Questions tagged [plugin]
A plugin is a kind of Joomla! extension. Plugins provide functions which are associated with trigger events.
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What is "strict mode" in Joomla 4 reCAPTCHA v3 plugin settings?
This:
I can't find any info about it whatsoever:
It has no description.
0 references about it in found Joomla documentation.
There's nothing like that related to reCAPTCHA either.
What does it do?
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Joomla 4.x - Can't delete users from my custom console plugin
I am developing a console plugin because I need some tasks to run in cron job.
All the tasks in the plugin work fine, but one is fails with the error “Session is not active”.
These are the lines of ...
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Joomla 4.x List Form Field: handle onchange event on plugin settings
In my plugin settings page I need to handle the onchange event on a List Form Field to get the selected value and use it to load an image in the page.
The best way I see is creating a Custom Form ...
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Joomla 5.x Loading language constants from another plugin: what's wrong?
I am developing an extension that consists of two plugins.
In plugin two I need to use the constants defined in the language files of plugin one.
The plugins are named the same, but two is a content ...
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Joomla 4.x Using File form field in my user plugin... how?
I am trying the File custom field in my user plugin.
https://manual.joomla.org/docs/general-concepts/forms-fields/standard-fields/file/
It is correctly rendered in the form, makes me select the file, ...
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Joomla 4.x It is possible to access variable declared in main plugin class from a custom field?
In my provider.php I have this:
function (Container $container) {
$dispatcher = $container->get(DispatcherInterface::class);
$config = (array) PluginHelper::...
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Joomla 4.x - How to render a Textarea Form Field in a Custom Field?
I am developing a plugin and I need a Custom Field that consists of my personal HTML and a textarea.
I know that I could add the textarea by writing the HTML, but I wanted to know if there was an ...
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Joomla 5 - Custom User Profile Plugin with SQL Field: How to display value_field on Profile Page
I needed a set of custom user fields that writes into a custom table. I copied the default User-Profile plugin in Joomla v5.1.2 and made the necessary code changes to create my custom plugin profile6. ...
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JRoute not working in my plugin from the backend
I have a weird and strange bug. When I try to use JRoute to prettify my url from Virtuemart it doesn't do anything. Does anyone know how I can fix it?
I read somewhere about using the frontend of the ...
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add dropdown menu in a plugin
I developed a plugin that displays several records from DB for the user. It is working fine, but now I'm trying to implement check-boxes and Actions menu like Joomla 4 has on the Users-Manage screen. ...
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Right way to develop an authentication plugin in Joomla 4 / 5
I'm very new at this and it's my first attempt developing a plugin for Joomla. I'm currently using J5, and I'm trying to develop a custom authentication plugin. At the end of the code I'm using:
$...
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Show code viewer in my article
I'm a programmer. I want to show my codes and scripts inside a joomla (4) article, something like below:
This image has taken from this site. As it can be seen, line numbers are supported which is ...
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DB Query with JOIN in Task Plugin
I'm calling the following query to retrieve records and the primary table data elements are all included, but the JOIN elements of data are not included. Any suggestions what I'm missing?
private ...
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How to set and use a global variable within a content plugin?
It's probably a duplicate.
Anyhow, I am writing a J5 content plugin using onContentPrepare event.
It turns out, that this plugin is called several times before the page is sent to the browser.
I want ...
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Joomla Custom Field Type Plugin No Translateable Label
In my Project I create a Custom Field Type Plugin (my own Customfield Type) - I'm using the new Structure with namespaces but on the "Field Selection" There is no translateable label. Its ...
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How to integrate Nicepage site on Joomla
I am kinda new to this whole website thing. Definatly dont have much experiance in coding ect, but I have created a whole website with a nicepage paid subscription. I downloaded Joomla and XAMPP. I ...
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Is it possible to point Joomla to use a plugin hosted on a different server?
Simply put, I'm using a plugin that I'd like to host on a different server from the one my site is on. I'd like to point joomla to the plugin content stored on that other server, not in the plugin ...
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onContentAfterSave doesn't show custom fields
I created a plugin to send published articles data to external service
class plgSystemVacancypub extends JPlugin
{
public function onContentAfterSave($context, $article, $isNew)
{
// Get ...
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how can i override method save plugin joomla 4
I have custom plugin and I want to do something when my plugin save in admin panel of Joomla 4 . How can I override save method in plugin ?
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Trigger event inside custom plugin group
I have a custom plugin in a custom plugin group (maidan):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<extension version="3.1" type="plugin" group="...
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Custom task on Task Scheduler
I am trying to create a custom Joomla 4 task scheduler by creating plugin, which runs the custom task code.
I created the test plugin name plg_abc_def, but I don’t know how to link it with the Task ...
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Overwrite Site Model getListQuery
I have a System Plugin to filter Joomla 4 Category Blog Articles by Custom Fields. The Plugin basically overrides the core content ArticlesModel by loading it in the onAfterRoute Event like this:
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Unloading once loaded plugin in Joomla 4
So when doing this i can import a Plugin and run an event on it:
PluginHelper::importPlugin('mygroup', 'myplugin');
Factory::getApplication()->triggerEvent('onMyEvent', ['some' => 'stuff']);
If ...
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$this->params() is Null in Joomla 4 Plugin
I have a Joomla 4 plugin that uses a ServiceProvider which basically works fine. It's just that I can't access the plugin's configuration parameters.
namespace <Domain>\Plugin\System\Replacer\...
