Information and documentation

You can find out more about FOF 3 and read its documentation in its documentation wiki.

Minimum requirements

PHP 5.3.4 or later, 5.4 or higher recommended. Joomla! 3.3.1 or later, the latest release is recommended.

Changelog

Bug fixes

• Calendar field type, notice thrown when the format attribute was not defined
• Filter order and direction not passed correctly to the view
• Floating sidebar and messages didn't play along nicely
• InstallScript would screw up trying to remove post-installation messages resulting in removal not happening
• Media field: did not take `directory` attribute into account
• Relation field: wrong Model object instance used
• Scaffolidng: some language keys had a double underscore
• Two Model fields on the same form would result in the wrong data being displayed
• Typo: tdwith instead of tdwidth in Scaffolding

New features

• Add relation depth support in Forms
• Add support for [TOKEN] in XML form field text replacements
• Allow field value overrides when copying items
• Container: assign custom platform classes with platformClass parameter
• DataModel: getRawDataArray() to get the raw database query results
• DataModel::check() set default ordering to 0 when it's NULL
• DataModel::check(): use default value for NOT NULL but empty fields
• DataModel\Collection: reset() allows you to clear all elements in the collection
• Improve performance of AccessLevel field in Browse views
• Improve performance of Language field in Browse views
• Model header and form field: "with" attribute
• Preliminary changes for PHP 7 compatibility
• ViewTemplate field: pass $this->item as $model in repeatable (browse) mode
• XML forms pass the format and tmpl parameters if they are set in the request
• You can now set default values for the add task

Miscellaneous changes

• Reworked Tags field
• Suppress warnings in Selectable and GenericList headers when developers provide invalid list data