Question

Hi I want to modify the default joomla banner module so instead of displaying only banner image it also displays description text that has been entered in the backend.
Can you help me? Thanks

Answer 1

If you are using default mod_banner of Joomla, you need to add some changes in it to show your description in the module where you want to show it.

1. You need to go to the front-end component, models of com_banners for banners.php.Navigation for it is components\com_banners\models\banners.php in this file on the getListQuery you need to add the following line of code in the 'a.description as description,'. in $query->select like others. That’s it for this file.

2. Now go to your modules\mod_banners\tmpl\default.php and access that variable description as you tried echo $item->description.

Or

If you don’t want to change your core files then you need to do it with Template override the output from the Joomla! core.

For more details go to that link How to override the output from the Joomla! core