mod_HelloWorld tutorial - pat template error

[synavia]

Hi
I followed the mod_HelloWorld tutorial, but cannot run the module at all:

Firstly, in mod_HelloWorld.php I had to change the patFactory::CreateTemplate reference operator from &amp to its literal value & (this may just be my PHP config on my PC).

Second, more seriously, my main page won't load with the mod_HelloWorld installed (any version ie. 1 to 3).
I get  a message as the module loads on the left hand side of the page

"pat-Error Could not load templates from bullets.html."

Is this a side effect of the newest version of Joomla! (1.? Or....
Thanks guys

Justin

[Noth]

I am having the exact same problem.  Yes I thought changing the & to just & would fix it but then I ran into the error

pat-Error Could not load templates from default.html.

The title displays fine, so technically the hello world module does what its meant to  , but I cannot get any further.  Another post mentioned the same issue, but no solution.

[happyt]

This was because the module is looking for the default.html from within a folder beneath the modules directory. If you create a directory called mod_helloworld in the modules directory and then put the default.html file into it, the module should work correctly and display the time.

I assume that this should be done by defining the default.html file within the xml file, so that the directory creation is done automatically on install, but I don't know the system well enough yet.

[Oak]

This was because the module is looking for the default.html from within a folder beneath the modules directory. If you create a directory called mod_helloworld in the modules directory and then put the default.html file into it, the module should work correctly and display the time.

I have the same problem: pat-Error Could not load templates from pubsubsdb.html, where "pubsubsdb.html" is a file located within the folder com_pubsubs.

It is a sad fact, that NOT a single tutorial published on Joomla was working for me. Last component I built sometimes in July and it took me circa 3 weeks and I had to read few hundreds of posts in phorum to finish it. And I found out, that many people do things in Joomla components very differently, ofthen guessing or saying "have no idea why, but this worked for me...".
Perphaps the creators of Joomla component system themselfs should clearly state how their system should be treated and do  as simple tutorial or re-evaluate and edit an existing one...

[Oak]

How easy it is with proper information...
if you have this line in your admin.your_component.html.php:

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$tmpl->setRoot( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/tmpl' );

than you have to place your admin.your_component.html.php file into sub-directory tmpl. That's it.

[krneki13]

This module that I created with info from various sites and testing works for me!

[elkuku]

Hello and welcome to the forum
You have just posted in a really old thread.. nobody knows which J! version they were talking about.. But anyway - great that your module works.
If you experience any problems when developing Joomla! extensions you may try EasyCreator which speeds up things a lot..

Happy coding,
Nikolai