Simple data types¶

The values assigned to properties in TypoScript are often of a specific format. These formats are described in this chapter.

For example, if a value is defined as the type <tag>, HTML code has to be supplied. If it is of the type resource, it’s a reference to a file from the resource-field in the template. If the type is GraphicColor, a color-definition is expected and an HTML color code or comma-separated RGB-values have to be provided.

The following is a list of available data types, their usage, purpose and examples.

align¶

Data type:: align
Description:: Decides about alignment.
Examples:: left, center, right
Default:: left

boolean¶

Data type:

boolean

Description:

Possible values for boolean variables are 1 and 0 meaning TRUE and FALSE.

Everything else is evaluated to one of these values by PHP: Non-empty strings (except 0 [zero]) are treated as TRUE, empty strings are evaluated to FALSE.

Examples:

EXT:site_package/Configuration/TypoScript/setup.typoscript¶

dummy.enable = 0   # false, preferred notation
dummy.enable = 1   # true,  preferred notation
dummy.enable =     # false, because the value is empty

case¶

Data type:

case

Description:

Do a case conversion.

Possible values:

Value	Effect
`upper`	Convert all letters of the string to upper case
`lower`	Convert all letters of the string to lower case
`capitalize`	Uppercase the first character of each word in the string
`ucfirst`	Convert the first letter of the string to upper case
`lcfirst`	Convert the first letter of the string to lower case
`uppercamelcase`	Convert underscored `upper_camel_case` to `UpperCamelCase`
`lowercamelcase`	Convert underscored `lower_camel_case` to `lowerCamelCase`

Example:

Code:

EXT:site_package/Configuration/TypoScript/setup.typoscript¶

= TEXT
value = Hello world!
case = upper

Result:

Example Output¶

HELLO WORLD!

date-conf¶

Data type:

date-conf

Description:

Used to format a date, see PHP function date(). The following abbreviations are available:

Abb	The abbreviation is expanded to:
a	“am” or “pm”
A	“AM” or “PM”
d	01 - 31, day of the month, numeric, 2 digits with leading zeros
D	day of the week, textual, 3 letters like “Fri”
F	month, textual, long, like “January”
h	hour, numeric, 12 hour format
H	hour, numeric, 24 hour format
i	minutes, numeric
j	1 - 31, day of the month, numeric, without leading zeros
l	(lowercase ‘L’), day of the week, textual, long, like “Friday”
m	month, numeric
M	month, textual, 3 letters, like “Jan”
s	seconds, numeric
S	English ordinal suffix, textual, 2 characters, like “th” or “nd”
U	seconds since the epoch
Y	year, numeric, 4 digits, like “2013”
w	day of the week, numeric, 0 represents Sunday
y	year, numeric, 2 digits, like “13”
z	day of the year, numeric, like “299”

Example:

EXT:site_package/Configuration/TypoScript/setup.typoscript¶
page.10.date-conf = d-m-y

degree¶

Data type:: degree
Description:: -90 to 90, integers
Example:: 45

dir¶

Data type:

dir

Syntax:

[path relative to the web root of the site] | [list of valid extensions] | [sorting: name, size, ext, date] | [reverse: “r”] | [return full path: boolean]

Description:

Files matching are returned in a comma-separated string.

Example:

This example returns a list of all pdf, gif and jpg-files from fileadmin/files/ sorted by their name reversely and with the full path (with fileadmin/files/ prepended):

EXT:site_package/Configuration/TypoScript/setup.typoscript¶

page.10.dir = fileadmin/files/ | pdf,gif,jpg | name | r | true

function name¶

Data type:

function name

Description:

Indicates a function or method in a class to call. See more information at the USER cObject.

If no namespaces are used, then the class or function name, but not the method name, should probably be prefixed with user_. The prefix can be changed in the $GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS'] config though. The function / method is normally called with 2 parameters, $conf which is the TypoScript configuration and $content, some content to be processed and returned.

If no namespaces are used and if a method in a class is called, it is checked (when using the USER/USER_INT objects) whether a class with the same name, but prefixed with ux_ is present and if so, this class is instantiated instead. See the document “Inside TYPO3” for more information on extending classes in TYPO3!

Examples:

Method in namespaced class. This is the preferred version:

Your\NameSpace\YourClass->reverseString

Single Function:

user_reverseString

Method in class without namespace:

user_yourClass->reverseString

getText¶

The getText data type is some kind of tool box allowing to retrieve values from a variety of sources. Read more: getText

GraphicColor¶

Data type:

GraphicColor

Syntax:

[colordef] : [modifier]

Where modifier can be an integer which is added or subtracted to the three RGB-channels or a floating point with an * before, which will then multiply the values with that factor.

