Configuring the behavior of the extension¶

Not all organizations are to be displayed in our example extensions, but just the ones belonging to a certain status (like e.g. internal, external, non-member). In the TypoScript template of our page we therefore establish an option allowedStates under the path tx_sjroffers.settings:

plugin.tx_sjroffers {
    settings {
        allowedStates = 1,2
    }
}

Extbase makes the settings inside of the path plugin.tx_sjroffers.settings available as an array in the class variable $this->settings. Our Action thus looks like this:

public function indexAction()
{
    $this->view->assign(
        'organizations',
        $this->organizationRepository->findByStates(
            \TYPO3\CMS\Core\Utility\GeneralUtility::intExplode(',', $this->settings['allowedStates'])
        )
    );

    // ...
}

In the OrganizationRepository, we implemented a Method findByStates(), which we do not further investigate here (see more in chapter 6, section “Implement individual database queries”). The Method expects an array containing the allowed states. We generate it from the comma separated list using the TYPO3 API function \TYPO3\CMS\Core\Utility\GeneralUtility::intExplode(). We then pass on the returned choice of organizations to the view, just as we are used to do.