The save button on the front-end item view of my component doesn't work when I download the component and install it on a site. But when i have been testing/making the component on the j-cook website the save button has worked fine every time. please help... my component is finished apart from this one major problem!

Did you tried with the default Joomla Template (Atomic)

It is for sure a javascript error.

Your component is using js/formvalidator.js which overload the functionalities of the native weak formvalidator.
Try to empty the file (keeping it), and see if it is working. (maybe not sure)

Whatever.
Active the JS console to see where your error is.

Hi thanks for the reply I have done what you have suggested and whilst this does allow the callender picker to work (which also wasn't before) the save button is still doing nothing my js errors are saying "document.formvalidator.submitform is not a function" any ideas really need this to work now.

Is it 1.5 component ?

the js error if i leave the formvalidator.js blank is el.getProperty is not a function.

no its for 2.5

sorry that second error is if formvalidator is not blank

el.getProperty() is a MooTool function.

What JS framework is your template using ?
Can you include MooTools without conflicts ?

You should be able to use another framework if you rewrite inside js/formvalidator.js of your component.
Functions : getValue(), getLabel(), ...


js/formvalidator.js is needed for a clean and nice form validation wich is still not handled by native Joomla.

Hope it helps.

Hi the template i am tring to use it on is jsnDome im trying to find out what framework it uses now but i do know that it uses a js/css compression technique, could this be to do with it? i am rather unsure who to use another framework within the formvalidator.js any help or guiding would be very much appreiciated. cheers

I just found this in the template documentation:

"It utilizes built-in Joomla! MooTools Javascript library so there is no need to integrate any other Javascript framework."

Any further help towards what I'd need to change in the code i really dont know anything about implementing diffrent frameworks?

Ok so i've fixed it, not an ideal fix but it works. I added a plugin called "jQuery Easy" to the website and tweaked the settings and eventually it worked. namely for the front end I turned "strip no-conflict mode" to "No" and "Add No Conflict Code" to "Thru script". This seemed to do the job.

I think it is because your website was using some JQuery conflicting MooTools.

Can I just add an observation on this. I am experiencing the same issue. Installing the jquery plug-in has not fixed the issue for me. I have been downloading free templates whether I can save forms while using them, and 9 out of 10 templates on joomla24 do NOT save. If this jquery issue emerges with so many templates, perhaps its time to take a look at making the javascript in j-cook a little bit more agreeable with jquery.

I'd be interested to know how many others are experiencing this issue or whether it is something particular to the setup of only a few of us.

This is a good suggestion.

Now, I will investigate more.
Maybe for the V2.0

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