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Documentation for Joomla 4 application object
I would like to find the documentation for the Jooma 4 application object giving subclasses and methods, etc. I have looked hard on the Joomla.org website, but can't find it there. (It seems difficult ...
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Joomla 4 plugin to set template style for article
I would like to create a plugin to load a specified template style for each article on Joomla 4. The basic idea is as follows:
Use a custom field in the article to specify the desired template style ...
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Custom layout for plugin options
I'm looking to display my system plugin options in a custom layout.
So i checked something like options for article blog layout:
But these use a custom layout that renders the options with a form-...
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Get Category id onAfterRoute when using category dropdown
I have written a Joomla 4 plugin (trigger: onAfterRoute) that changes the layout of the article edit based on the category. This works when creating a new article with a pre-selected category, but ...
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Joomla Logman Notify modify email message
A question about the joomla plugin Logman Notify. (https://www.joomlatools.com/extensions/logman/documentation/plugins/notify-plugin)
The Notify plugin can send activity notifications to a selected ...
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Subform default values escaped when installing/discovering plugin first time
I made a small plugin, which uses a repeatable subform param element. It doesn't really matter what the plugin does:
<config>
<fields name="params">
<fieldset name=...
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Changing plugin parameter field value dynamicaly
I have a plugin which needs to change its parameter configuration depending on some conditions upon configuring in backend. The plugin using the SubscriberInterface because it is listening to some ...
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Super slow editing mask because repeatable custom field is in subform and calls API many times
I have some options to configure a plugin of mine. These options contain one subform field, that can be repeated. The purpose of the field is to match names of one type to ones of another type.
The ...
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Accessing system plugin params by custom field
I am working on a system plugin which uses its own custom field. The plugin has an XML looking like this:
<config>
<fields name="params" addfieldprefix="Joomla\Plugin\...
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Can't Access Cookie From Plugin That Was Set in Another Extension
Background: I'm writing a component where you can add items to a cart. When the user isn't logged in, it uses a token to identify them, stored as a cookie. The cookie is stored in a view's controller.
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Register Plugin/Class Joomla
We have a custom login plugin which extends the CMSPlugin.
I am trying to register the Class of the plugin inside a module but the following scenarios occur.
Case 1
JLoader::register('...
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How to bootstrap loading of all libs and plugins from command line?
We have a special situation where we include Joomla from within Yii 2, which worked fine with Joomla 3, but Joomla 4.2 is so far giving us some problems. The latest issue is:
Error: Class "Joomla\...
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Joomla plugin ajax request / class extend
I have created a "custom" authentication plugin and inside of it there is a function (onAjaxMyfunction) that is called from a module through com_ajax.
The call "url" looks like ...
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How to connect custom authentication plugin to openid so I can authenticate it through steam?
I need to create a "login using steam button" for a website using Joomla, from my research I can gather up that using OAuth no longer works for Steam, so I'll have to create a custom ...
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How to check if a file is in root subfolder
This question looks pretty easy (and probably it is), but I am stuck with the following scenario:
I'm using XAMPP and have several Joomla installations in subfolders such as \joomla3, \joomla4, etc.
I ...
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Joomla 4 Plugin to overwrite value of a custom field
I need a Joomla 4 Plugin to overwrite a marker in Custom Fields of type text or textarea with the article's title.
I added a onPrepareContent() method where I have access to the articles title as well ...
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modal popup just after login
I am new to the Joomla world and I have to face a difficult problem.
I have to make sure that immediately after logging in to the user, a modal popup with a select box is proposed.
The content of the ...
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How to use emoji picker plugin from editor in Joomla in a textarea field?
I need to use the emoji picker plugin from editor to add emojis in a textarea field. Is it possible?
It's for my chat component: https://extensions.joomla.org/extension/communication/chat/tabapapo/
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Show configuration forms of different plugins into a single tab
I wrote several plugins and for each one exists a relative configuration form loaded by the onContentPrepareForm event using the $form->loadFile() method
Now each time I use this technique, Joomla ...
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Joomla field logic control plug-in
Is there a plugin in joomla that controls the display or hiding of another field based on the specified field similar to the XML showon attribute, or similar to the conditional logic in the WordPress ...
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Unit tests for Joomla 3 plugin
I have written some moderately complicated software for my Joomla site and want to improve on my code base in coming releases.
To this end I am writing some unit tests however it's hard to run the ...
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Scheduled task only running when logged in0
I built a Joomla plugin for a task and I scheduled that task to run every 5 minutes. While monitoring the task it seems it is only running when I am logged into the administrator back end if the site....
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Is it possible to remove the "new article" button from all sections in a Joomla website?
A mate and I are doing an internship at university, and the project we are working on is a small Joomla 4.1 website. Our supervisors asked us to override the mechanics of content insertion so that an ...
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Override a method of the Indexer class (com_finder) using a plugin
I'm trying to override a Joomla method (toggleTables in the Indexer class of the com_finder) using a plugin, but it doesn't work. Where am I going wrong?
use Joomla\CMS\Plugin\CMSPlugin;
use Joomla\...
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Scheduled Tasks Infrastructure in Joomla 4.1
Is there documentation for the new Scheduled Tasks Infrastructure in Joomla 4.1 (https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/35143)?
I just created a test task for setting the site offline. I scheduled ...
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com_ajax to plugin / or plugin field
I have this customfield plugin where the user can select a folder in a popup, the call should be ajax based. The form-"field" including AJAX call etc. works already in some of my modules ...
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