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001 Hello World with Joomla Component Builder 002 Intro to JCB 003 Installation of JCB 004 General Planning 005 Field Types 006 Basic Fields 007 Admin Views 008 Advanced Fields 009 Adding Admin Views to a Component 010 Component Settings 011 Component Scripts 012 Component FTP and more 013 dynamicGet 014 Adding dynamicGet to a Site View 015 Adding Templates and Layouts to a Site View 016 Template Setup 017 Layout Setup 018 Custom Admin Views 019 Adding Site Views to a Component 020 Adding Custom Admin Views to a Component 021 Tweaking MySQL Demo Data 022 Global Settings of Component Builder 023 Adding a custom time field 024 How to integrate the Create User Helper Method in your Components 025 How to use email helper in your components 026 How to setup a store message method along side the email helper class 027 How to ensure that a field is not escaped when added to list views 028 How to change exported values and setup custom import options 029 How to overwrite the custom fields 030 How to filter a list field based on association with another field 031 Automatic import of custom code during compilation in JCB 032 JCB manual custom code implementation 033 Export Import of fully mapped components 034 How to add Custom Buttons in JCB to your component Admin Area 035 Translation Mananger in JCB explained 036 Setting Site View Permission 037 Auto create SQL updates for Componets in JCB 038 Setup Site Edit View in JCB 039 Automated backup system in JCB 040 Adding Helper Structures to any JCB component 041 Upgrade to JCB v2.5.8 and using the new Admin View and Admin Fields 042 How to setup tabs after upgrade to v2.5.8 in JCB 043 Major Release of JCB v2.6.0 044 Hello World Component with Joomla Component Builder Creator Extended 045 Adding your own rule validation to a field in JCB 046 General overview of how community snippets work 047 Tutorial on forking JCB snippets so you can share your snippets with the rest of the Community 048 Tutorial on making a pull request at Joomla Component Builder Snippets 049 The New Library Manager Area 050 Easy Translation via excel 051 Dynamic Router Implementation Explained 052 Automated database updates in Joomla during development of a component 053 Quick Subform Demonstration 054 VDM Package Import Option 055 Dynamic File and Folder Inclusion concept 056 How to use the file field type to upload a file in JCB 057 Drag and Drop Upload functionality in JCB 058 The Quick Hello Word with JCB 059 Adding none database fields to an admin view 060 The custom dashboard option in JCB 061 Add or Remove Prefix to Component Name in Joomla Menu 062 Add your own JCB packages to the JCB Communty Directory 063 Proposed Collaborative Workflow in JCB 064 How to install jcb packages 065 JAB18 Using Joomla Component Builder 066 The new fields Area to make things easier 067 Adding Language String to your Component and get the Language Placeholder for dynamic use 068 Library Manager Anticipated Functionality 069 Join Fields in the admin list view with field relations 070 How to change the License Template in JCB 071 Reuse Custom Code 072 Setup Local Development Environment with Bitnami 073 JCB Fields Type Extended 074 How to add Joomla Custom Fields 075 Expand Custom Field Type Beyond The Default 076 A Quick Demonstration to Load a List of Items in a Site View 077 Run Expansion Explained 078 How to Add a Form to a Site View 079 Update the Site Form Field via URL Parameter 080 How to Add More Helper Methods to Your Components Helper Class 081 Easy Validation Rules for Fields in JCB 082 New Placeholders Feature 083 Manage a Components Global Config Option Field in Relation With Menu Params 084 Default Database Values can be set per Field Type Beta Testing Component Settings Develop a Joomla Component Guide to use the Component Builder Developing with Joomla Component Builder Home PHP Settings TIPS: Custom Code Using the JCB Demo Component While Building Your Local Development System
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REUSE CUSTOM CODE

How To Use Code Across JCB By Taking Advantages Of A Few Features

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I would like to show you how to use code across JCB in a very inherent kind of way by taking the advantages of a few features that JCB has that most people may not know is there, or maybe they do but they have not seen it as an advantage. Recently there came up a question on the forum By Alex Dings, 00:00:33, he said that he has admin views but generic code that runs in multiple admin views and then some of it runs only in specific admin views. How I could speed up the maintenance of this kind of thing. His first question had been: Is the Helper Admin class the best way to put this code? Is there a way to keep the generic admin forms functions I wrote separately from these specific ones? Some of you might even be listening and do not understand exactly what we are trying to do.

