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The plugins form field type provides a dropdown list of plugins from the specified folder.

• type (mandatory) must be plugins.
• name (mandatory) is the unique name of the field.
• label (mandatory) (translatable) is the field html label.
• folder (mandatory) eg editors or captcha
• description (optional) (translatable) is the field description.

Implemented by: libraries/src/Form/Field/PluginsField.php

Example XML parameter definition¶

<field  name="editor" 
        type="plugins" 
        folder="editors"
        description="COM_USERS_USER_FIELD_EDITOR_DESC"
        label="COM_USERS_USER_FIELD_EDITOR_LABEL" >
        <option value="">JOPTION_USE_DEFAULT</option>
</field>

or

<field  name="captcha" 
        type="plugins" 
        folder="captcha"
        label="COM_CONTACT_FIELD_CAPTCHA_LABEL"
        description="COM_CONTACT_FIELD_CAPTCHA_DESC"
        default=""
        filter="cmd" >
        <option value="">JOPTION_USE_DEFAULT</option>
        <option value="0">JOPTION_DO_NOT_USE</option>
</field>