[TYPO3-english] retrieve IDs of content items in FCE?

[Erich Specht]

That did the trick!  Thanks!

On Nov 11, 2012, at 3:01 PM, Torsten Schrade <schradt at uni-mainz.de> wrote:

> Hello again Erich,
> 
>> Thank you for the reply, Torsten.  The problem with that solution is that
>> each time a user copies a page with the FCE on it, I believe the copy will
>> have a new ID so the typoscript won't be looking at the new copy of the FCE.
>> 
>> Is there another way to access the IDs of content items within an FCE on a
>> page - perhaps by field name rather than ID of the FCE?
> 
> No problem, you can make use of the stdWrap capabilities of XPATH's
> source property and retrieve the FCE id dynamically with a CONTENT cObject:
> 
> page.10 = XPATH
> page.10 {
> 
>  # fetch XML field from FCE on current page
>  source.cObject = CONTENT
>  source.cObject {
>    table = tt_content
>    select {
>      where = CType='templavoila_pi1'
>      andWhere = tx_templavoila_ds=###FCE_DS_ID###
>      max = 1
>      selectFields = tx_templavoila_flex
>    }
>    renderObj = TEXT
>    renderObj.field = tx_templavoila_flex
>  }
> 
>  # set expression and return format
>  expression = //field[@index="###YOUR_FIELDNAME###"]/value
>  return = string
> 
>  # result object from XPATH query
>  resultObj {
>    cObjNum = 1
>    1.current = 1
>  }
> }
> 
> Since the scope of the CONTENT cObject is always the current page (if
> not set otherwise with pidInList) you always get the first FCE on your
> (copied) pages. The andWhere part above is optional but helps in
> narrowing down the possible results to a specific FCE type. If that is
> not enough, try to find the FCE type you are targeting with phpMyAdmin
> in the table tt_content and check which fields you could use in your
> specific setup to only select FCEs you want.
> 
> Cheers,
> Torsten
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