Plugins form field type

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Provides a dropdown list of plugin options from the folder.

  • name (mandatory) is the unique name of the parameter.
  • type (mandatory) must be plugins.
  • folder (mandatory) editors or captcha.
  • label (mandatory) (translatable) is the descriptive title of the field.
  • description description text for the form field.

Example XML Definition:

<field name="editor" type="plugins" folder="editors"
	description="COM_USERS_USER_FIELD_EDITOR_DESC"
	label="COM_USERS_USER_FIELD_EDITOR_LABEL" >
	<option value="">JOPTION_USE_DEFAULT</option>
</field>
<field name="captcha" type="plugins" folder="captcha"
	label="COM_CONTACT_FIELD_CAPTCHA_LABEL"
	description="COM_CONTACT_FIELD_CAPTCHA_DESC"
	default="" 
	filter="cmd" >
	<option value="">JOPTION_USE_DEFAULT</option>
	<option value="0">JOPTION_DO_NOT_USE</option>
</field>