Learning Joomla! 3 Extension Development - Third Edition

Creating a form

Now we need to create the JForm that Joomla! will use to load this data. This is just an XML file that defines the fields we are going to use on our form.

The form XML file

Create the folder forms in your model folder, then create the file /administrator/components/com_folio/models/forms/folio.xml. Don't forget to include an index.html file in this new folder.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <form> <fieldset> <field name="id" type="text" default="0" label="JGLOBAL_FIELD_ID_LABEL" readonly="true" class="readonly" description="JGLOBAL_FIELD_ID_DESC"/> <field name="title" type="text" class="inputbox" size="40" label="JGLOBAL_TITLE" description="COM_FOLIO_FIELD_TITLE_DESC" required="true" /> <field name="alias" type="text" class="inputbox" ...