Question

I’m going through the Joomla 2.5 tutorial to build a custom component. Now I’m facing an issue on the redirection after using JToolbar::save() or JToolBarHelper::cancel for that matter. By default Joomla wants to redirect to the default layout (from the edit layout). However I don’t want it to do that. I want it to redirect back to another view. In Joomla 1.5 I would have done this through adding the function into the controller – something like

function cancel()
{
    //redirects user back to blog homepage with Cancellation Message
    $msg = JText::_( 'COM_BLOG_POST_CANCELLED' );
    $this->setRedirect( 'index.php?option=com_jjblog&view=jjblog', $msg );
}

Now that works beautifully for the cancel function, however for save this is a much more complex thing. If I want to overwrite the url do I have to redirect the controller to the model and then write in all the code for the model interaction? Because that seems slightly excessive just for a url redirection like you would in Joomla 1.5?

Answer 1

Hope you have added the save toolbar code with the proper controller name like this

1. JToolBarHelper::save('controllerName.save');
2. Create a save function in appropriate controller.
3. Add the task in the form

4. Finnally make sure you have added form action withthe corresponding component name.