Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Organizing Joomla Articles and Main Menu (For PHP developer)

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Organizing Joomla Articles and Main Menu (For PHP developer)

STEPS

1) Create Article Category.

1.1) In Admin Page, go to menu Content/Category Manager/Add New Category.
1.2) Create “CatGetMethod” category.
1.3) Repeat Step 1.1 and 1.2 to create “CatPostMethod” category.

2) Create Article.

2.1) Go to menu Content/Article Manager/Add New Article.
2.2) Type PHP codes…
ArtGetSumVariables
<?php
//assume user input 1,2
$var1=$_GET["input1"];
$var2=$_GET["input2"];
echo $var1+$var2;
?>
2.3) Repeat for ArtPostSumVariables
ArtPostSumVariables
<form method="POST" action="" >
        input1: <input type="text" name="input1"><br/>
        input2: <input type="text" name="input2"><br/>
        <input type="submit" name="submit">
</form>
<?php
//get value from POST input
$var1=$_POST["input1"];
$var2=$_POST["input2"];
echo $var1+$var2;
?>

3) Create Menu Item.

3.1) Go to menu Menus/Main Menu/Add New Menu Item.
3.2) Add Menu Item Type as “Category List”.
Choose “CatGetMethod”.
3.3) Repeat Step 3.2 to create “CatPostMethod”.

4) Browse http://localhost/joomla31

4.1) Click the CatGetMethod menu link.
4.2) Click the Article “ArtGetSumVariable”.
You may get notice message.
Append “?input1=1&input2=2” to the URL texts.
4.3) Try open the ArtPostMethod.
You may get Notice message.
4.4) Type the values 1 and 2 and click Submit.
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