[Typo3-dev] how to create an individual search-form in an extension

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

Michael Stucki wrote:
> Wolfgang Klinger wrote:
> 
>>>How do I set up this form?
>>
>> Possibly with a template system
>> (http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/search/smarty/)
> 
> TYPO3 has its own template system, so why should one use something different
> for this?

Smarty is just faster and sometimes more convinient to implement than
typoscript. I used it in a number of projects too.

There are generally a number of options:
- directly hardcoded HTML (well, I even do not want to discuss this!)
- TS (not really convinient to create complex modern UI)
- HTML template and marks (you have to replace many many marks of you
want to generate UI properly)
- TemplaVoila (nice but misses a way to import template objects when
extensions are installed)
- Smarty (very flexible but less abstract from code than TemlaVoila)

For now I prefer TemplaVoila but with Smarty it really faster and more
convinient now. If only I could import TemplaVoila template objects when
extension is installed...

Dmitry.