
        
        

        
        
            
                form->renderFieldset('accesscontrol'); ?>

admin/tables/element.php

loadArray($array['params']);
            $array['params'] = (string)$parameter;
        }

        // Bind the rules.
        if (isset($array['rules']) && is_array($array['rules']))
        {
            $rules = new JAccessRules($array['rules']);
            $this->setRules($rules);
        }

        return parent::bind($array, $ignore);
    }

    /**
     * Overloaded load function
     *
     * @param       int $pk primary key
     * @param       boolean $reset reset data
     * @return      boolean
     * @see JTable:load
     */
    public function load($pk = null, $reset = true)
    {
        if (parent::load($pk, $reset))
        {
            // Convert the params field to a registry.
            $params = new JRegistry;
            $params->loadString($this->params, 'JSON');

            $this->params = $params;
            return true;
        }
        else
        {
            return false;
        }
    }
    /**
     * Method to compute the default name of the asset.
     * The default name is in the form `table_name.id`
     * where id is the value of the primary key of the table.
     *
     * @return  string
     * @since   2.5
     */
    protected function _getAssetName()
    {
        $k = $this->_tbl_key;
        return 'com_chimera.element.'.(int) $this->$k;
    }
    /**
     * Method to return the title to use for the asset table.
     *
     * @return  string
     * @since   2.5
     */
    protected function _getAssetTitle()
    {
        return $this->element;
    }
    /**
     * Method to get the asset-parent-id of the item
     *
     * @return  int
     */
    protected function _getAssetParentId(JTable $table = NULL, $id = NULL)
    {
        // We will retrieve the parent-asset from the Asset-table
        $assetParent = JTable::getInstance('Asset');
        // Default: if no asset-parent can be found we take the global asset
        $assetParentId = $assetParent->getRootId();

        // Find the parent-asset
        if (($this->catid)&& !empty($this->catid))
        {
            // The item has a category as asset-parent
            $assetParent->loadByName('com_chimera.category.' . (int) $this->catid);
        }
        else
        {
            // The item has the component as asset-parent
            $assetParent->loadByName('com_chimera');
        }

        // Return the found asset-parent-id
        if ($assetParent->id)
        {
            $assetParentId=$assetParent->id;
        }
        return $assetParentId;
    }
}

Chimera.Zen · Accepted Answer

After much searching, I found this thread JForm::getInstance could not load file that answered my problem.

Long story short: A broken XML file.

Multiple edit forms for custom joomla component

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