[Typo3-dev] Passing arbitrary values to an extension (not predefined by a selectorbox)

[Rainer Kuhn]

Hi list,

I'm working on a frontend plugin extension that sends request via SNMP and 
displays the results on a TYPO3 page. For this issue it would be a good 
feature if the user could enter the SNMP object id, e.g. 
"1.3.6.1.4.1.5040.1.2.1.1.4.1.1." (or parts of it), when he inserts the 
plugin into a page. Like this it would be easy to send SNMP requests to 
arbitrary SNMP objects.

Using a selectorbox via extending tt_content does not offer the possibility 
to enter arbitrary strings. The only way I know so far to offer the user a 
possiblity to enter arbitrary strings and pass them to an extension is the 
CODE field, which is deprecated AFAIK 
(http://typo3.org/documentation/mailing-lists/user-list-archive/thread/29/?tx_maillisttofaq_pi1%5Bsort%5D=view_stat%3A1&tx_maillisttofaq_pi1%5Bmode%5D=5).

Is there any other possiblity to pass arbitrary values (which are not 
predefined by a selectorbox) to an extension?

Thanks for any hints!


Regards,
Rainer