[TYPO3] TS for specific [news, or other] content elements

[Tyler Kraft]

Hi,

Prehaps I'm missing the idea here, but are globalVar and globalString 
not two different things? And if you want to test for a specific news 
record displaying  wouldn't you use tx_ttnews[tt_news]=401 and do 
something like

[globalVar = GP:tt_news=401]
or
[globalVar = GP:tx_ttnews|tt_news=401]

What exactly are you trying to do? (you don't really explain that here) 
Are you wanting to draw out one specific record and place it on one 
specific page (with out it being in the BE page content)? Can you please 
give a better description of what you want to achieve

Tyler

Kathryn Blair wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I want to be able to set separate TS for specific news content elements.
> I've seen some potential info inline for this, but not ones which made it
> clear to me how I could adapt them to what I wanted to do. 
> 
> What I REALLY want to do is use a condition to target a specific news
> elemenet based on its uid (in tt_content). I saw an example here: 
> 
> 
> [globalVar = TSFE:tt_content|uid = 37]
> plugin.tt_news._LOCAL_LANG.de.preAuthor = Autor:
> [global]
> 
> The reason this doesn't work (and should be taken off that site -- if I can
> figure out an alternate method I'll replace it) is because [globalString =
> TSFE:fe_user|user|username = test] is not basing it's true/falseness on the
> table fe_user, but the variables in the TSFE. I don't know a lot of PHP, but
> I went on an odyssey trying to figure this out and this is what I've got:
> 
> There is no tt_content variable for TSFE, but there is a cObj variable.
> (which I saw here:
> http://www.typo3-unleashed.net/typo3apidocs/typo3api_4.0.0/html/d8/d11/class
> _8tslib__fe_8php-source.html). cObj also has variables [sorry if my
> terminology is off], including $currentRecord, which "is set to the
> [table]:[uid] of the record delivered in the $data-array, if the cObjects
> CONTENT or RECORD is in operation. Note that $GLOBALS['TSFE']->currentRecord
> is set to an equal value but always indicating the latest record rendered."
> (http://www.typo3-unleashed.net/typo3apidocs/typo3api_4.0.0/html/da/d2c/clas
> stslib__cObj-members.html). Yay, you would think this would solve all of my
> problems!
> 
> Well, this ts does render the table:uid (in this case, because I just put
> the typoscript in a template, that was pages:uid-of-current-page):
> 
>     20 = TEXT
>     20.data = TSFE:cObj|currentRecord
>     20.wrap = TSFE=|<br />
> 
> but I can't seem to write a condition based on this that is successful in
> targeting the specific content object. Here's what I'm trying:
> 
> [globalString=TSFE:cObj|currentRecord=tt_content:1316]
> plugin.tt_news.templateFile=fileadmin/Arts_Co-op/templates/news_templates/ar
> ts-co-op-headlines.tmpl
> [global]
> 
> I know that
> plugin.tt_news.templateFile=fileadmin/Arts_Co-op/templates/news_templates/ar
> ts-co-op-headlines.tmpl is correct because I tried it with other conditions
> (TSFE:id=321). I know I can set template files on the tt_news content
> element page itself, but the tt_news manual says that it's better to do so
> via ts, and I was hoping that doing it via TS I wouldn't have to erase and
> reset the template every time I update the file. Also, I might need to set
> some other ts this way, and it seems like a logical thing to want to do,
> from my perspective. 
> 
> I'm sure either I just don't fully grasp how currentRecord is supposed to
> work (which would make me sad, unless someone knows a different way to do
> this), or I'm just doing something incorrectly. If there's some massively
> easier way to do this, please let me know -- although like I said I didn't
> think (or understand how) the other solutions I'd seen would work for me. 
> 
> Here's the ts I'm using to grab the tt_news element and stick it in my
> template:
> 
> dates.10=CONTENT
> dates.10.table = tt_content
> dates.10.select.pidInList=879
> dates.10.select.uidInList=1316
> dates.10.select.wrap = <div class="important-dates-employers"> | </div>
> 
> Thanks for any help in advance,
> 
> Kath
>