Creating the component base

Let's start with the basics, step by step. We are going to work a bit on the frontend of our component. I think it will be easier to start in the frontend part. We are going to create a com_tinynews folder inside our components folder. Inside this folder, create a tinynews.php file with the following content:

<?php
            defined( '_JEXEC' ) or die( 'Restricted access' );
            require_once( JPATH_COMPONENT.DS.'controller.php' );
            $controller = new TinynewsController();
            $controller->execute($task = null);
        

Again, here we are using the _JEXEC constant to check if our file is being called by Joomla!. Then we require the controller.php file, which we haven't created yet.

The JPATH_COMPONENT constant defines the path to our component, and the DS constant defines the directory separator, be it / or \, depending on the system.

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