Introduction¶

The main purpose of the TCA language configuration is to simplify the TCA language configuration. It therefore supersedes the special=languages option of TCA columns with type=select.

Formerly foreign_table relations to the table sys_language had also been used. This became deprecated with the introduction of site configurations with TYPO3 v9.

This field type decouples the actually available site languages from the sys_language table.

This TCA type automatically displays all available languages for the current context (the corresponding site configuration) and also automatically adds the special -1 language (meaning all languages) for all record types, except pages.

In records on root level (pid=0) or on a page, outside of a site context, all languages from all site configurations are displayed in the new field.