Peter Martin, www.db8.nl. twitter: @pe7erJoomladay.de – 12+13 september 2014
Developing a Joomla Component using RAD/FOF
Part 1: Back-end
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Presentation Overview
>>> Sheets available: www.db8.nl <<<
a)Introduction
b)Rapid Application Development (RAD) / FOF
c)Developing a Joomla back-end component: db8locate
(Part 2:Developing a Joomla front-end component: db8locateDemo with programming, github & local web environment)
>>> Component: https://github.com/pe7er/db8locate <<<
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a) Introduction● Your own webapplication: programming everything from
scratch● PHP/MySQL/HTML/CSS/JavaScript
● Joomla component: Joomla = Framework● Data to/from database – Database object● Layout – Template● Rights Management – Access Control List (ACL)● MVC → template overrides● Plugins – hook into events in own component
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a) Functionality component back-end● Category list
● Display list of categories● New / Edit a category● Delete categories● Publish/unpublish categories
● Categorie form
● Display form of a category● Save a category
● List of items
● Display list of items● New / Edit an item● Delete item(s)● Publish/unpublish item(s)
● Item form
● Display form of an item● Save an item
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a) Functionality component front-end● Display list of categories
● Display a single category
● Display list of items
● Display single item
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b) Rapid Application Development (RAD)
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● Abstracting common code functionality● Conventions● Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY)
● Nooku Framework ('Koowa') – Johan Janssens● Joomlatools extensies (DOCman), Anahita
● Framework on Framework – Nicholas Dionysopoulos● Basis of Akeeba Backup, Admin Tools etc
b) Software Development Framework
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Rapid Application Development (RAD)● RAD = Framework on Framework (since Joomla 3.2)
● Extension of Joomla! Platform, Not stand-aloneJoomla's MVC classes & similar to Joomla's MVC API
● Backwards compatibile● Less code → faster development & less bugs● Convention over configuration -> FOF convention
regarding naming of functions and database field names-> automatic (“automagic”) functionality
● Bootstrap, jQuery, JSON● Hierarchical MVC (HMCV) – display component views at
other places (other views, componenten, modules)
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RAD/ FOF/ F0F ?● FOF (F O F) – Akeeba etc● RAD – FOF implementation in Joomla > version 3.2● F0F (F zero F) – Fork of FOF
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c) Joomla Component with FOF
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c) Joomla Component with FOF● Development Environment
● Local web environment:(LAMP/XAMP/MAMP) + phpMyAdmin
● Joomla 3.3.x installation● Git (software version control) + github.com● IDE for PHP:
– Netbeans / Eclipse / PHPStorm / your ”weapon of choice”
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“db8 locate” componentGoal: Manage & display locations on a Google Map ● Name: “db8 Locate”● Component name: com_db8locate● Database tabel name: #__db8locate_items
>>> Show example of back-end in browser
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1. basic component (back-end)
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1. basic component (back-end)1.Entry point
/administrator/components/com_db8locate/db8locate.php
2.Dispatcher configuration/administrator/components/com_db8locate/fof.xml
3.SQL definition of database table(s)/administrator/components/com_db8locate/sql/install/mysql/install.sql
4.XML installation manifest/administrator/components/com_db8locate/db8locate.xml
5.View: list/administrator/components/com_db8locate/views/items/tmpl/form.default.xml
6.View: form/administrator/components/com_db8locate/views/item/tmpl/form.form.xml
7. Language files/administrator/components/com_db8locate/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_db8locate.sys.ini + en-GB.com_db8locate.ini
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1.1 basic component – entry point/administrator/components/com_db8locate/db8locate.php
<?phpdefined('_JEXEC') or die();
// Load FOFinclude_once JPATH_LIBRARIES.'/fof/include.php';
// Quit if FOF is not installedif(!defined('FOF_INCLUDED')) { JError::raiseError ('500', 'FOF is not installed');}
FOFDispatcher::getTmpInstance('com_db8locate')->dispatch();
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1.2 basic comp. – dispatcher config/administrator/components/com_db8locate/fof.xml
●<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>●<fof>
● <backend>● <dispatcher>
● <option name="default_view">items</option></dispatcher>
● </backend>●</fof>
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1.3 basic component – SQL definition● Create SQL installation file:
