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How to display a component's output and nothing else

Written by Cory

Saturday, 28 October 2006

I know it sounds weird, but I came across a situation in which I needed to see a component's output and nothing else. That allowed me to better debug the HTML that was coming from the component.

Special thanks to Dean Marshall for showing me this nifty little trick.

It's pretty simple, just follow these steps:

Create a menu item that links to your component.
Once you have created your menu item, click on that menu item in your Menu Manager like you were going to edit the menu item.
Next to "URL", you should see something like "index.php?option=com_yourcomponent&...". Copy that URL.
In the browser address bar, type the domain name and path to your website along with the URL information you copied in the previous step.
Change "index.php" to "index2.php", and voila! You are now looking at just your component's output.

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Hank Hill: ...

Thanks! That's awesome. I have been trying to figure out how to do that!

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December 16, 2006
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Alex2: ... http://www.extreemmetaal.nl

Cool, just what I needed, but let me ask: Is it save to edit that index2.php layout a bit (move text, add colours/images)?

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December 16, 2006
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Cory: ... http://www.howtojoomla.net

@Hank: I'm glad you found this useful. Oh, and tell Bobby I said hello.

@Alex2: It is not safe to edit index2.php, and I do not recommend it. The way you would change the layout is by either changing your template's CSS, or by changing the code in the component you are looking at.

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December 16, 2006
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Sarah: ... http://www.itamer.com

Bear in mind that index2.php will still process the output and make changes - ie urls become relative, and it does put in header and css information.

I'm not sure how to get nothing but your output but I'm looking!!!

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February 22, 2007
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si0che: ... http://don't have any website

hi bro.. i have a little case, can u change the button readmore or else to index2.php, or frist load web call index2.php first time.. can u help me ??

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