[Typo3-dev] Integrating a new type of text area

[Michael Stucki]

Hello André,

> Often it is enough to have a few possibilities: enumeration with bullets
> (and eventually numbers), seperating lines, bold/italics, headers.
> My idea is, to have text tranformed by "signal characters" as it is in
> wikis, for example in MediaWiki (wikipedia.org).

Nice idea! However keep note that there is a Wiki extension in development,
it will probably do what you're aiming for...

> There you can create an enumeratin by writing:
> * Point 1
> * Point 2
> * Point 3
> 
> So how do I integrate this into Typo3? Is it possible to add a new type of
> field by an extension? (I don't think so.) Also there should be a
> configuration, which of its features are available - so that it does not
> end as the RTE (allows a lot of features but no one knows how to _not_
> allow them). Of course I can use a normal text field and transform it in
> the output, but I'd rather have it generally - selectable for all fields.

What you propose is a new content type just like tables or text elements.
Have a look at class.tslib_content.php and some extensions that provide
content elements, e.g. th_exttable [1] sounds like something quite
similar...

Kind regards
- michael

[1] http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/list/th_exttable/
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