Backend

Entry Point

The entry point contains the very first code that gets executed.

Create the following file:

/administrator/components/com_todo/todo.php

Add the following snippet to the file to load the dispatcher and call the dispatch action:

<?php echo KObjectManager::getInstance()
    ->getObject('com://admin/todo.dispatcher.http')
    ->dispatch();

List View

Let's create the items view using an HTML table to display the sample data.

Create the following file:

/administrator/components/com_todo/view/items/tmpl/default.html.php

Add the following snippet to the view:

<?php
<?= helper('behavior.koowa'); ?>
<ktml:module position="toolbar">
    <ktml:toolbar type="actionbar" title="COM_TODO_SUBMENU_TASKS" icon="task icon-stack">
</ktml:module>
<table>
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th><?= translate('ID') ?></th>
            <th><?= translate('Title') ?></th>
            <th><?= translate('Description') ?></th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
        <? foreach($items as $item) : ?>
        <tr>
            <td>
                <?= $item->id?>
            </td>
            <td>
                <a href="<?= route('view=item&id='. $item->id) ?>">
                    <?= $item->title ?>
                </a>
            </td>
            <td>
                <?= $item->description?>
            </td>
         </tr>
        <? endforeach; ?>
    </tbody>
</table>

The result will be:

Test yourself: http://joomla.box/todo/administrator/index.php?option=com_todo&view=items

Tip: Tags, like <ktml:module> are an important part of the template layer.

Form View

What good is a management level component if you can't edit the data? Let get into the steps you need to follow to get that working.

Create a new template file:

/administrator/components/com_todo/view/item/tmpl/default.html.php

Add the following snippet to the file:

<?php
<?= helper('behavior.koowa'); ?>
<ktml:style src="/media/koowa/com_koowa/css/koowa.css" />
<ktml:module position="toolbar">
    <ktml:toolbar type="actionbar" icon="task-add icon-pencil-2">
</ktml:module>
<form action="<?= route('id='.$item->id) ?>" method="post" class="-koowa-form">
    <div>
        <div>
            <input  type="text" name="title" id="title" size="40" maxlength="255" value="<?= $item->title; ?>" placeholder="<?= translate( 'Title' ); ?>" />
        </div>
        <?= helper('editor.display', array(
            'name' => 'description',
            'id' => 'description',
            'width' => '100%',
            'height' => '300',
            'cols' => '60',
            'rows' => '20',
            'value' => $item->description
        )) ?>
    </div>
</form>

Result:

Tips & Tricks

Saving HTML

If you try to save HTML in the editor you will find that HTML gets stripped out. The framework loads predefined column filters when saving data, depending initially on the type of each table column.

For the description column we set the type to longtext in the database schema which gets filtered as a string. Using a Table object you can allow HTML in the description database column.

Create the following file:

/administrator/components/com_todo/database/table/items.php

Add the following snippet:

<?php
class ComTodoDatabaseTableItems extends KDatabaseTableAbstract
{
    protected function _initialize(KObjectConfig $config)
    {
        $config->append(array(
            'filters' => array(
                'description'  => array('html')
            )
        ));
        parent::_initialize($config);
    }
}

Dispatcher

When there is no view parameter in the request the framework tries to load a view that has the same name as the component, todos in our case.

Using a specialized dispatcher the framework's default can be overwritten and redirect the request to our items view.

Create the following file:

/administrator/components/com_todo/dispatcher/http.php

Add the following snippet to the file, to load the "item" controller as the default:

<?php
class ComTodoDispatcherHttp extends ComKoowaDispatcherHttp
{
    protected function _initialize(KObjectConfig $config)
    {
        $config->append(array(
            'controller' => 'item'
        ));
        parent::_initialize($config);
    }
}

?option=com_todo will now redirect to ?option=com_todo&view=items.

Test yourself: http://joomla.box/todo/administrator/index.php?option=com_todo.