Description:

The color can be given as HTML-color or as a comma-separated list of RGB-values (integers). An extra parameter can be given, that will modify the color mathematically:

Examples:

red (HTML-color)

#ffeecc (HTML-color)

255,0,255 (RGB-integers)

Extra:

red : *0.8 (“red” is darkened by factor 0.8)

#ffeecc : +16 (“ffeecc” is going to #fffedc because 16 is added)

HTML code¶

Data type:: HTML code
Description:: Pure HTML code

Example:

Example HTML code¶
<b>Some text in bold</b>

HTML-color¶

Data type:

HTML-color

Description:

Named colors or color codes.

Some HTML color codes are:

Color name	Hexadecimal code
Black	#000000
Silver	#C0C0C0
Gray	#808080
White	#FFFFFF
Maroon	#800000
Red	#FF0000
Purple	#800080
Fuchsia	#FF00FF
Green	#008000
Lime	#00FF00
Olive	#808000
Yellow	#FFFF00
Navy	#000080
Blue	#0000FF
Teal	#008080
Aqua	#00FFFF

Examples:

red

#ffeecc

imageExtension¶

Data type:

imageExtension

Description:

Image extensions can be anything among the allowed types defined in the global variable $GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['GFX']['imagefile_ext']. Standard is pdf, gif, jpg, jpeg, tif, bmp, ai, pcx, tga, png.

The value “web” is special. This will just ensure that an image is converted to a web image format (gif or jpg) if it happens not to be already!

Examples:

jpg

web (gif or jpg ..)

imgResource¶

Data type:

imgResource

Description:

A resource plus imgResource properties.

Filetypes can be anything among the allowed types defined in the configuration variable $GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['GFX']['imagefile_ext']. Standard is pdf, gif, jpg, jpeg, tif, bmp, ai, pcx, tga, png.
A GIFBUILDER object. See the object reference for GIFBUILDER below.

Examples:

Here “file” is an imgResource:

EXT:site_package/Configuration/TypoScript/setup.typoscript¶

10 = IMAGE
10 {
    file = fileadmin/toplogo.gif
    file.width = 200
}

GIFBUILDER:

EXT:site_package/Configuration/TypoScript/setup.typoscript¶

10 = IMAGE
10.file = GIFBUILDER
10.file {
    # GIFBUILDER properties here...
}

integer¶

Data type:: integer / int
Examples:: 42, -8, -9, 0
Description:: This data type is sometimes used generally though another type would have been more appropriate, like pixels.

linkWrap¶

Data type:

linkWrap

Syntax:

<.. {x}.> | </…>

Description:

{x}; x is an integer (0-9) and points to a key in the PHP array root line. The key is equal to the level the current page is on measured relatively to the root of the website.

If the key exists the uid of the level that key pointed to is inserted instead of {x}.

Thus we can insert page_ids from previous levels.

Example:

This will make a link to the root-level of a website:

EXT:site_package/Configuration/TypoScript/setup.typoscript¶

page.10.linkWrap = <a href="?id={0}"> | </a>

list¶

Data type:: list
Description:: List of values, comma separated. Values are trimmed, leading whitespace is therefore ignored before and after each comma.

Example:

EXT:site_package/Configuration/TypoScript/setup.typoscript¶
page.10.myList = item,item2,item3

margins¶

Data type:

margins

Syntax:

left, top, right, bottom

Example:

This sets margin-left to 10 and margin-bottom to 5. Top and right are not set (zero):

EXT:site_package/Configuration/TypoScript/setup.typoscript¶

page.10.myMargins = 10,0,0,5

page_id¶

Data type:

page_id

Description:

A page id (integer) or this (=current page id).

Examples:

EXT:site_package/Configuration/TypoScript/setup.typoscript¶

page.10.settings.pid = this

page.20.settings.pid = 34

path¶

Data type:

path

Description:

Path relative to the root directory from which we operate.

Example:

EXT:site_package/Configuration/TypoScript/setup.typoscript¶

page.10.settings.somePath = fileadmin/stuff/

pixels¶

Data type:

pixels

Description:

pixel-distance

Example:

EXT:site_package/Configuration/TypoScript/setup.typoscript¶

page.10.someWidth = 345

positive integer¶

Data type:: positive integer / posint / int+
Description:: Positive integer.
Examples:: 42, 8, 9

resource¶

Data type:

resource

Description:

If the value contains a “/”, it is expected to be a reference (absolute or relative) to a file in the file system. There is no support for wildcard characters in the name of the reference.

