[TYPO3-dev] getRootline function not stopping

[Martin Kutschker]

Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] schrieb:
> Dmitry Dulepov [typo3] wrote: on 09.07.2008 15:45:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Martin Kutschker wrote:
>>>> If you are in Frontend, you can actually use
>>>> $GLOBALS['TSFE']->tmpl->rootLine, which is the rootline for the current
>>>> web site.
>>>
>>> I don't think that this distinction is clear from the inline docs.
>>> Needless to say that having an isRoot-flag both in the page and the
>>> template records doesn't make things easier. *
>>
>> I absolutely and fully agree.
>>
>>> * Is it somewhere stated what these flags actually do and why there are
>>> two of them?
>>
>> Not really. I think "Is site root?" in page properties was created to
>> avoid searching for root TS template in some functions.
> 
> The flag is used:
> 
> - in "sliding" functions (to stop the sliding),
> - typolink uses it to stop looking for a domain record.
> - also it is used by the page-tree (in BE) to put the "domain name"
> besides the page title in case options.pageTree.showDomainNameWithTitle
> is set.
> - for TCA methods that can substitute the marker "###SITEROOT###", this
> is the flag that is checked for this.
> 
> AFAIK these are the only parts where is_siteroot is used, besides the
> mentioned RealURL part.

Besides the fact, that a template could include a template with the
is-root-flag set, could the flag in the template be obsoleted like the
page types advanced and not-in-menu? Here we have the same thing: two
options with the same (?) meaning.

Masi