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New features

Developer Note

Since this version of Joomla has not been released yet, this page can change anytime.

All the new features that have been added to this version. Any changes in best practice.

Media: a new folder for documents and other non image files​

Until now by default Joomla had only /images folder in Media manager for upload. Starting from 5.3 version Joomla have additional /files folder for non image files, for new installations.

Existing installations will not be affected. To add it to existing installation, need to:

  • Configure Media component and set Path to Files Folder option to files;
  • Configure FileSystem - Local plugin and add files to list of directories, additionally to existing images;

PR: https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/43532

Form control fields​

New methods to manage form control fields. More detail at Form Control fields

PR: https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/43857

Example

Before:

<input type="hidden" name="task" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="foo" value="bar">
<input type="hidden" name="return" value="<?php echo $input->getBase64('return'); ?>">
<?php echo HTMLHelper::_('form.token'); ?>

After:

// Code in Controller/View
$this->form
  ->addControlField('task', '')
  ->addControlField('foo', 'bar')
  ->addControlField('return', $input->getBase64('return', ''));

// Code in the form layout
echo $this->form->renderControlFields();