[TYPO3] configuring a plugin via backend

Christopher Torgalson bedlamhotel at gmail.com
Fri Apr 25 16:21:55 CEST 2008


On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Antonio Reher <areher at sonoratec.biz> wrote:
> any ideas?

Yes: use the kickstarter extension--though you may want to search the
dev list first to find out a bit about its various imperfections. In
general though, it's a very useful tool and can make setting up
extensions and plugins much quicker.

>  Antonio Reher wrote:
>  > Hi:
>  > I'm sure there is an answer somewhere, but I've searched and searched
>  > and don't really know where to start.
>  >
>  > I'm developing a front-end plugin for a website which displays an
>  > introductory text and a list of elements. My problem is that the only
>  > way I know of specifying the intro text from the BE is via TS...
>  >
>  > plugin.tx_myExt_pi1.introtext=lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum
>  > and then, in php, rendering $conf['introtext']
>  >
>  > The problem is this is not the most intuitive way of doing it for a
>  > basic user and I think it would be better to just have an RTE field in
>  > the plugin editing screen where they can input whatever text they want.
>  >
>  > I think there is a way of doing this via FlexForms, but I'm not sure I'm
>  > ready to use them yet... is there any way of doing this?
>  >
>  > Can anyone help me?


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