#ARTISTEER 4 SAVE FIX UPDATE#

The error was thrown at line 700 of that file in the function save.

We discovered that the error (which is stored in the constant JLIB_APPLICATION_ERROR_SAVE_FAILED) was thrown by the file controllerform.php which is located under the libraries/joomla/application/component directory. We then started searching Joomla’s core files to see where this error is thrown.

#ARTISTEER 4 SAVE FIX UPDATE#

We reduced the method to just a simple update to one table (and we made sure that the query works), but to no avail, we were still seeing the same error! Now, as soon as we removed the save method, everything worked as it should, so the problem really lied in that method. This will allow the developer to write his own custom save, which is particularly helpful when the form saves its data to multiple tables. The save method, for those of you who don’t know, will override the standard save method of the component. In fact, the model was pretty standard, with just one difference, we were using the save method. We checked the model of the form that we were trying to save, and everything seemed OK. The above tells us that there is a problem with saving the data (and indeed the data was not saved), but it didn’t tell us why. Save failed with the following error: (with the colon at the end) We were seeing the following error while trying to save the data in a Joomla form that we have created in the admin: Note: This post is targeted at Joomla developers.

Artisteer 4 save fix