Registering a task in a Joomla controller

Question

I am trying to register a custom task in my controller in Joomla 3.x so I am modifying the constructor (like in 1.5/2.5) with:

<?php
 // No direct access to this file
defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access');

class jjemailControllerjjemail extends JControllerLegacy
 {
/**
 * constructor (registers additional tasks to methods)
 * @return void
 */
public function __construct($config = array())
{
    parent::__construct($config);

    // Register Extra tasks
    $this->registerTask('email, 'email');
}

public function email()
{
    $this->setRedirect('index.php?option=com_jjemail&view=thanks', $msg);
}
}

Now if I add a var dump in the constructor before the task registering then that is showing but adding a var dump into the email() function is giving nothing. So I guess I'm failing at registering the task somewhere.

The route calling this looking like: JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_jjemail&task=jjemail.email');

Anyone got any ideas as to why I'm failing in such stupid fashion?

Answer 1

As of Joomla 1.5 you don't need to register default tasks' names. You only register aliases to map them to one of controller's methods:

$this->registerTask('emailAbc, 'email');
$this->registerTask('unpublish, 'publish');

If you cannot stop execution of the app it would suggest you are calling wrong task from your form/link.

Check your form/link whether it contains a proper task like: option=com_jjemail?task=jjemail.email Joomla will do all job for you, mapping "jjemail.email" to the email method of your controller