\ContentController

Component Controller

Synopsis

class ContentController extends JControllerLegacy {

• // members
• protected  $default_view;
• // Inherited members from JControllerLegacy
• protected  $basePath;
• protected  $default_view;
• protected  $doTask;
• protected  $message;
• protected  $messageType;
• protected  $methods;
• protected  $name;
• protected  $model_prefix;
• protected  $paths;
• protected  $redirect;
• protected  $task;
• protected  $taskMap;
• protected JInput  $input;
• protected JControllerLegacy  $instance;
• // Inherited members from JObject
• protected  $_errors;
• // methods
• public JController display()
• // Inherited methods from JControllerLegacy
• public static void addModelPath()
• protected static string createFileName()
• public static JControllerLegacy getInstance()
• public void __construct()
• protected JControllerLegacy addPath()
• public JControllerLegacy addViewPath()
• public boolean authorise()
• protected boolean checkEditId()
• protected mixed createModel()
• protected mixed createView()
• public JControllerLegacy display()
• public mixed execute()
• public  getModel()
• public string getName()
• public string getTask()
• public array getTasks()
• public JViewLegacy getView()
• protected void holdEditId()
• public boolean redirect()
• public JControllerLegacy registerDefaultTask()
• public JControllerLegacy registerTask()
• public JControllerLegacy unregisterTask()
• protected void releaseEditId()
• public string setMessage()
• protected void setPath()
• public JControllerLegacy setRedirect()
• // Inherited methods from JObject
• public void __construct()
• public string __toString()
• public mixed def()
• public mixed get()
• public array getProperties()
• public string getError()
• public array getErrors()
• public mixed set()
• public boolean setProperties()
• public void setError()
}


Hierarchy

Extends

• JControllerLegacy

Members

protected

• $_errors — array
  An array of error messages or Exception objects.
• $basePath — string
  The base path of the controller
• $default_view — string
• $default_view — string
  The default view for the display method.
• $doTask — string
  The mapped task that was performed.
• $input — JInput
  Hold a JInput object for easier access to the input variables.
• $instance — JControllerLegacy
  Instance container.
• $message — string
  Redirect message.
• $messageType — string
  Redirect message type.
• $methods — array
  Array of class methods
• $model_prefix — string
  The prefix of the models
• $name — array
  The name of the controller
• $paths — array
  The set of search directories for resources (views).
• $redirect — string
  URL for redirection.
• $task — string
  Current or most recently performed task.
• $taskMap — array
  Array of class methods to call for a given task.

Methods

public

• display() — Method to display a view.

Inherited from JControllerLegacy

protected

• addPath() — Adds to the search path for templates and resources.
• checkEditId() — Method to check whether an ID is in the edit list.
• createFileName() — Create the filename for a resource.
• createModel() — Method to load and return a model object.
• createView() — Method to load and return a view object. This method first looks in the current template directory for a match and, failing that, uses a default set path to load the view class file.
• holdEditId() — Method to add a record ID to the edit list.
• releaseEditId() — Method to check whether an ID is in the edit list.
• setPath() — Sets an entire array of search paths for resources.

public

• addModelPath() — Adds to the stack of model paths in LIFO order.
• addViewPath() — Add one or more view paths to the controller's stack, in LIFO order.
• authorise() — Authorisation check
• display() — Typical view method for MVC based architecture
• execute() — Execute a task by triggering a method in the derived class.
• getInstance() — Method to get a singleton controller instance.
• getModel() — Method to get a model object, loading it if required.
• getName() — Method to get the controller name
• getTask() — Get the last task that is being performed or was most recently performed.
• getTasks() — Gets the available tasks in the controller.
• getView() — Method to get a reference to the current view and load it if necessary.
• redirect() — Redirects the browser or returns false if no redirect is set.
• registerDefaultTask() — Register the default task to perform if a mapping is not found.
• registerTask() — Register (map) a task to a method in the class.
• setMessage() — Sets the internal message that is passed with a redirect
• setRedirect() — Set a URL for browser redirection.
• unregisterTask() — Unregister (unmap) a task in the class.

Inherited from JObject

public

• __toString() — Magic method to convert the object to a string gracefully.
• def() — Sets a default value if not alreay assigned
• get() — Returns a property of the object or the default value if the property is not set.
• getError() — Get the most recent error message.
• getErrors() — Return all errors, if any.
• getProperties() — Returns an associative array of object properties.
• set() — Modifies a property of the object, creating it if it does not already exist.
• setError() — Add an error message.
• setProperties() — Set the object properties based on a named array/hash.