[TYPO3] Accessing flexforms from backend module

[Dmitry Dulepov [typo3]]

Hi!

Steffen Gebert wrote:
> Is there any way to use flexforms in a backend module AND later access it's
> values in the same backend module?
> 
> We want to extend aux_newsmailer to enable user to select records, which
> should be sent and so have to select records in BE and read out (at
> sending), what was selected.
> 
> Because of it's a backend module, we can't access pibase::get_FFValue
> (right?) - so is there any solution or any better way to give user the
> ability to select multiple records out of a list (of tt_news records).

You can see how code in tslib_pibase works and do the same. Generally it means decoding xml to array and accessing array. But don't do a home made solution because there are several flexform formats. TYPO3 know them all and handle transparently for you. See tslib_pibase.

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Dmitry Dulepov
TYPO3 Core team
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