How to access zoo component data from anywhere

Question

need to access any information from zoo component from anywhere, like app information, elements from a app template. In this case i need to access to this information from my Joomla 3 template to make a dynamic-custom CSS.

In joomla you can get the template name from anywhere with something like this:

$app = JFactory::getApplication();
$template = $app->getTemplate();

I am looking for something like that for zoo.

Thanks in advance!!

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 05 '15 at 16:17

It's not as easy as that as its not a core component but you can get element data for example:

http://paulmason.name/item/yootheme-zoo-accessing-element-data-with-joomla-code

You can always write code to fetch the json data from their database tables and access it that way.

Ray Lawlor · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-03T23:35:05.073

You can do this by calling:

    // make sure ZOO exists
    if (!JComponentHelper::getComponent('com_zoo', true)->enabled) {
        return;
    }

    // load ZOO config
    jimport('joomla.filesystem.file');
    if (!JFile::exists(JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR.'/components/com_zoo/config.php') || !JComponentHelper::getComponent('com_zoo', true)->enabled) {
        return;
    }
    require_once(JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR.'/components/com_zoo/config.php');

    // make sure App class exists
    if (!class_exists('App')) {
        return;
    }


    // Get the ZOO App instance
    $zoo = App::getInstance('zoo');

The $zoo var now holds the ZOO app instance. From there you can start to run ZOO specific tasks and run event handlers etc.

How to access zoo component data from anywhere

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