[TYPO3-mvc] Extension spread over several pages - best practice?

[Alex Bailey]

Am 5/6/10 12:02 PM, schrieb Stefan Wild:
> Hey,
>
> progress is made on my project thanks to your help. I have a more
> general question now. The extbase extension I am building is spread over
> several pages in the page-tree, with the navigation being built by
> regular TypoScript and only content filled in by the extension.
>
> What is the best approach in this case to tell the extension which
> controller/action to start based from which page it is called (I've seen
> some development with "switchableControllerAction" there!?). Also, based
> on this situation, how do I tell the linkViewHelper where to link? I
> know of the pageUid parameter, but hard-coding pageuids there doesn't
> seem to be a good solution.
>
> Best regards,
> Stefan

Ive worked on several "spread over pages" extensions and always went 
good with the switchablecontrolleractions in flexform. Goes something 
like this:

		<switchableControllerActions>
		<TCEforms>
		<label>*Yourlabel*</label>
		 <onChange>reload</onChange>
		  <config>
			<type>select</type>
			<items type="array">
			  <numIndex index="0" type="array">
				<numIndex index="0">Page1</numIndex>
				<numIndex index="1">
yourController->index;yourController->action2;yourController->action 3
                           </numIndex>
			  </numIndex>
			   <numIndex index="1" type="array">
				<numIndex index="0">Page1</numIndex>
				<numIndex index="1">
yourController->action2;yourController->index;yourController->action 3
                           </numIndex>
			</items>
			<maxitems>1</maxitems>
			<size>1</size>
		  </config>
		</TCEforms>
	  </switchableControllerActions>
	
You define a select in the flexform which contains the action you want 
to call on this page, the first action in the list is the one which will 
be called. (Important you have to define all actions you want to access 
on this page too for example: If you index links to a "addAction" you 
have to say myController->index; myController->add in the values)

Hope this helps you abit.

Best Regards

Alex