[TYPO3-project-formidable] Newby question

[Albert van der Veen]

Hi Jerome,

You're welcome, thanks for clarifying things :)

Disadvantage of the method you're proposing below (as far as I can see), 
is that you won't be able to use all the powerful features in the xml 
config. For instance I'm using the code below to show a box on button 
click.
So, for the time being it's probably best to stick to using the edition 
mode and configuring the renderlets as readonly.

I hope to be able to dive into the Formidable code a little deeper in 
the near future, to see if I can contribute in any way. But am on a very 
tight schedule at the moment...

Thanks for your help!

grtz,
Albert


		<!-- Abstract button + box begin-->
		<renderlet:BUTTON name="btn_abstract" label="View Abstract">
			<onclick runat="client">
				<userobj>
					<php><![CDATA[
				
					return array(
						$this->aORenderlets["box_abstract"]->majixFx("toggleBlind"),
						$this->aORenderlets["box_abstract"]->majixFx("scrollTo"),
					);

					]]></php>
				</userobj>
			</onclick>
		</renderlet:BUTTON>
		<renderlet:BOX mode="div" name="box_abstract"  style="display: none;">
			<childs>
				<renderlet:TEXTAREA name="abstract" label="Abstract" readonly="true" />
			</childs>
		</renderlet:BOX>
		<!-- Abstract button + box end-->


Jerome Schneider wrote:
> Hi Albert,
> Thanks for the feedback :)
> 
> You're right when saying that it's not optimal to use datahandler:DB 
> with all rdt's readonly to display a record.
> 
> I also agree that the best way would be to improve the data layer, 
> adding the ability to bind a box to a datasource, to create a local 
> "data-context" if you see what I mean.
> 
> We thought about this already, but nothing came out for the moment.
> 
> something like:
> 
> <renderlet:BOX name="my-page-box">
>     <datasource use="page" />
>     <childs>
>         <renderlet:TEXT name="title" />
>         <renderlet:DATE name="crdate/>
>         <!-- ... -->
>     </childs>
> </renderlet:BOX>
> 
> 
> 
> For the moment, there's another way to achieve this, if you're using a 
> renderer:TEMPLATE; 2 steps:
> 
> 1 - manually fetch the row from the DB and pass it to the renderer:TEMPLATE
> 2 - Use the template syntax to access data and display it in the html
> 
> I put an example here:
> 
> http://formidable.typo3.ug/features/template-engine/inject-data-in-the-template.html 
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Jerome Schneider
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Albert van der Veen a écrit :
>> Thanks Jerome,
>>
>> That's how I had set it up, based on posts on this list, and works 
>> fine. It feels like 'misusing' the 'edition' method though. Now you 
>> have to have a datahandler:DB, although nothing is done with the data 
>> except displaying it.
>> It would make more sense to have something like the renderlet:LISTER, 
>> that doesn't need a datahandler, only a datasource. The readonly also 
>> wouldn't be necessary on each renderlet, as it would be assumed.
>>
>> As I said, I have just started using Formidable (and loving it 
>> already), so don't take this as a negative feedback, only wondering 
>> why it works like this...
>>
>> grtz,
>> Albert
>>
>> Jerome Schneider wrote:
>>> Hi Albert,
>>>
>>> You may use a datahandler:DB with tablename and keyname properly set.
>>>
>>> To edit a particular uid with this, you'll have to pass it as the 
>>> third argument of init() in your plugin code
>>>
>>> And renderlets should be set as readonly=true
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Jerome
>>>
>>>
>>>