Running Joomla content plugins in your custom components
Here's a little tipbit I added to Fabrik today to allow your custom components to access Joomla's content plugins
[EDIT] The original post is at the bottom now, however I have just found a cleaner way of doing what I originaly posted:
In you view (e.g. components/com_mycomponent/views/myview/view.html.php) Your display() method usually ends with this: parent::display();
This loads the template and echo's it out, however it doesn't run Joomla's content plugins through your template output.
So instead replace that with this:
[EDIT] The original post is at the bottom now, however I have just found a cleaner way of doing what I originaly posted:
$text = JHTML::_('content.prepare', $text );
[/EDIT]In you view (e.g. components/com_mycomponent/views/myview/view.html.php) Your display() method usually ends with this: parent::display();
This loads the template and echo's it out, however it doesn't run Joomla's content plugins through your template output.
So instead replace that with this:
$o = new stdClass();$o->text = $this->loadTemplate();
JPluginHelper::importPlugin('content');
$dispatcher = &
JDispatcher::getInstance();
$results = $dispatcher->trigger('onPrepareContent', array (&$o, array(), 0));
echo $o->text;
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Permalink Reply by Amy Stephen on
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Ah, the infinite joy of using Joomla! :)
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Permalink Reply by pollen8 on -
nice- I've never looked or knew about the JModuleHelper or thought of using JObject rather than stdClass()
Personally for forward compatibility I'd replace the global $mainframe with :
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Permalink Reply by James Friesen on -
Dang it!... I was doing this the other day and wasted much time getting it to work properly... and the code was sitting here all along. Thanks for sharing! This is a pretty common thing I need in my components.
And Nicholas... I appreciate your post as well.... ha ha "the infinite joy". It's like I tell my clients when they ask "can you do X in Joomla"... you can do ANYTHING...given time and money. :D
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Permalink Reply by pollen8 on
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just to say that I have edited this post with a much shorter way of achieving the same out put
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Permalink Reply by Azrul on -
I noticed that some plugin actually expect option=com_content for them to process onPrepareContent properly, so you might actually want to "fool" them by callin JRequet::setVar and restoring the correct values after the trigger.
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