[TYPO3-ttnews] Make ext:news detail view show most recent item when no id given

[Loek Hilgersom]

On 10-09-12 08:50, Georg Ringer wrote:
 > Hi,
 >
 > got a working example? wanna add it here or in the wiki? would be great

Hi Georg,

I only found time to try it out just now, so good timing
I got it working like this, but there must be a thousand ways to do this, maybe 
it can be done even easier.

What I did:

Add a Typoscript setting:
plugin.tx_news.settings.detailLatest = 1
Setting this makes the list view show the detail template instead.


Add this to the Templates/News/List.html template:

<f:section name="content">
<f:if condition="{settings.detailLatest}">
     <f:then>
         <f:for each="{news}" as="newsItem">
             <f:render partial="Detail/Item" arguments="{newsItem:newsItem, 
settings:settings}"/>
         </f:for>
     </f:then>
     <f:else>
         ... here goes the normal list template ...
     </f:else>
</f:if>
</f:section>


Then move the entire Templates/News/Detail.html template to 
Partials/Detail/Item.html and include this as a partial in 
Templates/News/Detail.html


Finally, I included the plugin through Typoscript, the detail view, and the 
latest detail view if no news_id is given in the URL:


[globalVar = TSFE:id = {$pages.home}]
     lib.content.main < tt_content.list.20.news_pi1
     lib.content.main {
         switchableControllerActions {
             News {
                 1 = list
             }
         }
         settings < plugin.tx_news.settings
         settings {
             detailLatest = 1
             limit = 1
         }
     }
[else]
     lib.content.main < styles.content.get
     lib.content.main.select.where = colPos=0
[globalVar = GP:tx_news_pi1|news= ] && [globalVar = TSFE:id = {$pages.home}]
     lib.content.main < tt_content.list.20.news_pi1
     lib.content.main {
         switchableControllerActions {
             News {
                 1 = list
             }
         }
         settings < plugin.tx_news.settings
         settings {
             detailLatest = 1
             limit = 1
         }
     }
[end]


It works. Not really complicated, but still, could be easier. Especially having 
to use the list view for showing a detail view is a bit peculiar.
Cheers,
Loek