[TYPO3-dev] Manually rendering Content elements in BE

[Elmar Hinz]

Am Sun, 06 May 2007 20:01:57 +0200 schrieb Jens Mittag:

> Hi!
> 
> I have the need of rendering a content element in a BE module I'm
> writing. Up to now, I have the record of the element from "tt_content".
> What I would like to do now is:
> 
> 1) How can I find out which extension/class is handling the "CType" or
> "list_type" value of the record?
> 
> 2) How can I render the content once I know "who" is responsible for
> it? 
> 
> I have checked the source code of Typo3 already, but it's difficult to
> find out where exactly the frontend is doing these steps. I ended up in
> tslib_pagegen and tslib_fe but the code isn't too straight forward and
> clean. Hopefully one of you can give me a hint.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Jens

Hi Jens,

the stuff you mentioned is FE related, list_type, TS, record
rendering, etc. BE Modules use completely different libraries and
technologies. Guess you best read some of the basical documents of
TYPO3 before you will be able to start coding with some fun.

Regards

Elmar