plugin¶

Properties for all frontend plugin types¶

userFunc ¶

Type

(array of keys)

Property setting up the USER and USER_INT object of the plugin.

_CSS_DEFAULT_STYLE ¶

Type

string / stdWrap

Use this to have some default CSS styles inserted in the header section of the document. _CSS_DEFAULT_STYLE outputs a set of default styles, just because an extension is installed. Most likely this will provide an acceptable default display from the plugin, but should ideally be cleared and moved to an external stylesheet.

This value is read by the frontend RequestHandler script when collecting the CSS of the document to be rendered.

This is for example used by frontend and indexed_search. Their default styles can be removed with:

EXT:site_package/Configuration/TypoScript/setup.typoscript

plugin.tx_frontend._CSS_DEFAULT_STYLE >
plugin.tx_indexedsearch._CSS_DEFAULT_STYLE >

Copied!

However, you will then have to define according styles yourself.

Properties for all frontend plugins based on Extbase¶

Extbase is an extension framework to create frontend plugins.

ignoreFlexFormSettingsIfEmpty ¶

Type

string

Example

Ignore certain FlexForm settings if empty

New in version 12.3

Define FlexForm settings that will be ignored in the extension settings merge process, if their value is considered empty (either an empty string or a string containing 0).

Additionally, there is the PSR-14 event BeforeFlexFormConfigurationOverrideEvent available to further manipulate the merged configuration after standard override logic is applied.

persistence ¶

Type

array of settings

Example

Set recursive storage PID for Extbase plugin

Settings, relevant to the persistence layer of Extbase.

persistence.enableAutomaticCacheClearing ¶

Type

boolean

Default

true

Only for Extbase plugins. Enables the automatic cache clearing when changing data sets (see also Caching).

persistence.storagePid ¶

Type

string (comma separated list of integers)

Example

Set recursive storage PID for Extbase plugin

Only for Extbase plugins. List of page IDs, from which all records are read.

persistence.recursive ¶

Type

integer

Example

Set recursive storage PID for Extbase plugin

Only for Extbase plugins. Number of sub-levels of the storagePid are read.

view.[settings] ¶

Type

settings

Example

Set template paths for Extbase plugin

View and template settings.

All root paths are defined as an array which enables you to define multiple root paths that will be used by Extbase to find the desired template files.

The root paths work just like the one in the FLUIDTEMPLATE.

view.layoutRootPaths.[array] ¶

Type

string

Example

Set template paths for Extbase plugin

Only for Extbase plugins. This can be used to specify the root paths for all Fluid layouts. If nothing is specified, the path EXT:my_extension/Resources/Private/Layouts is used.

view.partialRootPaths.[array] ¶

Type

string

Example

Set template paths for Extbase plugin

Only for Extbase plugins. This can be used to specify the root paths for all Fluid partials. If nothing is specified, the path EXT:my_extension/Resources/Private/Partials is used.

view.templateRootPaths.[array] ¶

Type

string

Example

Set template paths for Extbase plugin

Only for Extbase plugins. This can be used to specify the root paths for all Fluid templates in this plugin. If nothing is specified, the path EXT:my_extension/Resources/Private/Templates is used.

view.pluginNamespace.[array] ¶

Type

string

Example

Set template paths for Extbase plugin

This can be used to specify an alternative namespace for the plugin. Use this to shorten the Extbase default plugin namespace or to access arguments from other extensions by setting this option to their namespace.

mvc.[setting] ¶

Type

array of settings

Only for Extbase plugins. These are useful MVC settings about error handling:

mvc.callDefaultActionIfActionCantBeResolved ¶

Type

boolean

Default

false

Example

Call default action if action cannot be resolved

Only for Extbase plugins. If set, causes the controller to show its default action if the called action is not allowed by the controller.

mvc.throwPageNotFoundExceptionIfActionCantBeResolved ¶

Type

boolean

Default

false

Example

Show 404 (page not found) page if action cannot be resolved

Same as Properties for all frontend plugins based on Extbase but this will raise a "page not found" error.

format ¶

Type

string

Default

html

Example

Define alternative output formats for RSS feeds

Warning

Using this parameter is considered bad practice. In most cases it is better use different actions for different output formats.

Define the default file ending of the template files. The template files have to take care of creating the desired format output.

_LOCAL_LANG.[lang-key].[label-key] ¶

Type

string

Example

Override a language key in an Extbase plugin

Can be used to override the default language labels for Extbase plugins. The lang-key setup part is default for the default language of the website or the 2-letter (ISO 639-1) code for the language. label-key is the 'trans-unit id' XML value in the XLF language file which resides in the path Resources/Private/Language of the extension or in the typo3conf/l10n/[lang-key] (var/labels/[lang-key] in composer mode) subfolder of the TYPO3 root folder. And on the right side of the equation sign '=' you put the new value string for the language key which you want to override.

All variables, which are used inside an Extbase extension with the ViewHelper <f:translate> can that way be overwritten with TypoScript. The locallang.xlf file in the plugin folder in the file system can be used to get an overview of the entries the extension uses.

settings.[setting] ¶

Type

array of custom settings

Here reside are all the settings, both extension-wide and plugin-specific. These settings are available in the controllers as the array variable $this->settings and in any Fluid template with {settings}.

The settings for a specific plugin can be overridden by FlexForm values of the same name.

Extbase plugin TypoScript examples¶

plugin.tx_myextension.ignoreFlexFormSettingsIfEmpty = field1,field2

plugin.tx_myextension_myplugin.ignoreFlexFormSettingsIfEmpty = field1,field2

plugin.tx_myextension_myplugin.ignoreFlexFormSettingsIfEmpty := removeFromList(field1)
plugin.tx_myextension_myplugin.ignoreFlexFormSettingsIfEmpty := addToList(field3)

plugin.tx_blogexample_admin {
    persistence {
        enableAutomaticCacheClearing = 0
    }
}

plugin.tx_blogexample {
    persistence {
        storagePid = 42
        # Includes 4 sub-levels of the storagePid
        recursive = 4
    }
}

plugin.tx_blogexample {
    view {
        layoutRootPaths {
            0 = EXT:blog_example/Resources/Private/Layouts/
            10 = EXT:my_extension/Resources/Private/Layouts/
        }
        partialRootPaths {
            0 = EXT:blog_example/Resources/Private/Partials/
            10 = EXT:my_extension/Resources/Private/Partials/
        }
        templateRootPaths {
            0 = EXT:blog_example/Resources/Private/Templates/
            10 = EXT:my_extension/Resources/Private/Templates/
        }
    }
}

plugin.tx_blogexample {
    mvc {
        callDefaultActionIfActionCantBeResolved = 1
    }
}

plugin.tx_blogexample {
    mvc {
        throwPageNotFoundExceptionIfActionCantBeResolved = 1
    }
}

plugin.tx_blogexample_rssfeedxml {
    // Use template List.xml
    format = xml
}
plugin.tx_blogexample_rssfeedatom {
    // Use template List.atom
    format = atom
}

plugin.tx_myext_pi1._LOCAL_LANG.de.list_mode_1 = Der erste Modus