Component Coding

[Verdo]

Hello all again,

I have successfully built my own custom component from scratch, but I am stuck on a presumably relatively simple problem.

For the purpose of this example lets say that:
A= Home page
B= Player(Multiple) list page
C= Player(Individual) page

I have so far got part A and C working. I can get to my individual player page by entering in their id into the url.


What I am unsure about now is creating a view before this when you click on the players menu button that it directs you to a view which displays a list of all players. I have already created a function within the model which returns all players in the database for the purpose of this view. I can upload my component or paste any of my code into this post if needed.

I did follow http://docs.joomla.org/Developing_a_Mod ... _Component on how to create a component so I presume I have the default settings for my component.

[bewebdev]

Have you used categories? It might be a more flexible solution later on.

Anyway, as far as I know you should just need create a view, then set the model in the view to the one you need using something like

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$mod = JModel::getInstance('Helloworld', 'HelloworldModel', array());
		$this->setModel($mod, true);

Then you can call the function you created in the model and assign it to a variable, something like

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$this->golfers = $this->get('allGolfersFunction');

then in your tmpl/default.php (or whatever) you should be able to loop through $this->golfers and list them all on the page.

If you run into any more trouble it'll probably be a good idea to post your code to see exactly what you are doing.

regards
@bewebdev ^CB

[Verdo]

Cool thanks a mil!