Triggering Contents Plugins to create a customized layout of your fields, to e.g. Sliders or Tabs/ render a google maps plugin /etc

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    George Papadakis
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    25 January 2019
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    Component Template
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    1.5.4
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Some times it is desired to create a customized layout of your fields for item or category view ...
e.g. to create a layout with tabs or sliders containing the display of various fields ...

-- a. First duplicate one of flexicontent templates e.g. 'default' to 'mydefault'

-- b. Edit Content Type e.g. 'Article' to use as predefined item layout the one from 'mydefault'

-- c. In templates management edit item layout of template 'mydefault', and places ALL fields you wish to use in the 'renderonly' position, e.g. fields 'myfielda', 'myfieldb', 'myfieldc'

-- d. Edit file: components/templates/mydefault/item.php and add this code inside it, at appropriate place:

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// STEP 1. Create an empty object c
$c = new stdClass();
 
// STEP 2. Prepare your some text to trigger Content plugins on
// *** NOTICE *** bellow besides ->display, you can use also use ->value[0]  OR ->value[0]['property_name1'] 
$c->text = '';
$c->text .= '{some_plugin_code}';
$c->text .= $this->item->fields['myfielda']->display;
$c->text .= '{some_plugin_code}';
$c->text .= $this->item->fields['myfieldb']->display;
$c->text .= '{some_plugin_code}';
$c->text .= $this->item->fields['myfieldc']->display;
$c->text .= '{some_plugin_code}';


  
// STEP 3. Prepare other properties of the object c, so that it looks like a Joomla article object
$c->title = $this->item->title;
$c->slug = $this->item->slug;
$c->catid = $this->item->catid;
$c->catslug = $this->item->categoryslug;
$c->id = $this->item->id;
$c->state = $this->item->state;
 
// STEP 4. Trigger the content plugins
$dispatcher = &JDispatcher::getInstance();
JPluginHelper::importPlugin('content');
$results = $dispatcher->trigger('onContentPrepare', array ('com_content.article', &$c, &$this->params, 0));
 
// STEP 5. Output the created HTML
echo $c->text;