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Introduction

This tutorial is part of the Developing a Model-View-Controller (MVC) Component for Joomla!1.6 tutorial. You are encouraged to read the previous parts of the tutorial before reading this.

Adding some icons

With your favorite file manager put a 16x16 image and a 48x48 image (I choose tux) in a media/images/ folder and add a media tag in your install file. Modify the menu tag in order to use the new icon.

Modifying the views

In the admin/views/helloworlds/view.html.php file put these lines:

admin/views/helloworlds/view.html.php 

<?php
// No direct access to this file
defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access');
// import Joomla view library
jimport('joomla.application.component.view');
/**
 * HelloWorldList View
 */
class HelloWorldViewHelloWorlds extends JView
{
 
        /**
         * HelloWorldList view display method
         * @return void
         */
        function display($tpl = null) 
        {
                // Get data from the model
                $items = $this->get('Items');
                $pagination = $this->get('Pagination');
                // Check for errors.
                if (count($errors = $this->get('Errors'))) 
                {
                        JError::raiseError(500, implode("<br />", $errors));
                        return false;
                }
                // Assign data to the view
                $this->items = $items;
                $this->pagination = $pagination;
                // Set the toolbar
                $this->addToolBar();
                // Display the template
                parent::display($tpl);
                // Set the document
                $this->setDocument();
        }
 
        /**
         * Setting the toolbar
         */
        protected function addToolBar() 
        {
                JToolBarHelper::title(JText::_('COM_HELLOWORLD_MANAGER_HELLOWORLDS'));
                JToolBarHelper::deleteListX('', 'helloworlds.delete');
                JToolBarHelper::editListX('helloworld.edit');
                JToolBarHelper::addNewX('helloworld.add');
        }
 
        /**
         * Method to set up the document properties
         *
         * @return void
         */
        protected function setDocument() 
        {
                $document = JFactory::getDocument();
                $document->setTitle(JText::_('COM_HELLOWORLD_ADMINISTRATION'));
        }
}

This view uses a second parameter for the JToolBarHelper::title function. It will be used to construct the css class for the title. The _setDocument method set the browser title.

In admin/views/helloworld/view.html.php, put these lines: admin/views/helloworld/view.html.php 

<?php
// No direct access to this file
defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access');
// import Joomla view library
jimport('joomla.application.component.view');
/**
 * HelloWorld View
 */
class HelloWorldViewHelloWorld extends JView
{
        /**
         * View form
         *
         * @var         form
         */
        protected $form = null;
        /**
         * display method of Hello view
         * @return void
         */
        public function display($tpl = null) 
        {
                // get the Form
                $form = & $this->get('Form');
                // get the Data
                $data = & $this->get('Data');
                // Bind the Data
                $form->bind($data);
                // Assign the form
                $this->form = $form;
                // Set the toolbar
                $this->setToolBar();
                // Display the template
                parent::display($tpl);
                // Set the document
                $this->setDocument();
        }
        /**
         * Setting the toolbar
         */
        protected function setToolBar() 
        {
                JRequest::setVar('hidemainmenu', 1);
                $isNew = ($this->form->getValue('id') < 1);
                JToolBarHelper::title(JText::_('com_helloworld_Manager') . ': <small><small>[ ' . ($isNew ? JText::_('JToolBar_New') : JText::_('JToolBar_Edit')) . ' ]</small></small>', 'helloworld');
                JToolBarHelper::save('helloworld.save');
                JToolBarHelper::cancel('helloworld.cancel', $isNew ? 'JToolBar_Cancel' : 'JToolBar_Close');
        }
        /**
         * Method to set up the document properties
         *
         * @return void
         */
        protected function setDocument() 
        {
                $isNew = ($this->form->getValue('id') < 1);
                $document = &JFactory::getDocument();
                $document->setTitle(JText::_('com_helloworld_Administration') . ' - ' . ($isNew ? JText::_('com_helloworld_HelloWorld_Creating') : JText::_('com_helloworld_HelloWorld_Editing')));
        }
}

This view also uses the second parameter of the JToolBarHelper::title function and set the browser title

Modifying the main entry file

In the admin/helloworld.php file, put these lines in order to use the 48x48 icon: 

<?php
// No direct access to this file
defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access');
// Set some global property
$document = JFactory::getDocument();
$document->addStyleDeclaration('.icon-48-helloworld {background-image: url(../media/com_helloworld/images/tux-48x48.png);}');
// import joomla controller library
jimport('joomla.application.component.controller');
// Get an instance of the controller prefixed by HelloWorld
$controller = JController::getInstance('HelloWorld');
// Perform the Request task
$controller->execute(JRequest::getCmd('task'));
// Redirect if set by the controller
$controller->redirect();