/administrator/components/com_db8locate/sql/install/mysql/install.sql
install.sql contains:● CREATE TABLE, table name (plural):
#__db8locate_items● ID field, fieldname (singular)
component-name_singular-view_id:db8locate_item_id (in Joomla: “id”)
● title● PRIMARY KEY (`db8locate_item_id`) = ID field
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1.3 basic component – SQL definition/administrator/components/com_db8locate/sql/install/mysql/install.sql
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `#__db8locate_items` (● `db8locate_item_id` bigint(20) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,● `title` varchar(255) NOT NULL,● PRIMARY KEY (`db8locate_item_id`)●) DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
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1.4 basic component – XML manifest 1/2/administrator/components/com_db8locate/db8locate.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><extension version="3.2" type="component" method="upgrade"> <name>db8 locate</name> <author>Peter Martin</author> <creationDate>12 September 2014</creationDate> <copyright>Copyright (C) 2014 Peter Martin / db8.nl</copyright> <license>GNU General Public License version 2</license> <authorEmail>[email protected]</authorEmail> <version>1.0.1</version> <description>Component to manage and display locations on a Google Map</description>
<!-- SQL query files to execute on installation --> <install>● <sql>● <file driver="mysql" charset="utf8">sql/install/mysql/install.sql</file>● <file driver="mysql">sql/install/mysql/install.sql</file>●
● <file driver="mysqli" charset="utf8">sql/install/mysql/install.sql</file>● <file driver="mysqli">sql/install/mysql/install.sql</file>● </sql>● </install>
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1.4 basic component – XML manifest 2/2/administrator/components/com_db8locate/db8locate.xml
<!-- Administrator back-end section --> <administration> <!-- Administration menu --> <menu view="cpanel">COM_DB8LOCATE</menu>
<!-- Back-end files --> <files folder="backend"> <folder>sql</folder>
<filename>db8locate.php</filename> <filename>fof.xml</filename> </files>
</administration>
</extension>
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1.5 basic component – view list/administrator/components/com_db8locate/views/items/tmpl/form.default.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>●
●<form type="browse"● show_header="1"● show_filters="1"● show_pagination="1"● norows_placeholder="COM_DB8LOCATE_COMMON_NORECORDS">● ● <headerset>● <header name="db8locate_item_id" type="rowselect" tdwidth="20" />● <header name="title" type="fieldsearchable" sortable="true"
buttons="yes" buttonclass="btn" />● </headerset>●
● <fieldset name="items">● <field name="db8locate_item_id" show_id="true" type="selectrow"/>● <field name="title" type="text" show_link="true" url="index.php?option=com_db8locate
&view=item&id=[ITEM:ID]" empty_replacement="(no title)" />● </fieldset>●
●</form>
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1.6 basic component – view form/administrator/components/com_db8locate/views/item/tmpl/form.form.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>●
●<form validate="true" serverside_validate="true">●
● <fieldset name="basic_configuration"● label="COM_DB8LOCATE_LOCATION_ITEM_EDIT"● description="COM_DB8LOCATE_LOCATION_ITEM_EDIT_BASIC_DESC"● class="span4">● ● <field name="title" type="text"● class="inputbox"● label="JGLOBAL_TITLE"● required="true"● Size="50" />
● </fieldset>●</form>
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1. basic component – installation
Via Extensions > Extension Manager > Discover
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1. basic component (back-end)● List view
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1. basic component (back-end)● Form view
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1. basic component (back-end)● List view after couple of new & save
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2. language file
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2. language filesys.ini → For menu items etc.Put in /language/ map of db8locate component!
/administrator/components/com_db8locate/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_db8locate.sys.ini
●
COM_DB8LOCATE="db8 Locate"COM_DB8LOCATE_XML_DESCRIPTION="Component to manage and display locations on a Google Map"
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2. language file.ini → large file for all language lables com_db8locate
/administrator/components/com_db8locate/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_db8locate.ini
TIP: “Debug Language” & collect all “lables to translate”
COM_DB8LOCATE="db8 Locate"COM_DB8LOCATE_TITLE_ITEMS="Location Items"COM_DB8LOCATE_COMMON_NORECORDS="No Location Items"COM_DB8LOCATE_TITLE_ITEMS_EDIT="Edit Location Items"COM_DB8LOCATE_LOCATION_ITEM_EDIT="Location Items"COM_DB8LOCATE_LBL_ITEM_SAVED="Location Item saved"COM_DB8LOCATE_CONFIRM_DELETE="Delete Location Item?"
