[Typo3-dev] Adding new CType to content type selection menu

[Kevin Fredrick]

I have run into the same problem. Does anybody have a suggestion on how 
to fix this?

Mark Hewitt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to add a new "content type" that can appear in the list of
> content types when you edit the body text of a border/page content element
> ( the dropdown containing Text/Text w'th Image/TextBox/HTML/etc ).
> 
> What I want to type to do is allow a user to specify an HTML template that
> can be used to format his body and header text. The HTML template will
> contain markers where the header/body text the user enters into the typo3
> backend is inserted.
> 
> This will allow a user to "reuse" the same layout for many elements, and by
> just changing the HTML template affect a change in look for all those items.
> 
> I have a succeeded in addng a new type to the dropdown list, initially
> simply duplicating the functionality of the HTML element.
> 
> My problem is every time it attempts to render this Typo3 displays an error
> "CType 'html_layout' not defined!"
> html_layout is the name I gave my elements in the content type array.
> Here is my content type array entry:
> 
>   "html_layout" => Array("showitem" => "CType;;4;button;1-1-1,
> header;LLL:EXT:lang/locallang_general.php:LGL.name;;;2-2-2,
>    bodytext;LLL:EXT:cms/locallang_ttc.php:bodytext.ALT.html;;nowrap;3-3-3")
> 
> Does anybody have suggestions as to what I have missed in implementing this?
> 
> 
> Many thanks in advance,
> Mark
> 
> 
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