Introduction

The ['types'] system is powerful and allows differently shaped editing forms re-using fields, having own fields for specific forms and arranging fields differently on top of a single database table. The tt_content with all its different content elements is a good example on what can be done with ['types'].

The basic ['types'] structure looks like this:

'types' => [
    '0' => [
        'showitem' => 'aField, anotherField',
    ],
    'anotherType' => [
        'showitem' => 'aField, aDifferentField',
    ],
],

So, the basic array has a key field with type names (here '0', and 'anotherType'), with a series of possible properties each, most importantly the showitem property.