[TYPO3-dev] TypoScript constants get lowercased

[Francois Suter]

Hi all,

I am developing an extension where I need to access the template setup 
for the extension from the backend. I found code for this in this 
mailing list.

The extension uses some constants, like

plugin.myextension.someDefaultValue = SomeCamelCaseText

which are used in the default setup as

plugin.myextension.someValue = {$plugin.myextension.someDefaultValue}

When I look this up in the TypoScript Object browser, everything is 
fine, the "someValue" value is "SomeCamelCaseText".

But when I retrieve this value in the backend (by creating a 
t3lib_TStemplate object and assembling it following the page's 
rootline), I get the value as "somecamelcasetext". All lowercase.

Now if the value in defined in the setup of the template as

plugin.myextension.someValue = SomeCamelCaseText

I retrieve it with case intact.

Does anyone have an idea why my default setup would be converted to 
lowercase? This is quite embarrassing since this value is case-sensitive 
  (it is actually a URL).

Thanks for any hint

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Francois Suter
Cobweb Development Sarl