Joomla! Documentation™

Description

Get the plugin data of a specific type if no specific plugin is specified otherwise only the specific plugin data is returned

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Syntax

& getPlugin($type, $plugin=null)

Parameter Name	Default Value	Description
$type		$type The plugin type, relates to the sub-directory in the plugins directory
$plugin	null	$plugin The plugin name

Returns

mixed An array of plugin data objects, or a plugin data object

Defined in

libraries/joomla/plugin/helper.php

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.plugin.helper' );

Source Body

function &getPlugin($type, $plugin = null)
{
        $result = array();

        $plugins = JPluginHelper::_load();

        $total = count($plugins);
        for($i = 0; $i < $total; $i++)
        {
                if(is_null($plugin))
                {
                        if($plugins[$i]->type == $type) {
                                $result[] = $plugins[$i];
                        }
                }
                else
                {
                        if($plugins[$i]->type == $type && $plugins[$i]->name == $plugin) {
                                $result = $plugins[$i];
                                break;
                        }
                }

        }

        return $result;
}

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