Yes, I understand and agree. But we need to do this on one website. If you could explain how, it would be much appreciated.

Hi there,
when "password recovery" is switched on, users can receive a new password by entering their username and email address. Is it possible to remove the need to enter username? i.e. just email address?

Part 2 - Creating a component

A component is (usually) the most complex extension type as it provides advanced functionality. A component is what actually builds pages in Elxis. This is a quick and easy way to start developing a component. This guide follows the most common architecture (MVC) but you can use whatever you like, Elxis doesn't force you to follow a specific design standard. Be yourself!

Let's say we want to create component "Sports". We assume you work on your local development computer.

Create this folder: components/com_sports/
Create 2 files: components/com_sports/sports.php and components/com_sports/sports.xml

These are the required by Elxis files, all the rest are optional! sports.php is the component's router, and sports.xml contains information of the extension and optionally configuration parameters. When you visit your component's pages you will see the word "sports" in the URL. Whatever is under "sports" gets handled by your component. Elxis Router  initially will get user's request, validate it and load the corresponding component, language files, etc. So the Elxis router will load file "sports.php". Then you must analyze the rest of the URL to see what you will do with the user's request.

<?php
defined('_ELXIS_') or die ('Direct access to this location is not allowed');

class sportsRouter extends elxisRouter {

   private $controller = 'public';
   private $task = 'frontpage';

   public function route() {
      //code here   
   }

}

?>

From your router you load the proper controller, model and view and execute the proper method inside the controller file. So, create these folders to put your files: com_sports/controllers/, com_sports/views, com_sports/models/

As Elxis is fully multilingual create a folder named language to add your language strings which you want to use within your component. Name language files as en.com_sports.php, de.com_sports.php, it.com_sports.php, etc. Note that Elxis detects and loads the proper file automatically, so you dont have to do anything else with them.

Create also a folder named includes, or inc, or whatever, to add there your helping classes, css, javascript, images, etc. Off course you can have a totally different filesystem structure.

Elxis will install automatically your ready-to-install zip package. However if you want to perform custom actions during install such as creating database tables (or even on update or uninstall), then also add a file named install.php. You will add your spcial code there.

class com_sports_installer {
    public function install() {}
    public function update() {}
    public function uninstall() {}
}

Now, you have created a very basic structure of your component and you have created the request to your component's frontpage (just echo Hello World for now). Let's tell Elxis we have a new component there. Note that the instructions mentioned below are performed by Elxis automatically during install but as you create just now the component and the installer has not run you must do them manually. To be more accurate, we can already zip the component, delete the folder, and install it but better proceed with the manual process below.

Go to PHP My Admin
Table elx_acl (access management)
Add 2 entries for component Sports, one for action view and one for action manage. Set the default values:
category element identity action minlevel gid uid aclvalue    
component com_sports 0 view 0 0 0 1
component com_sports 0 manage 70 0 0 1

Table elx_components (declare component)
Add 1 entry
name component route iscore params
Sports com_sports NULL 0 NULL

We are ready. Open your browser and navigate to component's frontpage:

https://elxis.loc/sports/ (or whatever is your localhost URL)

You should see "Hello world" (or whatever you added). It is very normal to see some error as you might missed something in your component. If you see blank page (php fatal error) enable the display of errors in elxis configuration file. In fact during development have the display of errors always to ON. Open file "configuration.php" and set ERROR_REPORT = 3 (show errors, warnings and notices) and/or ERROR_LOG = 3 (Elxis log files are in Elxis repository folder).

From that point you can continue the development of your component, method by method. See how other components are made and ask below for guidance and help.

Hello again. Apologies if this has already been asked, but my searches turned up empty. I'm working on a new component but I cannot find developer documentation for Elxis 5.4+. Is this available, or should I use existing components as a guide to develop a working framework to get me started? Thanks!

At the first line of the code try this: if ($eLang->currentLang() == 'fr' || $eLang->currentLang() == 'es') {