[TYPO3-dev] collaboration work & typoscript & svn

[Thomas "Thasmo" Deinhamer]

Sorry, forgot to specify the TYPO3 Version,
it's TYPO3 4.3.0b3, which has this strange behaviour!

Thomas "Thasmo" Deinhamer schrieb:
> Finally I implemented a way to automatically populate
> the 'layout' field with layouts based on the layouts
> defined in the directory hierarchy.
> 
> The directory structure e.g. is:
> 
> Layouts/
>     Default/
>         setup.txt
>         constants.txt
>     Home/
>         setup.txt
>         constants.txt
> 
> 
> The following entries will be available inside the
> layout field of every page:
> 
> * Default
> * Home
> 
> Besides this, a TS condition is put inside the global TS,
> which will include the setup.txt and constants.txt files of
> the chosen layout, on each page.
> 
> Unfortunately this is not working correctly:
> 
> [globalVar = TSFE:page|layout = 5]
> <INCLUDE_TYPOSCRIPT: source="FILE: 
> typo3conf/ext/EXTKEY/Resources/Private/TypoScript/Layouts/Home/setup.txt">
> [global]
> 
> It only works correctly if I'm not logged in to the backend. If I am 
> logged in to the backend, the condition won't take effect - only if I
> tick the condition-checkboxes under the object-browser tree.
> 
> Is this working as intended? Shouldn't the boxes at least be
> checked by default in the backend when logged in? No?
> 
> Thank you for help!
> 
> 
> Thomas "Thasmo" Deinhamer schrieb:
>> I played around with dynamic/automatic TS setup/constants
>> inclusion and created an extension which will iterate throu
>> a predefined directory recursivly, finding all 'setup.txt'
>> and 'constants.txt' files, and adding them via 'addStaticFile()'
>> to the 'static template' section in the backend.
>>
>> The directory structure looks like this:
>>
>> ext/EXTKEY/Configuration/TypoScript/:
>> Layouts
>>     Default
>>     Home
>> Pages
>>     Default
>>     Print
>>     XML
>> Setup
>>     Localization
>>     Adjustments
>> Views
>>     Sitemap
>>     News
>>     Contact
>>
>> Inside those directories I store the files 'setup.txt'
>> and 'constants.txt', which will then get included, and
>> displayed with this labels inside 'static templates':
>>
>>     "EXTKEY: Layouts › Default"
>>     "EXTKEY: Layouts › Home"
>>     "EXTKEY: Pages › Default"
>>     etc.
>>
>> It's also possible to include the text files
>> directly into 'Layouts' or 'Views', which will
>> create the following static template entries:
>>
>>     "EXTKEY: Layouts"
>>     "EXTKEY: Views"
>>
>> The stuff is kinda flexible this way, but I'm not sure
>> if I like this; I am used to template records inside
>> the backend - this solution seems a bit weird for me.
>>
>> Especially I don't like my 'static templates' beeing
>> totally "burried" under all the other static templates,
>> it's kinda 'hard work' to find my static templates in the list.
>>
>> Furthermore I'm thinking about a way to dynamically import
>> specific 'layout' static templates (if available), based on
>> the LAYOUT field of each page in the pagetree.
>>
>> Looking into this any time later...
>>
>> Greetings!
>>
>>
>> Krystian Szymukowicz schrieb:
>>> Michael Knoll wrote:
>>>> Krystian Szymukowicz schrieb:
>>>>>
>>>>> hi
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd like to ask you if you could share your experience of how do 
>>>>> you do  collaborative work on bigger TYPO3 projects where more than 
>>>>> one person do the changes.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Krystian,
>>>>
>>>> perhaps this article from Fabrizio Branca can help you a little:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.fabrizio-branca.de/fablog/post/why-typoscript-should-go-into-files.html 
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Many thanks for that Michael.
>>>
>>> I've spend whole weekend moving my default TYPO3 installation based 
>>> on sys_template records to the version based on files. I've put all 
>>> the typoscript in two extensions "base" and "local" (which Peter Russ 
>>> refered to). Lots of fun with finding the best defaults for so much 
>>> pieces.
>>>
>>> But I have it now. "Typoscript based on files", coago performance 
>>> boosted my new TYPO3 base installation.
>>>
>>> Thanks all for sharing their experience.
>>>
>>> I hope that after some months as my experience in this matter will 
>>> grow up with some projects, I will share my thoughts in some article.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> grtz
>>> Krystian Szymukowicz
>>>