Change default published state to unpublished

[imjustmike]

I'm trying to change the default article state for new articles from published to unpublished. I've tracked down the code that generates the radio icons in administrator\components\com_content\admin.content.html.php

The code is

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echo $lists['state'];

What I want to know is where the function is being called from, and how I can change the default from published to unpublished, I checked in the same file, but couldn't find a reference to any radio inputs.

NB: my knowledge of php isn't, well, good.

[lekankou]

Hello !
I had the same problem this afternoon and i was looking for an answer.
I spent a little time to find it but ... none over the net!
Since I've found how to change the default state published to unpublished of a new article, I think it should be helpfull for someone else.

Open the file \components\com_content\views\article\view.html.php
and look for these lines :

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// Radio Buttons: Should the article be published
		$lists['state'] = JHTML::_('select.booleanlist', 'state', '', $article->state);

and change it to:

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// Radio Buttons: Should the article be published
		// lekankou's add for UNpublished by default :
		if($article->id) {
			$query = 'SELECT state FROM #__content WHERE id = '. (int) $article->id;
			$db->setQuery($query);
			$article->state = $db->loadResult();
		} else {
			$article->state = 0;
		}
		// End of lekankou's add 
$lists['state'] = JHTML::_('select.booleanlist', 'state', '', $article->state);

and that's enough !



LeKankou (a french guy)

[tujthevux]

Open the file \components\com_content\views\article\view.html.php
and look for these lines :

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// Radio Buttons: Should the article be published
		$lists['state'] = JHTML::_('select.booleanlist', 'state', '', $article->state);

and change it to:

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// Radio Buttons: Should the article be published
		// lekankou's add for UNpublished by default :
		if($article->id) {
			$query = 'SELECT state FROM #__content WHERE id = '. (int) $article->id;
			$db->setQuery($query);
			$article->state = $db->loadResult();
		} else {
			$article->state = 0;
		}
		// End of lekankou's add 
$lists['state'] = JHTML::_('select.booleanlist', 'state', '', $article->state);

Why I don't find the code in Joomla 2.5.

[lekankou]

Hello I've found this elsewhere and it seems to work :

What you could do is to edit the file article.xml that is located in the directory \administrator\components\com_content\models\forms and change the default value of the default from "1" to "0".
Code:
...
...
<field name="state" type="list" label="JSTATUS"
description="JFIELD_PUBLISHED_DESC" class="inputbox"
filter="intval" size="1" default="1"
>
<option value="1">
JPUBLISHED</option>
<option value="0">
JUNPUBLISHED</option>
<option value="2">
JARCHIVED</option>
<option value="-2">
JTRASHED</option>
</field>
...
...

Be informed that you are changing a core Joomla! file. So, make a copy of the original file. Also, be aware that this file may get overwritten by future releases/versions of Joomla!

May you try this ?

[cwdee]

In Joomla 3.4.0, setting the default published state in administrator/components/com_content/models/forms/article.xml doesn't seem to have any effect for new articles. I can see that article.xml is being processed to display the form because if I change the order of options, or add an extra option, that does take effect. However, the default option is not selected.
If I 'Add new article' in the back-end and look on #_content, a mostly empty row has already been created for the new id, and this already has state set to 1. Where is this blank article being created? Is it possible that that code is not honouring the default state in article.xml?