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Would it or ever be possible to access Modules from the Frontend?

I understand this would be hard with certain modules but Custom HTML modules are normally just text.

It is very frustrating if a module with just text cannot be altered on the frontend. I find it quite bizare that this has not been made possible.

I can't see any reason why you could not change the module php file so that if there is a logged in user an edit link is displayed, which for example goes to index.php?edit_module=true

And then have a conditional statement in the module, that if true is in the url, and the user is logged in, display a textarea with the html, instead of the text, and a submit button going to index.php?save_module=true.

Then the module can detect if save is true, and write to the database.

Of course this is making a module more like a component, and will probably end up more of a hack solution than an elegant one... with different modules on different pages and the complications that come with it.

Thank you for your reply.

So if I did modify the php files to do this and it does work. Does this mean that everytime I upgrade Joomla to the latest edition I would have to redo this work to enable it to still continue to work this way.

This would be easily possible only for "content" modules. With a bit more effort any module's settings could be managed from the frontend.

Ideally though this would be a component...there are a couple ways to go about it...But the simples would be a component that had a drop down for which module to edit. Then just put the content/settings in the frontend....Edit, Save, Done.

Due to size issues with where components are rendered doing it through the module itself is going to be less than desirable.

Thing is anyone withe the capability to do this doesnt mind doing it from the admin....So may be a while before someone would just make this.

Rob

Yes, If I do a custom module I make it myself and copy what code I need. This way if the module has a unique name, it will not be touched by a Joomla upgrade.

I couldn't agree more with what Roba121 said, this is really a component function, and giving limited backend rights to a user is usually not a problem.