[TYPO3] TCEforms: dynamic column label in TCA?

marcel.gsteiger at milprog.ch marcel.gsteiger at milprog.ch
Mon Apr 24 21:43:36 CEST 2006


Franz Holzinger schrieb:
> Hello Marcel,
> 
>>I'm new to typo3 programming and have just built my first extension that
>> allows to manage a simple table using TCEforms in 3 languages (german,
>>french, italian).
>>
>>I have a table with a type field and several additional fields. The
>>additional fields only appear after the user has entered the type field
>>and updated its form. This works nicely using TCA configuration. My
>>backend users add records to this table using TCEforms.
>>
>>The content in the additional fields always has the same meaning, but
>>depending on the value in the type field, I would like to have TCEforms
>>attach a label with a slightly different text.
>>
>>I wanted to try something like adding in tca.php an assignment
>>
>>$TCA["mytable"]["columns"]["mycolumn"]["label"]="LLL:EXT:myext/locallang_db.php:tx_myext_mytable.mycolumn_".$value_of_type_field
>>
>>
>>...and then add these different labels in locallang_db.php, but I don't
>>know how I could get at the $value_of_the_type_field within tca.php.
>>
>>Any help on how to accomplish this would much be appreciated.
>>
> 
> 
> have a look at the Dynaflex extension from Thomas Hempel. You can
> accomplish this with his extension.
> 
> 
> Greets,
> 
> Franz
> 
> 

thanks a lot, this looks very good. I will try that out.

Regards
--Marcel



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