[TYPO3-dev] My first (for me) advanced extension

[Andreas Förthner]

Wolfgang Klinger schrieb:
>  *hiya!*
> 
>  On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Brian Bendtsen wrote the following:
> 
>>> > - Do I place this function in the class_myextension_pi1.php file or
>>> > do I have to create another?
>>>
>>>
>>>You don't have to put it in class.myextension_pi1.php but that would be 
>>>the most obvious thing to do (not sure I understand this question).
>>
>>Thank you, that was very helpfull.
>>
>>About that question. I have my form now and Im not sure what to put in 
>>the action attribute. Im pretty sure that I just call 
>>class_myextension_pi1.php, but what parameters is needed to tell the 
>>script to go to the function that will write something to my database table.
> 
> 
>  (1) use the Smarty template engine, believe me this is the best way to
>  do templating, don't even start with this TYPO3 templating stuff
>     http://smarty.php.net/
>     http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/search/smarty/1.0.2/
> 
>  (2) e.g.
> ----
> $action = t3lib_div::linkThisScript(Array());
> ----
>  or use the link methods in tslib_pibase (take a look at that class).
> 
>  and use something like:
> ----
> <input type="hidden" name="tx_myext_pi1[action]" value="save" />
> ----
>  you can access this value with
> ----
> $this->piVars['action']
> ----
>  in your plugin.
> 
>  (3)
>  You can use the pi1 method as "controller" and delegate to other classes
>  as well, simply include them with
> ----
> require_once(t3lib_extMgm::extPath('tx_myext').'lib/my_special_class.php');
> ----
> 
>  
>  HTH, if not don't hesitate to ask again.
> 
> 
>  bye
>  Wolfgang
> 
Hi,

as I see now, I forgot the namespace part in the form's name attribute. 
Sorry for that, just do like Wolfgang descriped it.

But sorry Wolfgang, what's the problem about TYPO3's templating?

Regards

Andreas