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[David Roth]

Thanks, Chris & Donna for your postings. Very helpful!

I got it working as a module.

Now that this is a big requirement for this module, but I was wondering how
do I take the JavaScript and put it in it's own file so that the module can
find it? Thanks!

David Roth


On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Christopher French
<contact at chrisfrench.me>wrote:

> Your probably best to just make your own module.
>
> Make a module in joomla is very easy it is the easiest thing to make.
>
> You could just copy a module xml from another folder or download a hello
> world module.
>
> At the most basic level you could just copy an xml file from any module
> than,
>
> Put in a folder name it mod_david_table.xml open it up and change the info
> to yours
>
> Create an empty file called mod_david_table.php in the same folder and
> just copy all you html and javascript right into that file and just have no
> php. As you learn you can update your module to use templates helpers and
> caching if you want.
>
> That is better than disabling js in your wysiwg editor.
>
> Last sstep is you zip of your two files and install them
>
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Donna Marie Vincent <
> donnamarievincent at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> 1.  You can set your editor to *not* filter out the javascript.
>>
>> 2.  It is very easy to create a simple module and put your code in it.
>> (I have a tutorial for it but it's not updated for 2.5.  The main
>> difference is that you now need to register modules in the database in the
>> #__extensions table.)  There are probably up-to-date tutorials on YouTube
>> for doing this.  Once you see how easy it is, you won't both spending time
>> looking for extensions that fit, you'll just make your own!
>>
>>
>>
>>   ------------------------------
>> *From:* David Roth <davidalanroth at gmail.com>
>> *To:* NYPHP SIG: Joomla <joomla at lists.nyphp.org>
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 31, 2012 6:54 AM
>> *Subject:* [joomla] Converting a HTML/JavaScript page to be a module in
>> Joomla
>>
>> I have a JavaScript program which does some simple calculations. It
>> emulates what you would do in a spreadsheet. It isn't fancy, but it is
>> functional and I want to make a Joomla module out of it. I didn't write a
>> CSS for this because it was intended to be used in Joomla from the start
>> and I want it to inherit the Joomla CSS that's resident.
>>
>> My first thought was, create a custom HTML module, go into HTML editing
>> mode and paste the HTML page with it's JavaScript in there.
>>
>> The result is, it didn't work. It kept the HTML formatting of the page,
>> but it filtered out all the JavaScript. There are no external files
>> referencing the JavaScript and jQuery is not being used. Maybe it needs to
>> be an actual mod_david_calc and that will do it? But I must be missing
>> something else in order to do that. Can't imagine getting away from free in
>> Joomla without having to call some Joomla function to make it work. :-)
>>
>> So then I spent time searching and it appears some sort of special
>> treatment is needed for your own JavaScript to be available in Joomla.
>>
>> Why I'm posting about this, is that I would like to get some direction as
>> to what is the best way to do this. Is there a favorite Joomla extension
>> people use to help make all this happen? Also, should it be a module or
>> can/should it be a Joomla Article for this JavaScript calc program? It only
>> needs to appear on one page. Thanks!
>>
>> David Roth
>>
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