[TYPO3-ttnews] customising news_category shortcut link

[Oliver Rowlands]

Hi Paul,

I am afraid you will not be able to do this without extending the 
tt_news category menu.

Have a look at the 'userDisplayCatmenuHook' tt_news hook and EXT:timtab 
for an example implementation.

Best regards,

Oliver

Paul Vetch wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Is there any way to customise the output for the category shortcut link 
> generated for ###NEWS_CATEGORY### when categoryMode is set to 2?  I need 
> to insert additional text *inside* the link, with the category title.  I 
> can only insert it around the link using categoryTitles_stdwrap / 
> categoryTitleItem_stdwrap, which is not what I want.
> 
> I know that the link is generated using pi_linkToPage() rather than 
> typolink, and I can see that the categoryTitleItem_stdwrap appears 
> around the link, so I don't see any way (other than an ugly hack in the 
> class) to do this nicely...  But maybe I'm not thinking laterally enough.
> 
> I guess something like a categoryLink TS property, or some functional 
> equivalent of aTagBeforeWrap from TMENU, is what I'm wishing for here 
> ;)  Is the code generating this link changing in tt_news v3?  This is 
> one of the very very few aspects of tt_news that doesn't seem to be 
> configurable from TS.
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> 

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