[TYPO3] Basic questions- how do I put text from the fields into pages?

[Mike]

OK I actually do understand those concepts already, I've read the 
tutorials a hundred times now trying to figure this out.  What I 
don't understand is- how do I add more columns? Not just raw into the 
db, but into the interface so my client can edit them with the rich 
text editor?   And, when I do add more columns, how do I insert that 
data into the html?  If I invent a new column "topleft", I can't just 
call styles.content.gettopleft can I? That function doesn't exist.




At 10:14 AM 8/11/2006, you wrote:
> >>> Yea, I can do that, but then the text that get's filled into the
> >>> html is just hard coded in the template.   If my client wants to
> >>> change "Text added from typoscript template", they would have to go
> >>> in and change the typoscript code.  Isn't there supposed to be like
> >>> a form field the client can use to change the text on a page?
>
> > Ok that's excellent, but what if I have 20 pages, all identical using
> > the same template, but I want them to have different content.   If
> > the template is explicitly referring to the uid of that tt_content
> > record, like in the example you gave, then all the pages would all
> > have that same content, right?  How do I make each page use a
> > different $the_id_of_the_content_element.  Do I just have to hard
> > code that?
>
>Well, maybe you should try to understand the basic concept for content
>elements first.
>Usually you've got a page containing a set of different elements in
>different columns.
>The default columns are "left","normal","right","border" - but you don't
>have to stick with it, since you can add more columns and name alle the
>columns however you like.
>
>So you can have
>"topleft","middlecontent","belowmiddlecontent","wherever","andmore"
>
>The difference in the DB is a the value for colPos in the table tt_content.
>So when you want something from the "normal" column, the colPos has to be
>"0".
>Left => 1, Right => 2, Border => 3, YourNewColumn => 4 and so on.
>
>Whenever you do something like "styles.content.get" you are using a
>TypoScript element called CONTENT. Inside this CONTENT there is a select
>statement i.e. "where = colPos=0".
>This is the only difference between "styles.content.get" and
>"styles.content.getRight"
>getRight the select statement is: "where = colPos=2"
>
>And this is how you can fill as many different markers as you like with
>content coming from specific columns of the current page.
>When you got to another page, the content will be taken from the same
>columns but only the elements of this page will be shown , since the default
>for the select statement is using:
>"pidInList = this" - which means: Only use those elements that have the
>current page as the parent page.
>
>If you understand this concept you will get the rest very easily ...
>
>Joey
>
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