Joomla! Documentation™

General Information

Parameters are a mechanism in Joomla! 1.5 that enables administrators to configure Joomla! itself or its extensions. Parameters allow many aspects of the behaviour of Joomla or its extensions to be customised without requiring the user to know how to change the underlying code.

Parameters are handled by the JParameter class, and each parameter type is a subclass of JElement.

Standard parameter types

Standard parameter types

Custom parameter types

It is possible to add support for additional parameter types beyond the standard parameter types. This page lists resources for adding custom parameter types and gives a list of example custom parameter types.

• Creating custom template parameter types

List of custom parameter types

If you are a developer and you have created an interesting or useful custom parameter type, then please feel free to add it this list.

• Multiple item select list
• Multiple item select list with SQL query and user specified options