Learning Joomla! 3 Extension Development - Third Edition

Adding columns to your view

In our default list view that shows all our portfolio items in the backend, we currently only have a checkbox and the Title column, so we need to add a few more columns in here. We will concentrate on the company and id columns initially, and then add status and ordering columns which are a bit more complex.

Adding simple columns

The first thing we need to do is adjust our model so that it selects the data from the database table jos_folio that we want to display in this view. Edit the file /administrator/components/com_folio/models/folios.php, and add the highlighted code:

<?php defined('_JEXEC') or die; class FolioModelFolios extends JModelList { public function __construct($config = array()) { if (empty($config['filter_fields'])) ...