Learning Joomla! 3 Extension Development - Third Edition

Creating a featured portfolio module

Wouldn't it be nice if we could mark some of our folio items as featured, kind of like what you do with articles, and then display these featured items in a module on our website?

Before we create this module, we will need to make some enhancements to com_folio to allow folio items to be marked as featured. We can copy a lot of this functionality from com_content, but there is no point reinventing the wheel.

The first thing we want to do is to add the featured field to our database table jos_folio. Edit /administrator/components/com_folio/sql/install.mysql.utf8.sql, and add the following:

`featured` tinyint(3) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',

You should also add a SQL update file for this database change, for example, ...