[TYPO3-dev] Need some pointers for site configuration

[Bram Vandenbussche]

Bram Vandenbussche schreef:
> Ok, so what I'm about to ask may already be answered in the thousands of 
> posts that are already in here, but searching for this is not that obvious.
> 
> What I'm trying to do is pretty basic when you look at it from a 
> developers perspective (which is me) but it has got me in the blue when 
> it comes to typo3 configuration. Let me sketch the situation:
> 
> I've got a typo3 install with a few sites running in it. Among those 
> sites are numerous "portfolio" sites. I'm using the DAM extension to 
> manage all of the images into categories and such. (about 3 levels of 
> categories in all I think).
> 
> Each site contains a page called "Portfolio" or "Gallery" or something 
> like that. When this page is loaded, I would like to display a menu (ul) 
> with the first level of categories for that site. When you click on one, 
> it opens the subcategories on the next line, and this goes on, until 
> there are no more subcategories. When you click on an endpoint (category 
> with no subcategories) it should load the same page, but this time 
> enables the SmoothGallery component (which is capable of showing a set 
> of images for a given DAM category) which then shows the images for the 
> given category.
> 
> Like I said, this is fairly easy if you're working as a developer but 
> I'm clueless as of how to implement this in Typo3. This is pretty 
> standard behaviour I think, so somebody must have done this before.
> 
> I'm stuck trying to show the menu of categories on a single page and I 
> have no idea how I have to pass the category ID's to the SmoothGallery 
> component.
> 
> Anyone has any practical help? I'm not sure under wich group this falls 
> so I'm just posting it here, if it needs to be directed somewhere else, 
> just let me know.
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
> 

I'm overwhelmed with all the lack of response here.. :P
Does this mean it's impossible or that no one has ever done this before?

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