Pull Up A Docker Image Of Joomla

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I am going to pull up a docker image of Joomla. I have a docker file, and quickly going to pull it up. We are going to go and use it. I have it running. Its default is user. I'm going to go to extensions and install. Add the web tab JED 00:01:46 JED Then type jcb and underneath we have a description, you can look at that and install. Getting JCB install from GitHub. We're done. Go Joomla Component Builder, we're almost there. Then 00:02:22 you could grab a demo component. If you don't know how to get access to these components, follow this 'free keys' link and follow the tutorials. I'm going to get the JCB Get Package. The key that you have received, you can add it here. Maybe Force Local Update. It is always good to have all your fields updated. 00:02:52 Continue, within moments we have JCB installed on JCB.

Looking At Examples - GetViewID

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Now we can start looking at the examples. That is really what I wanted to get to because the question is being answered by the demo data already. In JCB there we are already doing a lot of this multi inheritance structure kind of relationship. The best way to demonstrate this is to look at JCB itself. We have JCB and then go to Custom Code, we will see there is a whole lot of custom code. 00:03:40 Many of them is this Hash (automation). We want to look at this JCB( manual) option. For example, let's look at the 'getViewID' which is a custom code, that is its name. This is how you use it. We are having a view 00:04:01 called Admin View that is using it. If you click on that it is going to open it for us the Admin View. When we get here, we will see there is the code. I am using this specific getViewID all across my components. It's also being used in JCB. It's powerful. 00:04:31 That is one way to use a specific snippet which you add by using the JCB manual. Give the function a name. You could pass values to the function(see video). Please read the explanation of how that is done. At the end of the day 00:04:55 you can adapt the value structure, for example, if this value(vdm) needs to be changed from instance to instance, you can pass it by value1, that is arg0. You can replace this vdm with [[[[arg0]]]. You must remember to pass, at least value1 00:05:27 to update the [[[[arg0]]] value wherever you are using it. That is one way to use the reuse of the scripting.

Another Way To Reuse - getFilePath

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The other way is the one that actually gets used in the helper class. I have one called getFilePath. The getFilePath is also a function I am using across my components. It is being included in JCB. Many of my components are using getFilePath and it is a little function I can pass a few parameters to and can consistently give me back a path of where I want to place or have files from. Now in the PHP helper there is a function and in the component itself, there is a function called 00:06:20'Add PHP(Helper classes - Both admin & site)'. Anything that you put in will not be only added to the Admin Helper Class, but also to the Site Helper Class, a way to avoid doing it twice. There is one to put it in the Admin. You could click 'Yes' and target the Admin Helper or you could target the Site Class Helper. In this case I want most of this code to be everywhere. 00:06:52 If we were to go down to the bottom is the getFilePath. It is forming part of a whole bunch of code that I am adding to the Helper Class of this component. I am also using other components. I do not need to redo this code anytime soon. I do not need to come and open the 00:07:20 component when I want to change the code. I can change the code right there in the place that is in the custom area. If we close out and go back to the Custom Code, you can see that the function is being used in Component Builder and in the php_helper_both. It is where it is added. 00:07:45 If you would need to improve the code, you can always at the bottom see in which areas it is being used. So that is the option for multiple reuse of custom scripting. You could put it anywhere you like in JCB, either in the Component Helper Class or in the component view, php areas. By doing so it gets reused. It gets placed into that code on compilation. That is the answer I suppose, to the power of the Custom Code area.

I realize it could be confusing because we are mixing it with the IDE custom code which is 00:08:28 this 'Hash' (automation). It's where you edit your code in the IDE as I did here. The JCB is keeping track of it and it is saying this is for the Admin Views template default body php file. On this starting Hash value, we are doing an insert of this code and you cannot maintain the code here. But it's only for one file, one location, one place. 00:08:57 Then there's the JCB manual and the JCB manual is the implementation, or the mutated implementation of using custom code snippets, this snippet, all across in custom code areas. I'm using the same word custom code for different implementations. That might have been a mistake because you could miss its possible differences. 00:09:25 But there is most certainly a difference, this does not target a file but an area somewhere in that JCB compilation. I hope that helps.