RSjoomla! - Quality Joomla! Components

In this section, you'll learn about the parts that make a component. From our point of view, a component has four distinct parts:

Now that we know what a component looks like, let's see how you can insert these parts into your layout. We defined a simple placeholder system. The general rule used is:

Let's see a short example on how to integrate our components into the layout. Suppose you created a text box named user_mail and want it to be displayed in the layout. In order to do that, write this in the layout section of RSForm 2.0

{user_mail:caption}
{user_mail:body}
{user_mail:description}
{user_mail:validation}

Let's see another example. Suppose you have three components, a text box (named username), a select list (named user_option) and a submit button with the reset button active (named submit_button). Further more, you want to display these components in a table like view, with the submit and reset button in the center. To do this, write:

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Anatomy of a component