Joomla!™ Programming

Glossary

access modifier In PHP, the words “public,” “protected,” or “private” may be used to control where class methods and fields may be accessed. Public fields and methods can be accessed from anywhere. Protected fields and classes can only be accessed from inside the current class or a parent or child of the current class. Private fields and classes can only be accessed from inside the current class. Note that private methods and fields are not inherited by child classes.

alias In Joomla!, a field for entities such as articles, menu items, and contacts, that are used to create search-engine-friendly URLs. Alias fields can be entered manually or created automatically based on the title of the entered item by removing characters other than ...