Question

I have a simple component following the hello world tutorial for the most part, and everything works except i’ve added a publish / unpublish icons to the toolbar and to the list itself (the small green / red circles).

The toolbar icons work and they can change the state no problem, but the small icons do not, here is the code I have:

view.html.php:

 protected function addToolBar() 
  {
    JToolBarHelper::title(JText::_('COM_MADS_MANAGER_OBJECTS'));
    JToolBarHelper::publishList($task = 'objects.publish', $alt = 'Publish');
    JToolBarHelper::unpublishList($task = 'objects.unpublish', $alt = 'Unpublish');
    JToolBarHelper::deleteListX('', 'objects.delete');
    JToolBarHelper::editListX('object.edit');
    JToolBarHelper::addNewX('object.add');
  }

tmpl > body:

<?php
// No direct access to this file
defined('_JEXEC') or die;
?>
<?php foreach($this->items as $i => $item): ?>
  <tr class="row<?php echo $i % 2; ?>">
  <td><?php echo $item->id; ?></td>
  <td><?php echo JHtml::_('grid.id', $i, $item->id); ?></td>
  <td><a href="<?php echo JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_mads&task=object.edit&id=' . $item->id); ?>"><?php echo $item->title; ?></a></td>
  <td><?php echo $item->description; ?></td>  
  <td align="center"><?php $published = JHTML::_('grid.published', $item, $i); echo $published;?></td>
  </tr>
<?php endforeach; ?>

I am using the built in publish / unpublish function and did not create one of my own.

Tables:

<?php
// No direct access to this file
defined('_JEXEC') or die;

jimport('joomla.database.table');

class MAdsTableObjects extends JTable
{
    var $id = null;
    var $title = null;
    var $description = null;
    var $published = 0;


  function __construct(&$db) 
  {
    parent::__construct('#__mads_objects', 'id', $db);
  }
}
?>

Answer 1

I figured it out after A LOT OF FREKIN HEADACHE and wasted time, it should be:

<?php echo JHtml::_('jgrid.published', $item->published, $i, 'objects.',true); ?>

where objects. is the name of my view / controller / model for the listing.