Joomla Component Creating an override for the trash button

Question

I'm trying to override the trash button in the administrator back end in Joomla

I'm putting into the controller:

    public function trash( $task = 'trash', $alt = 'trash', $check = true ){
      echo "here";
       exit();
     }

(I've also tried it with task = remove)

But I can't get it to work. Joomla ignores this and simply deletes the field.

I've already put in a save override and save2copy but I can't figure out why this won't work. Can someone help?

thanks

It would be good if you would give a little more context. Are you overriding a core component? Or are you overriding trash in your own component? — Elin

user1616338 user1616338 · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-04T12:56:32

I found the problem - thanks to those who've thought about it.

I'd used an auto component generator and when they had created the class they hadn't included a constructor function. So I added one and it now works fine.

Joomla Component Creating an override for the trash button

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