[TYPO3-dev] FluidPage Extension

[Zachary Davis]

In case you missed it, check out Soren's extension:

http://buzz.typo3.org/people/soeren-malling/article/fluidtemplate-selector-and-backend-layout/

I haven't looked at it in much detail yet, but it appears to be similar 
to what we're doing.

IMHO, 4.7 should really strive to cleanly tie together backend layouts 
and fluid templates as the de facto method for creating page templates. 
95% of the underlying functionality is already present in TYPO3 and it 
would be great if extensions like ours weren't even necessary.

Zach



Kay Strobach wrote:
> Hi,
>
> there is something similar:
>
> EXT:basictemplate (Done with FLUIDTEMPLATE also).
>
> Grüße
> Kay
>
> Am 21.10.2011 01:28, schrieb Zachary Davis:
>> For one, it ties the backend layout to the template that's rendered on
>> the frontend. Without an extension, there's not a good way (that I know
>> of) to figure out what template to use on a page, since you need to walk
>> up the rootline and determine if the template is inherited from a parent
>> page or from the current page.
>>
>> I suppose you could use a fluidtemplate object, although I prefer not to
>> have to setup that object for every template choice. This way, there are
>> some conventions around how variables are assigned to the template,
>> which speeds up our process a bit (eg, the page is accessible as {page}
>> within the view, the ID of the backend layout is assigned, etc.
>>
>> All that said, it's TYPO3 so of course there are many (probably too
>> many) ways to do the same thing ;)
>>
>> Zach
>>
>>
>> Philipp Gampe wrote:
>>> Zach Davis wrote:
>>>
>>>> We released our fluidpage extension on github today after receiving some
>>>> requests to make it public (see this blog post for some backstory:
>>>> http://castironcoding.com/resources/our-blog/sp/view/single/post/reason-9-
>>>>
>>> for-choosing-typo3-fluid-templating-engine.html).
>>>
>>> Even after reading your article and the comments,
>>>
>>> what are the real benefits over the FLUIDTEMPLATE cObject?
>>>
>>> You did some changes to TCA and TSconfig, what else does it provide
>>> which is
>>> not possible with a plain TYPO3 (4.5)?
>>>
>>> Best regards
>
>