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2. language file
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3. switch on/off
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3. switch on/off – database fieldNew field “enabled” to store publication status
ALTER TABLE `#__db8locate_items` ADD `enabled` TINYINT( 3 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT '1';
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3. switch on/off – database field/administrator/components/com_db8locate/views/items/tmpl/form.default.xml
Add to <headerset>●
<header name="enabled" type="published" sortable="true" tdwidth="8%" />●
●Add to <fieldset name="items">
● <field name="enabled" type="published"/>●
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3. switch on/off
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3. switch on/off – form/administrator/components/com_db8locate/views/item/tmpl/form.form.xml
Add to <fieldset>●
<field name="enabled" type="list" label="JSTATUS"● labelclass="todo-label"● class="inputbox"● filter="intval" size="1" default="1" >● <option value="1">JPUBLISHED</option>● <option value="0">JUNPUBLISHED</option>●</field>●
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3. switch on/off – form
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4. order
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4. order – database fieldNew database field “ordering”
ALTER TABLE `#__db8locate_items` ADD `ordering` INT( 11 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0';
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4. order – list/administrator/components/com_db8locate/views/items/tmpl/form.default.xml
Add to <headerset>●
<header name="ordering" type="ordering" sortable="true" tdwidth="10%" />
●
●Add to <fieldset name="items">
●
<field name="ordering" type="ordering" labelclass="order"/>●
●
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4. order
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5. categories
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5. categories – database fieldAdd new database field “catid” to store category_id
ALTER TABLE `#__db8locate_items` ADD `catid` INT( 10 ) UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT '0';
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5. categories – list/administrator/components/com_db8locate/views/items/tmpl/form.default.xml
Note: xml has hardcoded SQL for MySQL → should be model instead
Add to <headerset>●
<header name="category" type="category" sortable="true" tdwidth="10%" />
●
●Add to <fieldset name="items">
<field name="catid" type="sql" translate="false"query="SELECT * FROM #__categories" key_field="id" value_field="title" />
●
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5. categories – list
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5. categories – form/administrator/components/com_db8locate/views/item/tmpl/form.form.xml
Add to <fieldset>●
<field name="catid" type="category"
● extension="com_db8locate"● class="inputbox"● label="JCATEGORY"● required="true"● size="1" /> ●
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5. categories – form
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5. categories – toolbar/administrator/components/com_db8locate/toolbar.php
●<?phpdefined('_JEXEC') or die();
class Db8locateToolbar extends FOFToolbar {
public function Db8locateHelperRenderSubmenu($vName) { return $this->renderSubmenu($vName); }
public function renderSubmenu($vName = null) { if (is_null($vName)) { $vName = $this->input->getCmd('view', 'cpanel'); } $this->input->set('view', $vName);
parent::renderSubmenu(); $toolbar = FOFToolbar::getAnInstance($this->input->getCmd('option',
'com_db8locate'), $this->config); $toolbar->appendLink(Jtext::_('COM_DB8LOCATE_SUBMENU_CATEGORIES'),
'index.php?option=com_categories&extension=com_db8locate', $vName == 'categories');}
}
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5. categories – toolbar
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5. categories – toolbar in Category ManagerCreate button in Category Manager to navigate back to “Items”:/administrator/components/com_db8locate/helpers/db8locate.php
●<?php●defined('_JEXEC') or die();●
●/**● * Helper to display db8 locate component submenus in com_categories● */●abstract class Db8locateHelper {●
● public static function addSubmenu($submenu) {JsubMenuHelper::addEntry(JText::_(
'COM_DB8LOCATE_TITLE_ITEMS'), 'index.php?option=com_db8locate', $submenu == 'locations');
JsubMenuHelper::addEntry(JText::_('COM_DB8LOCATE_SUBMENU_CATEGORIES'), 'index.php?option=com_categories&view=categories&extension=com_db8locate', $submenu == 'categories');
● }●}
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5. categories – Category ManagerClick on “Location Categories”, Result:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/rad/libraries/cms/helper/content.php on line 121
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6. access levels
1. Access to application
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6. access levels application 1/2/administrator/components/com_db8locate/access.xml
●<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>●<access component="com_db8locate">● ●<section name="component">
● <action name="core.admin" title="JACTION_ADMIN"description="JACTION_ADMIN_COMPONENT_DESC" />
<action name="core.manage" title="JACTION_MANAGE" description="JACTION_MANAGE_COMPONENT_DESC" />
