[TYPO3-english] css_styled_content -> different behaviour depending on include techique

[Christian Ruppert]

Hi,
I am doing spring-cleaning in my typo3 installations, and discovered a 
very strange behaviour.
As you (hopefully) all know, there are two ways to include static 
templates in typo3.
I will use a simple extensions as example:


0) Install extension

A) Include basic extension templates in root template with INCLUDES -- 
Include static (listbox)

B) The manual way, which is a import command used in typoscript.

I prefer the manual way, I always copy the basic setup and constants 
template of an extension to a dedicated folder, include them with a line 
similar to these two in my stylesheet:

<INCLUDE_TYPOSCRIPT: source="FILE: 
fileadmin/typoscript_ext/air_filemanger/030_minimal_root_setup.ts">

Now this works perfectly for nearly everything. I have a cascaded 
structure, all things work fine, except:

CSS_STYLED_CONTENT...

It behaves different when importing it via listbox or via typoscript 
command. How can this be? And its not that it is not working, it is 
working "half way". Meaning, if I miss the constants inclusion, the 
headlines are not formatted correctly. If I include setup and constants, 
then normal content looks ok (simple text element with heading), but 
"plugins" and other special elements are not rendered. Like a simple 
menu or sitemap.

If you want to try to reproduce the error, or understand what I mean, do 
the following. Create a simple site, with a even more simpler template. 
Setup of the template is just:

Put this in a file named setup
-------------------------------------------------------------
page = PAGE
page {
 typeNum = 0
 admPanelStyles = 1
 config {
   stat_mysql = 1
   sys_language_uid = 0
   language = en
   locale_all = en_EN
   cache = 1
   no_cache = 0
   doctype = xhtml_trans
   xhtml_cleaning = all
   index_enable = 1
   metaCharset = utf-8
   additionalHeaders = Content-Type:text/html;charset=utf-8
 }
}

page.50 = HTML
page.50.value =  testsite
page.100 = COA
page.100 < styles.content.get
page.100.select.where = colPos = 0

------------------------------------------------------------
Create a new template and include the file above in the setup field
<INCLUDE_TYPOSCRIPT: source="FILE: fileadmin/root_setup.ts">

Now include the css_styled content in the listbox of this new template.
Look at your page, create a text box and a login-box. Everything works 
nice!!!

NOW, remove the css_styled_content from the template, and include it via 
import line:

<INCLUDE_TYPOSCRIPT: source="FILE: fileadmin/css_styled_content_setup.ts">
<INCLUDE_TYPOSCRIPT: source="FILE: 
fileadmin/css_styled_content_constants.ts">

(Seperately, in setup and constants, of course - no newbie errors here)

NOW, take a look at your site: The text elements still look nice, but 
the sophisticated elements are gone.
This must be because of some kind of "order" in how typo3 parses all 
this stuff, but I wasn't able to figure out what the problem might be.

If anyone has any ideas, please enlighten me. I am particually worried, 
because I include all extensions this way (via static lines inside 
external configuration files). My database template is basically only an 
import of two files setup.ts and constants.ts, and all the work is done 
there. Except the css_styled_content...  So if there is any "problem" 
with this way, I am eager to know..

Christian

PS: And for everybody who read to this point and is new to the topic, 
some little candy beside:
Always include these two options in your user tsconfig. Then you can 
edit your ts files with a pretty nice editor (like sweets) and just 
press refresh in your browser.. Works like a charm:

admPanel.override.tsdebug.forceTemplateParsing = 1
options.alertPopups = 252


Oh, and if you want to, include these lines in your typo3 core (fixes on 
your own risk)
\t3lib\class.t3lib_tsparser.php

Line 530
 if (@is_file($filename) && filesize($filename)<100000)    {    // Max. 
100 KB include files!
          // check for includes in included text
          $included_text = 
self::checkIncludeLines(t3lib_div::getUrl($filename),$cycle_counter+1);
         $newString.= $included_text.chr(10);
      }
     else
       {
          // ruppertchristian featureimplement
          die("Typoscript file not found " . $filename);
     }