J3.x:Triggering content plugins in your extension

A common example of using plugins is to run the content plugins on some text. This is useful if you want to support plugins that usually work on Content from a custom extension. For the content prepare trigger you can simply call:

$text = JHtml::_('content.prepare', $text);

For any other content triggers you must call:

$article = new stdClass;
$article->text = $text;

// add more to parameters if needed
$params = new JObject;

// Note JDispatcher is deprecated in favour of JEventDispatcher in Joomla 3.x however still works.
JPluginHelper::importPlugin('content');
$dispatcher = JDispatcher::getInstance();
$dispatcher->trigger('onContentPrepare', array('some.context', &$article, &$params, 0));

You might want to look at core components (for example com_content) for an example. See the triggers page for the possible content plugin triggers.

Also for PHP5.3 compliance please look at the discussion page.

Please look at the discussion page concerning Joomla pagebreak plugin.Gba (talk) 04:51, 18 August 2016 (CDT)