Advanced Joomla Development: Create Custom parameter group for module

There is three types group in joomla xml module parameter:

1. params
2. Advsnce
3. Legacy
   

These are fixed .We cannot create any other custom parameter Group. But I myself find a way to create custom parameter group. These are in the following:

1. at first go to administrator\components\com_modules folder then open admin.modules.html.php file
2. in this file go to line 437 Where is .There you can see $p = $params; in line 442 .after this line put this following code:

for($i=0;$i<10;$i++)>

if ($p->getNumParams('a'.$i)) {

echo $pane->startPanel(JText :: _('a'.$i.' Parameters'), "a".$i."-page");

if($params = $p->render('params', 'a'.$i)) :

echo $params;

else :

echo "

".JText::_('There are no parameters for this item')."

";

endif;

echo $pane->endPanel();

}

}

Now in your module XML file put the following code:

<params group="a1">

<param type="text" name="a1" value="Some text" />

<param type="text" name="a1" value="Some text" />

<params />

<params group="a2">

<param type="text" name="a2" value="Some text" />

<param type="text" name="a2" value="Some text" />

<params />

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Advanced Development : Joomla XML

If u want to enter the advanced development in joomla at first you have to clearly learn about xml of joomla. When you want to create any plugin or extensions for joomla like templates, modules, components etc you must have to create a xml file for your extension. This file will introduce your extensions to joomla.

Joomla cannot understand any extensions (templates, modules, components) without xml. XML have to have the necessery informations for the extension, Joomla read those information by parsing xml to understand its extentions.

If u want to work in joomla xml first you have to learn about the syntex about xml.