[TYPO3-dev] Import Extension add media files

[DirkHo]

Hi Jigal,

wow, that's great help! Thanks a lot for that detailed description!

Thanks and best wishes,

Dirk

Am 31.05.2015 um 14:09 schrieb Jigal van Hemert:
> Hi,
>
> On 31/05/2015 11:33, DirkHo wrote:
>> I'm developing a content importer for data from my old website to use it
>> in typo3. Therefore I wanted to upload related files (PDFs, GIFs, JPEGs,
>> e.g.).
>>
>> Could you please give me a hint, which classes to use from Typo3 to
>> upload these files to Typo3 and add them as media file to the related
>> content element?
>
> A few snippets as inspiration (not completely tested, may contain small
> errors):
>
> First copy file to final destination in fileadmin and import it into FAL:
>
> // copy using absolute path and filenames
> copy($sourceFile, $targetFile);
> // calculate path and filename relative to site
> $identifier = PathUtility::getRelativePath(PATH_site,
> PathUtility::dirname($targetFile)) . PathUtility::basename($targetFile);
>
> /** @var \TYPO3\CMS\Core\Resource\File $fileObject */
> $fileObject =
> ResourceFactory::getInstance()->retrieveFileOrFolderObject($identifier);
> $newRecordId = $fileObject->getUid();
>
> The file is now known in FAL and we have the UID of the FAL record for
> further use.
>
> If you want to add it as an image to a text w/image content element and
> it's a new content element you can use something like:
>
> $recordData = array(
>    // page to place content element
>    'pid' => 55,
>    'colPos' => 2,
>    'title' => 'title of content',
>    'bodytext' => 'text of content element',
>    // $newRecordId see earlier snippet
>    'image' => $newRecordId;
> );
> $newElementIdMarker = uniqid('NEW');
> $dataMap = array(
>    'tt_content' => array(
>      $newElementIdMarker => $recordData
>    ),
> );
> /** @var \TYPO3\CMS\Core\DataHandling\DataHandler $tce */
> $tce =
> GeneralUtility::makeInstance('\\TYPO3\\CMS\\Core\\DataHandling\\DataHandler');
>
> $tce->start($data, array());
> $tce->process_datamap();
> $newContenElementId = $tce->substNEWwithIDs[$newElementIdMarker];
>
> For more information on what you can do with DataHandler (in 4.x known
> as TCEmain) see:
> - http://blog.tolleiv.de/2010/03/handling-data-in-typo3-with-tcemain/
> -
> http://docs.typo3.org/typo3cms/CoreApiReference/ApiOverview/Typo3CoreEngine/Index.html
> and following pages.
>
> At first DataHandler seems a bit awkward or complicated, but you'll save
> yourself a lot of work and trouble by using it. DataHandler will
> automatically fill / update fields like crdata, tstamp; it will
> automatically create the records in the intermediate tables (mm-tables,
> file references) based on the definitions in TCA (you give it a comma
> separated list of UIDs); it will log operations in system log, history
> tables; extensions which hook into DataHandler (e.g. EXT:solr) will be
> notified of content changes and can take actions; caches are cleared
> when needed and so on.
>
> If you need to store HTML formatted content in an RTE field you need
> some further code to prepare it as if an editor has entered it in the
> backend.
>
> Good luck with your import!
>