Feature: #97013 - New TCA type "email"

Description

Especially TCA type input has a wide range of use cases, depending on the configured renderType and the eval options. Determination of the semantic meaning is therefore usually quite hard and often leads to duplicated checks and evaluations in custom extension code.

In our effort of introducing dedicated TCA types for all those use cases, the TCA type email has been introduced. It replaces the eval=email option of TCA type input.

The TCA type email features the following column configuration:

autocomplete
behaviour: allowLanguageSynchronization
default
eval: unique and uniqueInPid
fieldControl
fieldInformation
fieldWizard
mode
nullable
placeholder
readOnly
required
search
size

Note

The soft reference definition softref=>email[subst] is automatically applied to all email fields.

The following column configuration can be overwritten by page TSconfig:

readOnly
size

The migration from eval='email' to type=email is done like following:

// Before

'email_field' => [
    'label' => 'Email',
    'config' => [
        'type' => 'input',
        'eval' => 'trim,email',
        'max' => 255,
    ]
]

// After

'email_field' => [
    'label' => 'Email',
    'config' => [
        'type' => 'email',
    ]
]

An automatic TCA migration is performed on the fly, migrating all occurrences to the new TCA type and triggering a PHP E_USER_DEPRECATED error where code adoption has to take place.

Note

The value of TCA type email columns is automatically trimmed before being stored in the database. Therefore, the eval=trim option is no longer needed and should be removed from the TCA configuration.

Impact

It's now possible to simplify the TCA configuration by using the new dedicated TCA type email.