Event Name

Where does it trigger

Explanation

Mambo

Joomla 1.0.x

Joomla 1.5.x

onStart

Index.php

Triggers before any component , before SEF, but after loading of configuration and database and mainframe initialization. $mainframe is NOT initialized.$Itemid, $option and $task are not initialized. No language file is loaded. $my is not loaded.

No

Yes

No

onAfterInitialise

Index.php

Triggers before any component , before SEF, but after loading of configuration and database and mainframe initialization. $mainframe is NOT initialized.$Itemid, $option and $task are not initialized. No language file is loaded. $my is not loaded.

No

No

Yes

onAfterStart

Index.php

Triggers after frontend, sef and mainframe initialization. No language file is loaded. $my is not loaded.

No

Yes

No

onAfterRoute

Index.php

Triggers afer sef kicks in

No

No

Yes

onAfterDispatch

Index.php

Triggers after the mainframe dispatches

No

No

Yes

onAfterRender

Index.php

Triggers after the mainframe renders the application

No

No

Yes

requiredLogin

includes\authenticator.php

Triggers on login request

Yes

No

No

goodLogin

includes\authenticator.php

Triggers on successful login

Yes

No

No

badLogin

includes\authenticator.php

Triggers on failed Login attempt

Yes

No

No

beforeLogout

includes\authenticator.php

Triggers on logout request

Yes

No

No

onHeaders

includes\core.classes.php

Triggers before headers are sent

Yes

No

No

afterTemplate

index.php

Triggers after the template is loaded

Yes

No

No

preDelete

com_containers\admin.containers.php

Triggers before deleting containers

Yes

No

No

onLoginUser

Application.php

Triggers on a  login attempt

No

No

Yes

onLoginFailure

Application.php

Triggers after a failed login attempt

No

No

Yes

onLogoutUser

Application.php

Triggers on a logout request

No

No

Yes

onLogoutFailure

Application.php

Triggers on a logout failture

No

No

Yes

onBeforeStoreUser

com_user\models\reset.php

Triggers before userdetails are stored

No

No

Yes

onAfterStoreUser

com_user\models\reset.php

Triggers after userdetails are stored

No

No

Yes

onBeforeDeleteUser

libraries\joomla\user\user.php

Triggers before a user is deleted

No

No

Yes

onAfterDeleteUser

libraries\joomla\user\user.php

Triggers before a user is deleted

No

No

Yes

userChange

com_users\admin.users.php

com_registration\registration.php

Triggers on changing user details

Yes

No

No

userBlock

com_users\admin.users.php

Triggers on Blocking an user

Yes

No

No

userUnblock

com_users\admin.users.php

Triggers on unblocking an user

Yes

No

No

userRegister

com_users\admin.users.php

com_registration\registration.php

Triggers on user registration

Yes

No

No

userActivate

com_users\admin.users.php

com_registration\registration.php

Triggers on user Activation

Yes

No

No

userDelete

com_users\admin.users.php

Triggers on user Deletion

Yes

No

No

onPrepareContent

content.html.php

frontend.html.php

Triggers before the content is shown. Triggers in modules too

Yes

Yes

Yes

onAfterDisplayTitle

content.html.php

Triggers after the content title is displayed and only if the content is NOT intro only. It displays wht the function returns

Yes

Yes

Yes

onBeforeDisplayContent

content.html.php

frontend.html.php

Triggers after the content title is displayed. It displays wht the function returns

Yes

Yes

Yes

onAfterDisplayContent

content.html.php

frontend.html.php

Triggers after the content is displayed. It displays wht the function returns

Yes

Yes

Yes

onValidateContact

com_contact\controller.php

Triggers on contact submission, result should contain the validation errors

No

No

Yes

onSubmitContact

com_contact\controller.php

Triggers on contact submission

No

No

Yes

onSearch

search.php

Triggers before the search is performed

Yes

Yes

Yes

onSearchAreas

com_search\models\search.php

Triggers to get the Search areas

No

No

Yes

onGetWebServices

xmlrpc\index.php

Triggers on a RPC call

No

No

Yes

onCustomEditorButton

tinymce_exp.php

tinymce.php

Triggers in Tinymce on display of the toolbar. The expected result is array(‘button_image.jpg’,’htmlcode’)

Yes

Yes

No

onInitEditor

editor.php

Triggers in order to initialize WYSIWYG editors

Yes

Yes

No

onGetEditorContents

editor.php

Triggers in order to get the JS needed to submit the content

Yes

Yes

No

onEditorArea

editor.php

Triggers to display the Editor Area

Yes

Yes

No

onSefStart

joomsef.php

Triggers before a sefRelToAbs is performed

Artio

onSefEnd

joomsef.php

Triggers after a sefRelToAbs is performed

Artio

onSefLoad

sef.php

Triggers on start of the sef component

Artio

onSefUnload

sef.php

Triggers on end of the sef component

Artio

beforeHead

joomsef_metabot.php

Triggers before HTML header is build

Artio