Base Variants¶

In Site Handling base variants represent different bases for a web site depending on a specified condition. For example a "live" base URL might be https://example.org but on local machine it's https://example.localhost as a domain - that's when variants are used.

Base variants exist for languages, too. Currently these can only be defined through the respective *.yml file, there is no UI available yet.

Variants consist of two parts:

a base to use for this variant
a condition that decides when this variant shall be active

Conditions are based on Symfony Expression Language and allow flexible conditions. For example:

applicationContext == "Development"

would define a base variant to use in Development context.

Note

Notice that environment variables can be used in the base via %env(...)%. condition needs getenv(...) instead.

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A configured base variant for development context.¶

Hint

For those coming from earlier TYPO3 versions: With site handling, there is no need for sys_domain records anymore!

Example¶

rootPageId: 1
base: 'https://example.org/'
baseVariants:
  -
    base: 'https://example.localhost/'
    condition: 'applicationContext == "Development"'
  -
    base: 'https://staging.example.org/'
    condition: 'applicationContext == "Production/Sydney"'
  -
    base: 'https://testing.example.org/'
    condition: 'applicationContext == "Testing/Paris"'
languages:
  -
    title: 'Global'
    enabled: true
    languageId: '0'
    base: /
    typo3Language: default
    locale: en_UK.UTF-8
    iso-639-1: en
    navigationTitle: English
    hreflang: gb-en
    direction: ''
    flag: gb
  -
    title: 'DE'
    enabled: true
    languageId: '1'
    base: https://example.de/'
    baseVariants:
      -
        base: 'https://de.example.localhost/'
        condition: 'applicationContext == "Development"'
      -
        base: 'https://staging.example.de/'
        condition: 'applicationContext == "Production/Sydney"'
      -
        base: 'https://testing.example.de/'
        condition: 'applicationContext == "Testing/Paris"'
    typo3Language: de
    locale: de_DE.UTF-8
    iso-639-1: de
    navigationTitle: Deutsch
    hreflang: de-de
    direction: ''
    fallbackType: strict
    flag: de

Properties¶

typo3.version¶

Datatype: string
Description: The current TYPO3 version
Example: 11.5.0

typo3.branch¶

Datatype: string
Description: The current TYPO3 branch
Example: 11.5

typo3.devIpMask¶

Datatype: string
Description: The configured devIpMask taken from $GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['SYS']['devIPmask']
Example: 77.176.160.*

applicationContext¶

Datatype: string
Description: The current application context
Example: Development

Functions¶

All functions from TYPO3s DefaultFunctionsProvider are available:

ip¶

Datatype: string
Description: Match an IP address, value or regex, wildcards possible. Special value: devIp for matching devIpMask.
Example: ip("77.176.160.*")

compatVersion¶

Datatype: string
Description: Match a TYPO3 version
Example: compatVersion("11.5.0"), compatVersion("11.4")

like¶

Datatype: string
Description: Comparison function to compare two strings. The first parameter is the "haystack", the second the "needle". Wildcards are allowed.
Example: like("foobarbaz", "*bar*")

getenv¶

Datatype: string
Description: Wrapper for PHPs getenv() function. Allows accessing environment variables.
Example: getenv("TYPO3_BASE_URL")

date¶

Datatype: string
Description: Get the current date in given format.
Example for checking the current month: date("j") == 7

feature¶

Datatype: string
Description: Check whether a feature ("feature toggle") is enabled in TYPO3.
Example: feature("TypoScript.strictSyntax")

traverse¶

Datatype: array and string
Description: This function has two parameters: - first parameter is the array to traverse - second parameter is the path to traverse Syntax.
Example: traverse(request.getQueryParams(), 'tx_news_pi1/news') > 0