JView/getName

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Description[edit]

Method to get the view name

Syntax[edit]

getName()

Returns[edit]

string The name of the model

Defined in[edit]

libraries/joomla/application/component/view.php

Importing[edit]

jimport( 'joomla.application.component.view' );

Source Body[edit]

function getName()
{
        $name = $this->_name;

        if (empty($name))
        {
                $r = null;
                if (!preg_match('/View((view)*(.*(view)?.*))$/i', get_class($this), $r)) {
                        JError::raiseError (500, "JView::getName() : Cannot get or parse class name.");
                }
                if (strpos($r[3], "view"))
                {
                        JError::raiseWarning('SOME_ERROR_CODE',"JView::getName() : Your classname contains the substring 'view'. ".
                                                                                "This causes problems when extracting the classname from the name of your objects view. " .
                                                                                "Avoid Object names with the substring 'view'.");
                }
                $name = strtolower($r[3]);
        }

        return $name;
}

Examples[edit]

Code Examples[edit]

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