Developing an edit item view for our component
Besides listing projects from the database, our component is a tool to manage them. As a project manager, you need to be able to edit your projects. Let’s see how we can edit our projects in this section.
To add an edit screen for our projects, we will create an edit view for our projects. To do this, we need the following:
- A
Projectview inside ourViewfolder - A model to get the data or our project from the database and to save our changes
- A layout file inside the
tmplfolder to show our edit form - A
ProjectControllerfield inside ourControllerfolder
Let’s start our first edit item view.
Creating a Project view
A single-item view looks quite like the list view in Joomla!, but there are some important changes we need to be aware of. To add this view, create the src/component/admin/src/View/Project/HtmlView.php file and then the HTMLView class extending it, as we did in the previous section...
