hello!

well, changing the album tabs is actually not "that" easy.. this is the default page for artists, so it can only be achieved by making several code changes to never show the album tab... it's not something you should do yourself... it should be done as custom work...

same for the new fields: there are several files involved in order to have new fields... plus database table changes...! not a good idea do it by yourself if you're not a joomla developer... you know what I mean?

Hey,

I have customized quite a few components so I at least want to have a go at doing this. You say it's not something I should do myself however you don't know what I can do so at least give me some faith ^^. I will start looking through all the files but if you know the main file that displays this default page then I can start there.

Also I don't necessarily want to add new fields, just change the name of the current ones. So again if you know the main files contain the coding for the fields that would help me out greatly too.

Thanks dude

ok, here we go (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!)

basically you need to change ALL links to the artist page to point to the SONGS page. that's the first thing.

look into the VIEW layout files, such as /views/album/tmpl/default.php
and the others.

look for the artist links, which have this appearance:

JRoute::_( 'index.php?option=com_muscol&view=artist&id='

(and some more code that prints de ID)

you need to change ALL these for

JRoute::_( 'index.php?option=com_muscol&view=songs&id='

you need to change view=artist for view=songs

you can just try to make a global "replace all".. but I would do that, it can mess up things....

look also on the helper/helper.php which creates links. in this file you will find the function taht creates the TABS, called

function artist_tabs()

Any way to get songs to show up first & albums on the second tab? I don't want to get rid of albums, but my site's focus is the songs.

hmm.. to allow this we would actually need to change all the links to the "artist" page, to point to the "artist songs" page, which is a different one. do you know what I mean?
code must be changed on many pages... it requires a little bit of custom coding work.