TYPO3 4.3 Treasure Chest

By: Steffen Kamper

There are some tiny features that might be hidden. Let's have a look to 2 tiny but very useful treasures ;)

Default Get Vars

You may know the problem: You have a page with a plugin, but the plugin need a GETvar to display content, a call without the parameter shows empty page.

There was no way to define this before. Some plugins have a _DEFAULT_GET_VARS parameter which can be defined. Now we have a global one:

[page.]config.defaultGetVars {...}

Example I

You have a multilingual page, and all pages show default language (L=0) when L is missing. Now force one page to show dutch as default (L=2). Use ext-template on this page and use:

config.defaultGetVars {
   L = 2
}

Example II

You have a page with news single view. Without the record-id in Url you get error message.
The news you want to display by default is id 25, so url would be
&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=25
As the Getvar is an array you write it in normal TS syntax using dots:

config.defaultGetVars {
   tx_ttnews.tt_news = 25
   tx_ttnews.backPid = 2
}

Open page link in Popup

You all know how to make a typolink for open in Popup. Also Links generated in RTE have this option.

But how to open a page link generated in a normal Menu as Popup?
Now this is really simple, open the page properties of the page you want to open in Popup. use the target field for configure the Popup.

Examples

400x200  opens Page in Popup size 400x200

600x400:rezizable=0,location=1  opens Page in Popup size 600x400 with additional Parameters

100 300x200  opens Page in Popup 300x200 with Pagetype 100 (&type=100)

2 _blank  opens Page in new window  with Pagetype 2 (&type=2)

You can read this also in the CSH help of the target field.

I hope you enjoy these features.