How to find your site’s absolute path in Joomla ?

One common issue occurs while you install a module or plugin in Joomla is that you get error message “JFolder::create: Could not create directory”. This occurs because you don’t have write permission on tmp foler. If you have write permission on tmp folder and still you get this error then check path of tmp folder.

Joomla component error messages and its solutions.

If Your are a Joomla Extension Developer and write custom component then you may face following error. I try to give possible solutions of these common errors in below post.

How can check that Joomla component is active or not ?

In Joomla programming sometime you need to check that component is active or not. Because it is good practice to check first the component is active , instead of getting errors in module. JComponentHelper class has a useful function to perform this task. Following example will shows how to check. if (!JComponentHelper::isEnabled(‘com_test’, true)) { return JError::raiseError(JText::_(‘Test

Load Joomla liabrary files into module/plugin

jimport() is a core function of joomla and used to load joomla library files. For example : jimport( ‘joomla.plugin.helper’ ); this syntax will load the file “helper.php” from the joomla liabrary path like : your_site\libraries\joomla\plugin now you can use this library file functions like as follows : // Import the user plugin group. JPluginHelper::importPlugin(‘user’); // Get the dispatcher.

How to use Joomla Model function into a module or plugin ?

You can use Joomla model function into a module/plugin or another joomla extension using following code. Following example shows us how to show a joomla article in a custom extension. jimport(‘joomla.application.component.model’); JModel::addIncludePath(JPATH_SITE . ‘/components/com_content/models’); $Model = JModel::getInstance(‘Article’, ‘ContentModel’); $articleId = ‘1’; //We used here ‘1’ article id $article = $Model->getItem($articleId); echo $article->introtext; Output : [