[Typo3] Generating output from an extension/DB using templates

[christian oettinger]

It's rather impossible to help you out, for we don't see nothing of your 
code, but I'll talk a bit in general: It all depends how you created 
your extension.

If you kickstarted it, you get a complete running framework. In 
extension kicksarter you can (and have to) create a Frontend-plugin for 
putting out code in the frontend. The code for this plugin is then 
written by kickstarter in the folder pi1.


As an example:

Say you called your extension "management" and you created it wiht 
kickstarter. You set up general info, at least one database table with 
at least one field, and at least one Frontend-Plugin.

you get a folder "management" in folder ext in folder typo3conf 
(usually, i.e. when you installed locally not globally)

insisde you have:

ext_tables.sql to set tables and fields for the mysql-Databse
tca.php to configure your database tables and fields inside typo3
ext_tables.php to further configure your tables for typo3
ext.localconf.php for adding TSonfig
locallang.php and locallang_db.php for naming your tables and fields (in 
different languages if you like)

and the folder pi1
this folder contians everything you need for your plugin that controls 
the output in FE:

class.management_pi1.php: the file that controls what happens
locallang.php (see above, but for your plugin)
folder static for TS-Code for the Plugin


If you don't have kickstarted your extension or if you don't have this 
setup I can't really help, I don't know the step by step for creating an 
extension without kickstarter. But this surely is Pro-work, so I would 
suggest that you use kickstarter wizard to create a second extension and 
just compare code.

(And there are some quite good documentation for kickstarter wizard in 
the documentation->video section on typo3.org)

greetings from munich

oe (christian)



Marcel Douwstra wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've started building an extension to perform a certain task for me.
> I can insert records through the admin and all that, works like a charm.
> But when it comes to the frontend I run into problems.. I've created a 
> table and can use it with the correct setup, I can also call the 
> extension so output goes to the frontend.
> However I can not grasp how to the following things :
> 
> - Fill parts in the template through my extension PHP file (filling it 
> through the template setup is no prob)
> - Get the DB content off my extension available in the extension PHP file.
> 
> Is there some kind of document we've overlooked? Or amd I just missing a 
> crucial point somewhere..
> 
> In short: please help me out here :)
> 
> http://typo3.tros.nl/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28
> 
> Thanx,
> 
> Marcel
> 
>