● <action name="core.create" title="JACTION_CREATE" description="JACTION_CREATE_COMPONENT_DESC" />
● <action name="core.delete" title="JACTION_DELETE" description="JACTION_DELETE_COMPONENT_DESC" />
● <action name="core.edit" title="JACTION_EDIT" description="JACTION_EDIT_COMPONENT_DESC" />
● <action name="core.edit.state" title="JACTION_EDITSTATE" description="JACTION_EDITSTATE_COMPONENT_DESC" />
● </section>
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6. access levels application 2/2/administrator/components/com_db8locate/access.xml
● <section name="category">● <action name="core.manage" title="JACTION_MANAGE"
description="JACTION_MANAGE_COMPONENT_DESC" />● <action name="core.create" title="JACTION_CREATE"
description="COM_CATEGORIES_ACCESS_CREATE_DESC" />● <action name="core.delete" title="JACTION_DELETE"
description="COM_CATEGORIES_ACCESS_DELETE_DESC" />● <action name="core.edit" title="JACTION_EDIT"
description="COM_CATEGORIES_ACCESS_EDIT_DESC" />● <action name="core.edit.state" title="JACTION_EDITSTATE"
description="COM_CATEGORIES_ ACCESS_EDITSTATE_DESC" />
● </section>●
●</access>
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6. access levels
2. (Front-end) access to database items
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6. access levels – list
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7. parameters
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7. parameters/administrator/components/com_db8locate/config.xmlvia Components > db8 locate > categories > [options]
●<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>●<config>●
● <fieldset name="permissions"● label="JCONFIG_PERMISSIONS_LABEL"● description="JCONFIG_PERMISSIONS_DESC" >●
● <field name="rules"● type="rules"● label="JCONFIG_PERMISSIONS_LABEL"● class="inputbox"● filter="rules"● component="com_db8locate"● section="component" />●
● </fieldset>●
●</config>
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8. multilingual
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8. multilingual – database fieldAdd new field “language” to store language code
ALTER TABLE `#__db8locate_items` ADD `language` CHAR( 7 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT '*';
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8. multilingual – list/administrator/components/com_db8locate/views/items/tmpl/form.default.xml
Add to <headerset>●
<header name="language" type="language" sortable="true" tdwidth="10%" />
●
●
●Add to <fieldset name="items">
<field name="language" type="text" tdwidth="10%" />●
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8. multilingual – form/administrator/components/com_db8locate/views/item/tmpl/form.form.xml
Add to <fieldset>●
<field name="language" type="contentlanguage"
label="JFIELD_LANGUAGE_LABEL" >● <option value="*">JALL</option>● </field> ● ●
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8. multilingual – form/administrator/components/com_db8locate/views/item/tmpl/form.form.xml
Add to <fieldset>●
<field name="language" type="contentlanguage"
label="JFIELD_LANGUAGE_LABEL" >● <option value="*">JALL</option>● </field> ● ●
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8. multilingual – list
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9. “magic fields”
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9. “magic fields”● Present in component:
enabled (“state”), ordering,
● Also add to database table: created_by, created_on(“created”), modified_by, modified_on(“modified”), locked_by(“checked_out”), locked_on(“checked_out_time”),hits
● In list view: created_by & created_on● In form view: all fields
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10. tags
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10. tags#__tags tabel stores tags:
id title4 Joomla5 Linux
#__contentitem_tag_map links content items and tags:
type_alias core_content_id content_item_id tag_id type_idcom_content.article 1 1 2 1com_content.article 1 1 3 1com_content.article 3 2 4 1com_content.article 3 2 5 1com_weblinks.weblink 2 1 4 2com_weblinks.weblink 2 1 5 2
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10. tags – form/administrator/components/com_db8locate/views/item/tmpl/form.form.xml
Add to <fieldset>●
<field name="tags" type="tag" label="JTAG" description="JTAG_DESC" class="inputbox span12" multiple="true" >
</field>
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10. tags
Unfortunately ... not working... bug in Joomla to versie 3.2.3: Use of com_tags only possible if JTable is used in component.
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11. my own fields...
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11. db8locate – database fieldAdd your own fields to database
ALTER TABLE `jos_db8locate_items` ●ADD `location` VARCHAR( 60 ) NOT NULL ,●ADD `address` VARCHAR( 50 ) NOT NULL ,●ADD `postcode` VARCHAR( 12 ) NOT NULL ,●ADD `city` VARCHAR( 50 ) NOT NULL ,●ADD `region` VARCHAR( 50 ) NOT NULL ,●ADD `country` VARCHAR( 50 ) NOT NULL ,●ADD `latitude` VARCHAR( 10 ) NOT NULL ,●ADD `longitude` VARCHAR( 10 ) NOT NULL ,●ADD `website` VARCHAR( 100 ) NOT NULL
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11. db8locate – list
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11. db8locate – further improvements● Update your SQL installation script:
/administrator/components/com_db8locate/sql/install/mysql/install.sql
● If "required fields" are not completed, then "save" results in emptying the fields...
