Joomla Component Template

June 14th, 2007 by spacebass5000

As I have developed a good number of Joomla based sites here over the last few years, one of the things I often utilized was my Base Joomla Component Template. I’ve had this laying around for a while and figured it was time to release them to the world. I should have done this a long time ago. I just never really had the time or the platform to do so.

In all honesty, I’m a little behind the curve as the next iteration of Joomla is about to be released. By this I mean Joomla 1.5. I believe this install file will still work with this version but as of this posting, I am not certain. I imagine I will take a look at this fairly soon. So without further ado, grab the files here.

To use this, simply extract the archive and perform the following:

Rename the files to your liking. I have placed a "xxx" everywhere in the file names where you would want to do this. A great tool for renaming files can be found at http://www.den4b.com/downloads.php?project=ReNamer.
Open up every *.php file and replace "xxx" with the lower-case version of your component’s nomenclature.
Open up every *.php file and replace "XXX" with the upper-case version of your component’s nomenclature. This is only utilized by the language functionality of the component.
Open up the .xml file and edit it to your liking. More specifically, you will want to alter the following fields:
- name
- creationDate
- author
- authorEmail
- authorUrl
- description