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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!

See also

Read Application Context for more information on how to set the application context.

Read YAML API for more information on YAML parsing.

The following variables and functions are available in addition to the default Symfony functionality:

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