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Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12\/31\/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When working with Joomla 2.5 plugins, you may have noticed that some of the parameters are divided into separate parameter types, such as Basic Options<\/strong> and Advanced Options<\/strong>. If you\u2019re writing your own Joomla 2.5 plugin, you can do this separation by adding parameters to different fieldsets.<\/p>\n

Fieldset Names<\/h2>\n

Here is our helloworld\u2019s xml file thus far:<\/p>\n

<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\n<extension version=\"2.5\" type=\"plugin\" group=\"content\">\n        <name>Hello World<\/name>\n        <author>Brad Markle<\/author>\n        <creationDate>June 18th, 2012<\/creationDate>\n        <copyright>InMotion Hosting<\/copyright>\n        <license>GNU General Public License<\/license>\n        <authorEmail>bradm@inmotionhosting.com<\/authorEmail>\n        <authorUrl>https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com<\/authorUrl>\n        <version>1.0<\/version>\n        <description>This is my very first plugin! Simple Hello World Plugin that prints \"Hello World\" at the beginning of every article.<\/description>\n        <files>\n                <filename plugin=\"helloworld\">helloworld.php<\/filename>\n                <filename>index.html<\/filename>\n        <\/files>\n        <config>\n                <fields name=\"params\">\n                        <fieldset name=\"basic\"><\/strong>\n                                <field name=\"alt-text\"  type=\"text\" default=\"\" label=\"Alternative Text\" description=\"Besides Hello World, you can specify other text here to print to the screen instead.\" \/>\n                        <\/fieldset>\n                        <fieldset name=\"more\"><\/strong>\n                                <field name=\"color\" type=\"radio\" default=\"black\" description=\"Which color should the message be displayed in?\" label=\"Color\">\n                                        <option value=\"black\">black<\/option>\n                                        <option value=\"red\">red<\/option>\n                                        <option value=\"blue\">blue<\/option>\n                                <\/field>\n                                <field name=\"font-size\" type=\"list\" default=\"12\" description=\"What size font should the message use?\" label=\"Font size\">\n                                        <option value=\"8\">8px<\/option>\n                                        <option value=\"12\">12px<\/option>\n                                        <option value=\"16\">16px<\/option>\n                                <\/field>\n                        <\/fieldset>\n                <\/fields>\n        <\/config>\n<\/extension><\/pre>\n
As you can see in the code we have two fieldsets, one named basic<\/strong><\/span> and one named more<\/strong><\/span>. You can see in the screenshot below how this separates the parameters:<\/p>\n
\"fieldset-names\"<\/a><\/p>\n
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Fieldset Language definitions<\/h2>\n
You may have noticed from the screenshot that even though we set the second fieldset with a name of \u201cmore\u201d, it shows as COM_PLUGINS_more_FIELDSET_LABEL. This is because by default there are only a certain set of names that you can use for fieldsets. These names are defined in the following file:<\/p>\n
administrator\/language\/en-GB\/en-GB.com_plugins.ini<\/p>\n
When looking at en-GB.com_plugins.ini, you can see the following fieldset names are defined:<\/p>\n
COM_PLUGINS_ADVANCED_FIELDSET_LABEL=\u201dAdvanced Options<\/strong>\u201d
\nCOM_PLUGINS_BASIC_FIELDSET_LABEL=\u201dBasic Options<\/strong>\u201c<\/p>\n
If you want to label either of your fieldsets as \u201cBasic Options\u201d or \u201cAdvanced Options\u201d, you must set the fieldset name to either basic or advanced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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