https://jpcercal.com/en/tags/joomla/Recent content in Joomla on jpcercal.comHugoenMon, 10 Oct 2011 17:32:40 +0000https://jpcercal.com/en/custom-fields-in-the-joomla-panel/Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:32:40 +0000https://jpcercal.com/en/custom-fields-in-the-joomla-panel/<p>Hello, today I needed to add a custom field to the <a href="http://www.joomla.org/" title="Joomla">Joomla</a> 1.6 administration panel for a component I was developing, and decided to share the <em>&ldquo;recipe&rdquo;</em> here on my blog.</p> <p>This tutorial was developed based on the <a href="http://docs.joomla.org/Creating_a_custom_form_field_type" title="Official Joomla Documentation">Official Joomla Documentation</a>.</p> <p>To create a <strong>custom field</strong> type for <em>Joomla 1.6</em>, you must create a class that extends a field type already defined by <em>Joomla</em> itself (<em>media</em>, <em>text</em>, etc), or else the base class for this functionality, which is <em>&ldquo;JFormField&rdquo;</em>.</p>