Template for Components in Joomla 1.5

Question

I am developing a Joomla component. They component has its own design and images that aren't relevant to the website. What should I do so that the component should have its own template?

Currently, the component output is displayed in a part of current template. Like the menus footer and header of the main template are displayed and then component data is added in a block. I want the component to control all the template, it should have its own footer header etc.

Answer 1

You can specify tmpl parameter which will call only component.

You can try something like this- http://www.example.com/index.php?option=com_component&tmpl=component

This tmpl parameter calls the component.php of your current template.In the absence of this parameter it calls the site normally with all your modules. I hope this will clear the working of this parameter.