Learning Joomla! 3 Extension Development - Third Edition

Creating the module PHP file

There is actually more than one PHP file used in our module, we are going to create three. We will start out by creating a file mod_latestextensions.php in our mod_latestextensions folder, which is the first file that is executed when Joomla! loads our module. Create the file and add the following code:

<?php
defined('_JEXEC') or die;

require_once __DIR__ . '/helper.php';

$list = mod_latestextensionsHelper::getList($params);
$moduleclass_sfx = htmlspecialchars($params->get('moduleclass_sfx'));
require JModuleHelper::getLayoutPath('mod_latestextensions', $params->get('layout', 'default'));

All our PHP files will include the defined or die statement that prevents people from directly executing this PHP file. We then use ...