[TYPO3] Recently Updated list customization

[Xavier Perseguers]

I finally found a way to achieve my goal.

I post the solution here as I read that I am not the only person trying to get a rootline for an arbitrary page and not the current one.

HTH others...

Xavier Perseguers


> I customized the standard recently updated list of pages and I'm
> trying 
> to achieving this output:
> 
> - <date> : <title of page>
>    Localisation : <breadcrumb leading to the page>
> 
> - <date> : <title of page>
>    Localisation : <breadcrumb leading to the page>
> 
> ...
> 
> I manage the layout with CSS as the output is done using <ul></ul> and
> items are enclosed within <li> tags.

TS to modify the behaviour of standard menu/recently updated plugin:

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	## Customize the list of page recently updated
page.includeLibs.menustuff = fileadmin/menuFunc.inc
tt_content.menu.20.5 {
	excludeUidList = current
		# number of items to show + number of uid in excludeUidList
	special.limit = 11
	wrap = <ul id="recentlyUpdated">|</ul>
	1.noBlur = 1
	1.NO {
		stdWrap.field = subtitle // title
		ATagTitle.field = description // subtitle // title

			## Prepend the date
		before.field = SYS_LASTCHANGED
		before.strftime = %d.%m.%Y
		before.wrap = <div class="date">|&nbsp;:</div>&nbsp;

		after.cObject = USER
		after.cObject {
			userFunc = user_menuFunc->rootline

			range = 1 | -2
			field = nav_title // title
			wrap = <div class="breadcrumb">Localisation&nbsp;:&nbsp;|</div>
		}
	}
}
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PHP function (fileadmin/menuFunc.inc):

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<?php
class user_menuFunc {
		// The backReference to the mother cObj object set at call time 
	var $cObj;
	
	/** 
	 * Call it from a USER cObject with 'userFunc = user_menuFunc->rootline' 
	 */ 
	function rootline($content, $conf) {
			// Debug informations
		//t3lib_div::debug($this->cObj->data);
		//t3lib_div::debug($conf);
		
			// Retrieve the UID of the updated page
		$uid = $this->cObj->data['uid'];
			// Get its rootline
		$GLOBALS['TSFE']->sys_page = t3lib_div::makeInstance('t3lib_pageSelect');
		$rootline = $GLOBALS['TSFE']->sys_page->getRootLine($uid,'');
		//t3lib_div::debug($rootline);

		$begin_end = explode('|', $this->conf['range']);
		if (!t3lib_div::testInt($begin_end[0])) {intval($begin_end[0]);}
		if (!t3lib_div::testInt($begin_end[1])) {$begin_end[1]=-1;}

		$field = $conf['field'];
		$field = $field ? $field : 'title';
		$content = '';
		
		$upper_limit = min(count($rootline), count($rootline) + $begin_end[1]);
		for ($i = $begin_end[0]; $i < $upper_limit; $i++) {
			$rootline_item = $rootline[$i];
		
			$page_uid = $rootline_item['uid'];
			$title_fields = explode('//', $field);
				// Find the title field to be used
			foreach ($title_fields as $f) {
			    $f = trim($f);
			    if ($rootline_item[$f]) break;
			}

			if ($content) $content .= ' / ';
			$link = tslib_pibase::pi_linkToPage ($rootline_item[$f], $page_uid);
			$content .= $link;
		}
   
			// Return the wrapped rootline
		$wrap = $conf['wrap'];
		return str_replace('|', $content, $wrap);
	}
}
?>
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See it in action: http://xavier.perseguers.ch/accueil/mises-a-jour-recentes.html