/administrator/components/com_db8locate/models/items.php●
class Db8directoryModelItems extends F0Fmodel {● protected $_savestate = 1;● protected function loadFormData() {● Jfactory::getApplication()->● setUserState('com_db8locate.add.item.data', '');●
●
● if (empty($this->_formData)) {● return array();● } else {● return $this->_formData;● }● }●}
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11. db8locate – further improvements● Edit form too long → divide into columns
/administrator/components/com_db8locate/views/item/tmpl/form.form.xml
/administrator/components/com_db8locate/views/item/tmpl/form.form.xml●
<fieldset name="basic_configuration" label="COM_DB8LOCATE_ITEM_LOCATION" class="span4"> fields in column 1 </fieldset>●
●<fieldset name="address" label="COM_DB8LOCATE_ITEM_ADDRESS" class="span4"> fields in column 2 </fieldset>
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11. db8locate – further improvements● Lookup Coordinates of each Address at Google Maps API
● Add lookup code for Google Map API in Model● Add button in Toolbar● Add handling in Controller
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12. front-end
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12. front-end – basic component1.Entry point
/components/com_db8locate/db8locate.php
2.View: list/components/com_db8locate/views/items/tmpl/form.default.xml/components/com_db8locate/views/items/metadata.xml –> for menu
3.View: single item/components/com_db8locate/views/item/tmpl/form.item.xml/components/com_db8locate/views/item/metadata.xml –> for menu
4.Language files/components/com_db8locate/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_db8locate.ini
15:30 to 16:15 hour – Part 2: Front-end
Programming a simple front-end component using FOF
Demo with programming, github & local web environment
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d) tools
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Errors● IMHO Harder to detect than "regular" Joomla component!● Cache!!● Debug
● E.g. back-end error: “An error has occurred. 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'ORDER BY node.lft' at line 4 SQL=SELECT node.id FROM jos_categories AS node, jos_categories AS parent WHERE node.lft BETWEEN parent.lft AND parent.rgt AND parent.id = ORDER BY node.lft”
can be caused by error in the front-end!Test: rename front-end com_db8locate temporary
● Front-end error:Notice: Undefined variable: form_class in /var/www/rad/libraries/fof/render/strapper.php on line 676
Test: rebuilt .xml files step-by-step● print_r($object) / echo $query / die(“stop here!”)
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Sources● Documentation
https://www.akeebabackup.com/documentation/fof.html
● FOF Mailinglist: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/frameworkonframework
● Source code Github: https://github.com/akeeba/fof
● Examples:https://github.com/akeeba/todo-fof-example/ https://github.com/akeeba/contactus Akeeba BackupAkeeba Ticket Systemhttps://github.com/tuum/com_timesheet
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Questions?Presentation available at:http://www.db8.nl
Component db8locate available at:https://github.com/pe7er/db8locate
Peter Martin
e-mail: info at db8.nl
website: www.db8.nl
twitter: @pe7er
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Used photos● Speed Typing - Matthew Bowden http://www.sxc.hu/photo/275499
● Speedometer – Abdulhamid AlFadhly http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1390189
● Earth: Night Edition - Europe - Sigurd Decroos http://www.sxc.hu/photo/140879
● Forjados 1 - Albert Lazcano http://www.sxc.hu/photo/626785
● Bengali Keyborad - Mohammad Jobaed Adnan http://www.sxc.hu/photo/676844
● Old Light Switches - Paul Cross http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1259922
● madera en pila 1 - jean froidevaux http://www.sxc.hu/photo/313864
● Books books books... - Brandon Blinkenberg http://www.sxc.hu/photo/424027
● Sign 3: forbidden access - Davide Guglielmo http://www.sxc.hu/photo/200982
● Communications Receiver - John Munsch http://www.sxc.hu/photo/260775
● Flags of the Baltic Sea countries - Johannes Raitio http://www.sxc.hu/photo/471547
● Lock - Robert Linder http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1395379
● Basho Collage 5 - Billy Alexander http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1330749
● Retro/Vintage TV set - "meltingdog" http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1440150
● san sebastian views 1 - ibon san martin http://www.sxc.hu/photo/94018
● Fragile Parcel - Richard Dudley http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1279274
● Sparks - Hector Landaeta http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1184243
● Tools - J Boontje http://www.sxc.hu/photo/805571
● signs signs - Jason Antony http://www.sxc.hu/photo/751034