[TYPO3-dev] EXT extends another ext -> namespace?

[Stephen Bungert]

You can use the t3lib_div function _GET to get a variable from the url:

$theVariable = t3lib_div::_GET('myOtherExt');

"Robert Wildling" <robertwildling at gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1337090165.11998.typo3-dev at lists.typo3.org...
> Hi,
>
> A pi-based et defines
> var $prefixId = "tx_myext_pi1";
>
> in order to get variables from the URL it generates (among other things).
>
> So it is possible to use piVars['name'] to retrieve a value that was set 
> by myext.
>
> But what if myext uses myOtherExt to produce output? In the URL there is 
> no longer a
> &myext[name]=YX
>
> attribute, but a
> &myOtherExt[name]=YX.
>
> I no longer can get the value via piVars[name], because the prefixId is no 
> longer correct.
>
> Changing the prefixId doesn't seem to change anything...
>
> A concrete example is ws_contentpagebrowser which itself relies on Dmitri 
> Dulepos pagebrowse ext. In my scenario it doesn't work, because the begin 
> value always resolves to NULL.
>
> Any idea how to solve this problem?
> Thanks!
> Robert