[TYPO3] Help understanding TYPO3

Fri Oct 12 14:58:11 CEST 2007

Ok,

I've since discouvered that the | appearing were created in the CSS. Now my
menu appears but without a spacer.

How do I add a spacer?

Also I still need help with why the page order is reversed.

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Stephen Bungert
Gesendet: Freitag, 12. Oktober 2007 14:30
An: typo3-english at lists.netfielders.de
Betreff: [TYPO3] Help understanding TYPO3

Hello,

In my template I have a naviagtion menu made out of an UL and LI elements.

// *** START CODE ***

<ul id="utilities">
  <li class="topMenu_unselected"><a href="#">Item 1</a></li>
  <li class="topMenu_unselected"><a href="#">Item 2</a></li>
  <li class="topMenu_unselected"><a href="#">Item 3</a></li>
  <li class="topMenu_unselected"><a href="#">Item 4</a></li>
  <li class="topMenu_unselected"><a href="#">Item 5</a></li>
</ul>

// *** END CODE ***

After about FOUR hours of going through the tutorials

I managed to actually get the dummy navigation text replaced with the names
of the pages I want in the navigation bar.

Here's the code in the setup part of the template

// *** START CODE ***

# Configuring the Auto-Parser for main template:
plugin.tx_automaketemplate_pi1 {

  # Read the template file:
  content = FILE
  content.file = fileadmin/templates/metrinomics/metrinomics_core.html

  # Here we define which elements in the HTML that
  # should be wrapped in subpart-comments:
  elements {

    BODY.all = 1
    BODY.all.subpartMarker = DOCUMENT_BODY

    HEAD.all = 1
    HEAD.all.subpartMarker = DOCUMENT_HEADER
    HEAD.rmTagSections = title

    LI.all = 1

  }

  # Prefix all relative paths with this value:
  relPathPrefix = fileadmin/templates/metrinomics/

}

# Menu 1 cObject
temp.menuTop = HMENU
temp.menuTop.maxItems = 5

# First level menu-object, textual
temp.menuTop.1 = TMENU
temp.menuTop.1 {

  # Normal state properties
  NO.allWrap = <li class="topMenu_unselected"> | </li>

  # Enable active state and set properties:
  ACT = 1
  ACT.allWrap = <li class="topMenu_selected"> | </li>

}

# Main TEMPLATE cObject for the BODY
temp.mainTemplate = TEMPLATE
temp.mainTemplate {

  # Feeding the content from the Auto-parser to the TEMPLATE cObject:
  template =< plugin.tx_automaketemplate_pi1

  # Select only the content between the <body>-tags
  workOnSubpart = DOCUMENT_BODY

  # Substitute the ###menu_1### subpart with some example content:
  subparts.utilities < temp.menuTop

  # Substitute the ###content### subpart with some example content:
  subparts.content = TEXT
  subparts.content.value = HELLO WORLD - CONTENT

}

# Main TEMPLATE cObject for the HEAD

temp.headTemplate = TEMPLATE
temp.headTemplate {

  # Feeding the content from the Auto-parser to the TEMPLATE cObject:
  template =< plugin.tx_automaketemplate_pi1

  # Select only the content between the <head>-tags
  workOnSubpart = DOCUMENT_HEADER

}

# Default PAGE object:
page = PAGE
page.typeNum = 0

# Copying the content from TEMPLATE for <body>-section:
page.10 < temp.mainTemplate

# Copying the content from TEMPLATE for <head>-section:
page.headerData.10  < temp.headTemplate

// *** END CODE ***

This is what the menu is rendered as:

| Unternehmen | Jobs | News | Suche | Kontakt |

There are two problems with this:

1: I don' want the | at the start or the end, just in between the items
2: The actual order of the pages is

Kontakt
Suche
News
Jobs
Unternehmen

TYPO3 seems to have reversed the order of the pages. How can I correct this?
Why has it done this?

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