Component Writer's Guide :: Adding events

An event is a property, exactly the same, but it starts with On, for example:

    function getOnTestEvent() { return $this->readOnTestEvent(); }
    function setOnTestEvent($value) { $this->writeOnTestEvent($value); }

Starting with On, the IDE knows are events.

To fire an event in your component, there is a helper function name callEvent, for example:

$this->callEvent('onbeforeshow',array());

That function checks if the event is assigned or not and call it with the params you want.