Our components and modules are doing a good job of managing the reviews and taking in comments. However, there are a lot of modifications that we could make in order to give our reviewers greater control over the display. Also, now that we have comments, we need a way of moderating them. We will make the following modifications and additions in this chapter:
Publishing and deleting records
Adding an Apply task
Paginating results in list screens
Requiring fields
Performing searches
Migrating toolbars to views
Managing comments
When we first built out the backend for managing the reviews, the Publish and Unpublish buttons were added. However, if you try to use these buttons right now, they have no effect. Logic must be added to the controller to handle the publish and unpublish tasks. Let's start with the publish task. Edit the /administrator/components/com_restaurants/restaurants.php file, and add the following function to the RestaurantsController...