[TYPO3] complex page content select

Tyler Kraft headhunterxiii at yahoo.ca
Fri Jul 28 12:44:11 CEST 2006


Sorry to re-ask but....

Any gurus out there who even know if this is possible - I ask because I 
have a grumpy client and I want to know if I need to start writing PHP...



Tyler Kraft wrote:
> A question on if this is possible...
> 
> We have added a field to a table in chc_forum. What it is for is so that 
> the client can browse to a page that they want to be associated with a 
> individual specific discussion on the page when that discussion is 
> viewed. In the new table field we store the uid of a page in the cms 
> that they have browsed to. So through the BE they can select the page 
> and it all gets saved to the table and that is all good and works.
> 
> Now as forums and discussions are displayed using a get variable, we 
> would like to use this same get variable to pull out of our new field 
> the id of the page associated with that specific forum/discussion, and 
> use it in a select statement to get the left hand content form the page 
> they have selected, and display it on the page. We need this as all 
> discussions are displayed on the same page.
> 
> So we have the get variable cat_uid=12 which corresponds to a specific 
> discussion. In discussion 12 they have chosen the page 859.  Using this 
> cat_uid we want to pull out the id of a page that is saved in our new 
> field and get the content for the left hand column of page 859.
> 
> Hopefully this all makes sense.
> 
> Can this be done using typoscript, and how do I write my content item 
> and select?
> 
> 
> 



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