Adding some strings in the language file

Modify the admin/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_helloworld.ini and put these lines

admin/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_helloworld.ini 

# Joomla16.Tutorials
# Copyright (C) 2005 - 2009 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved.
# License GNU General Public License version 2 or later; see LICENSE.txt, see LICENSE.php
# Note : All ini files need to be saved as UTF-8 - No BOM
 
COM_HELLOWORLD_ADMINISTRATION=HelloWorld administration
COM_HELLOWORLD_HELLOWORLD_CREATING=Creating
COM_HELLOWORLD_HELLOWORLD_DETAILS=Details
COM_HELLOWORLD_HELLOWORLD_EDIT_CANCELLED=Edit Cancelled
COM_HELLOWORLD_HELLOWORLD_EDITING=Editing
COM_HELLOWORLD_HELLOWORLD_ERROR_SAVING_GREETING=Error saving greeting: %s
COM_HELLOWORLD_HELLOWORLD_GREETING_DESC=Message to be displayed
COM_HELLOWORLD_HELLOWORLD_GREETING=Greeting
COM_HELLOWORLD_HELLOWORLD_GREETING_SAVED=Greeting saved
COM_HELLOWORLD_HELLOWORLDLIST_ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WANT_TO_DELETE_THESE_GREETINGS=Are you sure you want to delete these greetings?
COM_HELLOWORLD_HELLOWORLDLIST_GREETING=Greeting
COM_HELLOWORLD_HELLOWORLDLIST_GREETINGS_REMOVED=Greetings removed
COM_HELLOWORLD_HELLOWORLDLIST_ID=Id
COM_HELLOWORLD_HELLOWORLDLIST_ONE_OR_MORE_GREETINGS_COULD_NOT_BE_DELETED=One or more greetings could not be deleted: %s
COM_HELLOWORLD_HELLOWORLD_VIEW_DEFAULT_MSG_DESC=This message will be displayed
COM_HELLOWORLD_HELLOWORLD_VIEW_DEFAULT_MSG_LABEL=Message
COM_HELLOWORLD_MANAGER=HelloWorld manager

Packaging the component

Content of your code directory

Create a compressed file of this directory or directly download the archive and install it using the extension manager of Joomla!1.6. You can add a menu item of this component using the menu manager in the backend.

helloworld.xml 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<extension type="component" version="1.6.0" method="upgrade">
        <name>Hello World!</name>
        <creationDate>November 2009</creationDate>
        <author>John Doe</author>
        <authorEmail>john.doe@example.org</authorEmail>
        <authorUrl>http://www.example.org</authorUrl>
        <copyright>Copyright Info</copyright>
        <license>License Info</license>
        <version>0.0.10</version>
        <description>com_helloworld_Description</description>
 
        <install> <!-- Runs on install -->
                <sql>
                        <file driver="mysql" charset="utf8">sql/install.mysql.utf8.sql</file>
                </sql>
        </install>
        <uninstall> <!-- Runs on uninstall -->
                <sql>
                        <file driver="mysql" charset="utf8">sql/uninstall.mysql.utf8.sql</file>
                </sql>
        </uninstall>
        <update> <!-- Runs on update -->
                <sql>
                        <file driver="mysql" charset="utf8">sql/update.mysql.utf8.sql</file>
                </sql>
        </update>
 
        <files folder="site">
                <filename>index.html</filename>
                <filename>helloworld.php</filename>
                <filename>controller.php</filename>
                <folder>views</folder>
                <folder>models</folder>
                <folder>language</folder>
        </files>
 
        <media destination="com_helloworld" folder="media">
                <filename>index.html</filename>
                <folder>images</folder>
        </media>
 
        <administration>
                <menu img="../media/com_helloworld/images/tux-16x16.png">Hello World!</menu>
                <files folder="admin">
                        <filename>index.html</filename>
                        <filename>helloworld.php</filename>
                        <filename>controller.php</filename>
                        <folder>sql</folder>
                        <folder>tables</folder>
                        <folder>models</folder>
                        <folder>views</folder>
                        <folder>controllers</folder>
                </files>                
                <languages folder="admin">
                        <language tag="en-GB">language/en-GB/en-GB.com_helloworld.ini</language>
                        <language tag="en-GB">language/en-GB/en-GB.com_helloworld.menu.ini</language>
                </languages>
        </administration>
</extension>

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