[#9796] - Improve plugins scaffolding for custom fields
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This is a redo of #4294
Summary of Changes
Right now if you want to include some custom fields in your plugin you need to include a custom field path in the relative xml file, something like:
<fieldset addfieldpath="/plugins/system/<plugin name>/field">
Documented here: https://docs.joomla.org/Creating_a_custom_form_field_type
This PR leverages this, so custom fields will happily reside inside a folder named field
Why field and not fields?
Singular word help us transition to autoload and namespace
Testing Instructions
Apply this patch with patch tester
Go to plugins tinyMCE and if you can see a dropdown for the skins you have a successful test:
Also go to Profile and check the Term of service and Date of birth, if dropdown then success:
Check the stats plugin and observe that all fields are correctly rendered/functioning
B/C
No backwards compatibility break
Performance
We just add one more folder check to the whole stack, so performance degradation should be unnoticeable. (Joomla itself does that hundreds of times for core libraries)
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