public function actionGetItems(&$response, &$status = null)
  {
    $app = JFactory::getApplication();

    // Get additional request parameters
    $id = $app->input->getInt('id');
    if (!is_null($id))
    {
      // Example of how to generate and return an error inside an action function
      if ($id == '101')
      {
        $response = plgJBackendHelloWorld::generateError('HWD_GEN'); // Generic hello world error
        return false;
      }
    }

    // Get the data
        $db = JFactory::getDbo();
         
        // Create a new query object.
        $query = $db->getQuery(true);
         
        // Structure a query joomla stylee
        $query->select($db->quoteName(array('id', 'itemtitle', 'deliverydestination', 'updated', 'status', 'item_image')));
        $query->from($db->quoteName('#__items'));
        $query->where($db->quoteName('status') . ' LIKE '. $db->quote('Collecting Bids'));
        $query->order('updated DESC');
         
        // Reset the query using our newly populated query object.
        $db->setQuery($query);
         
        // Load the results as a list of stdClass objects (see later for more options on retrieving data).
        $requests = $db->loadObjectList();

        if (empty($requests))
      {
        return 'HWD_DAT'; // Article not found
      }

    // Get plugin params - what could we do with this?
    // $option_name = $this->params->get('option_name', 0);


    
      $response['status'] = 'ok';
      $response['total'] = count($requests);

// Do we do pagination in the response or return everything?
      // $response['limit'] = $pagination->limit;
      // $response['offset'] = $pagination->limitstart;
      // $response['pages_current'] = $pagination->pagesCurrent;
      // $response['pages_total'] = $pagination->pagesTotal;
      //$response['items'] = array();

      foreach ($requests as $request)
      {
        $request = array();
        $item['id'] = $request->id;
        $item['title'] = $request->itemtitle;
        $item['alias'] = $request->alias;
        $item['status'] = $request->status;
        $item['created_by'] = $request->created_by;
        $response['requests'][] = $item;
      }

    if ($option_name)
    {
      $response['option'] = 'true';
    }
    return true;
  }