Joomla Plugin

[Poornima Alexander]

Dear All,

How can I view a plugin that I installed (or existing) in the site I developed through Joomla? I enabled the plugin from the plugin manager yet I cannot see the enabled plugin in the site. Please someone help me and give me instructions to view the plugin in the site. 

I really do appreciate if anyone can help me. 

Thank you very much...   

[Shaun Maunder]

Have you developed the plug-in yourself?

If you have developed the plug-in, what type of plug-in is it? What does
it do/or suppose to do? What kind of debugging have you done so far?

If you haven't developed the plug-in then please contact the plug-in
developer or alternatively, post in the Joomla forums
http://forum.joomla.org. This list is for discussions around building
the Joomla! CMS.

Cheers
Shaun

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[Poornima Alexander]

@Shaun

Thanks for the reply. First of all I need to tell that I am new to Joomla.

I have not yet developed the plug-in. I am planning to make a plug-in as follows.

A user should be able to play a video or an audio in the site itself without loading any other web site. And the user should be able to select the media from a list of items which are previously stored in the database (I am planning to make this also facilitated). Is this kind of a weird idea? 

Until now I got somewhat familiar with Joomla with following some videos that were taken from Lynda.com. Now what I want is to get familiar with how plug-ins work in Joomla before developing the plugin. But I just cannot see the plug-in I enabled in the plugin manager. Please help me.

Thank you very much.

[elin]

Every time you open an editor in joomla you are 'seeing" a set of plugins, 

for example the editor itself and all the buttons below it.

Also every time you see an SEF url you are "seeing" a plugin in action. 

Also when you authenticate.

If you enable the user profile plugin you will "see" it when you edit your user profile. 

If you enable the smart search system plugin you will see it when you index is updated without you doing anything and if you disable the  regular search plugins you will see that you don't get to search certain parts of your site any more.

If you enable the contact creator plugin you will see contacts created when you add new users.

In other words plugins are pieces of code that do a variety of jobs for us and make it possible to have a powerful website.  But they don't appear on a page the way a module does (in that case they would be modules) and they don't do the work of a component. 

Elin

[Poornima Alexander]

Thank you very much Elin. I hope you read the description of the plugin that i am going to develop. Yet I still cant exactly decide whether it is a plugin or a module. Are these two different when doing the coding part?