Working with collections

The \TYPO3\CMS\Core\Resource\ResourceFactory class provides a convenience method to retrieve a File Collection.

EXT:my_extension/Classes/CollectionExample.php 
<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace MyVendor\MyExtension;

use TYPO3\CMS\Core\Resource\ResourceFactory;

final class CollectionExample
{
    public function __construct(
        private readonly ResourceFactory $resourceFactory,
    ) {}

    public function doSomething(): void
    {
        // Get collection with uid 1
        $collection = $this->resourceFactory->getCollectionObject(1);

        // Load the contents of the collection
        $collection->loadContents();
    }
}
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In this example, we retrieve and load the content from the File Collection with a uid of "1". Any collection implements the \Iterator interface, which means that a collection can be looped over (once its content has been loaded). Thus, if the above code passed the $collection variable to a Fluid view, you could do the following:

<ul>
    <f:for each="{collection}" as="file">
        <li>{file.title}</li>
    </f:for>
</ul>
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