[TYPO3-english] How do you generate a menu where every menu item has its own image, using DAM?

[Oliver Salzburg]

On 2012-07-11 23:05, François Suter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> My earlier attempts all gave similar results. There is simply no uid
>> passed into it, so it defaults to the current page id:(
> 
> I took a bit of time to reproduce locally the setup I had at the time I
> used this and it's not working for me either anymore.
> 
> Toying a bit further I remembered using a function straight from the DAM
> for this. And indeed it can work, but only if you have a single file
> referenced. Try using:
> 
> NO.before.cObject.file.import.cObject = USER
> NO.before.cObject.file.import.cObject {
>     userFunc = tx_dam_tsfe->fetchFileList
>     refTable = pages
>     refField = tx_dampages_files
> }
> 
> If you have several files, the DAM method will return them in a single
> string, comma-separated. So it's still probably possible to work it out,
> by working some more TS magic using split in a further stdWrap.
> 
> HTH
> 

Wow. I'm amazed.
Initially, I forgot to keep the

    NO.before.cObject = IMAGE

in the code, so it didn't work. And I was already writing up my
response, but wanted to give it another look :D

It works perfectly from what I can tell. But the fact that I don't
really understand why this one works and why my previous approach just
won't, makes me wonder where my misunderstanding of TYPO3 menus is
buried.

Thanks!
Oliver