Example:

Reference to a file in the file system:

EXT:site_package/Configuration/TypoScript/setup.typoscript¶

page.10.settings.someFile = fileadmin/picture.gif

rotation¶

Data type:: rotation
Description:: integer, degrees from 0 - 360
Example:: 180

space¶

Data type:

space

Syntax:

“space before | space after”

Description:

Used for content and sets the according number of pixels space “before | after”.

Example:

EXT:site_package/Configuration/TypoScript/setup.typoscript¶

page.10.someSpace = 5 | 5

strftime-conf¶

Data type:

strftime-conf

Description:

Abb	The abbreviation is expanded to:
%a	abbreviated weekday name according to the current locale
%A	full weekday name according to the current locale
%b	abbreviated month name according to the current locale
%B	full month name according to the current locale
%c	preferred date and time representation for the current locale
%C	century number (the year divided by 100 and truncated to an integer, range 00 to 99)
%d	day of the month as a decimal number (range 00 to 31)
%D	same as %m/%d/%y
%e	day of the month as a decimal number, a single digit is preceded by a space (range ‘ 1’ to ‘31’). Note that the %e modifier is not supported in the Windows implementation of ‘strftime’.
%h	same as %b
%H	hour as a decimal number using a 24-hour clock (range 00 to 23)
%I	hour as a decimal number using a 12-hour clock (range 01 to 12)
%j	day of the year as a decimal number (range 001 to 366)
%m	month as a decimal number (range 01 to 12)
%M	minute as a decimal number
%n	newline character
%p	either `am’ or `pm’ according to the given time value, or the corresponding strings for the current locale
%r	time in a.m. and p.m. notation
%R	time in 24 hour notation
%S	second as a decimal number
%t	tab character
%T	current time, equal to %H:%M:%S
%u	weekday as a decimal number [1,7], with 1 representing Monday
%U	week number of the current year as a decimal number, starting with the first Sunday as the first day of the first week
%V	The ISO 8601:1988 week number of the current year as a decimal number, range 01 to 53, where week 1 is the first week that has at least 4 days in the current year, and with Monday as the first day of the week.
%W	week number of the current year as a decimal number, starting with the first Monday as the first day of the first week
%w	day of the week as a decimal, Sunday being 0
%x	preferred date representation for the current locale without the time
%X	preferred time representation for the current locale without the date
%y	year as a decimal number without a century (range 00 to 99)
%Y	year as a decimal number including the century
%Z	time zone or name or abbreviation
%%	a literal `%’ character

Examples:

Date “DD-MM-YY” = :

EXT:site_package/Configuration/TypoScript/setup.typoscript¶

page.10.settings.myDate = %e:%m:%y

Time “HH:MM:SS” = :

EXT:site_package/Configuration/TypoScript/setup.typoscript¶

page.10.settings.myTime = %H:%M:%S

or just :

EXT:site_package/Configuration/TypoScript/setup.typoscript¶

page.10.settings.someTime = %T

string¶

Data type:: string / str / value
Description:: Sometimes used generally though another type would have been more appropriate, like “align”.
Example:: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

<tag>¶

Data type:

<tag>

Description:

An HTML tag.

Example:

EXT:site_package/Configuration/TypoScript/setup.typoscript¶

page.10.settings.bodyTag = <body lang="de">

<tag>-data¶

Data type:

<tag>-data

Examples:

<frameset>-data: row

could be ‘150,*’

<tag>-params¶

Data type:

<tag>-params

Description:

Parameters for a tag.

Example:

For <frameset>-params:

EXT:site_package/Configuration/TypoScript/setup.typoscript¶

page.10.settings.someParams = border="0" framespacing="0"

target¶

Data type:

target

Examples:

_top, _blank, content

Description:

Target in an <a>-tag.

This is normally the same value as the name of the root-level object that defines the frame.

UNIX-time¶

Data type:

UNIX-time

Description:

Seconds since January 1st 1970.

Example:

Seconds to May 09th 2016 12:34:

1462790096

VHalign¶

Data type:

VHalign

Description:

Pair of values separated by a comma. The first value determines the horizontal alignment, the second one the vertical alignment.

Possible values:

r/c/l
t/c/b

Horizontal values standing for: right, center, left

Vertical values standing for: top, center, bottom

Default: l , t

Example:

Horizontal alignment = right and Vertical alignment = center:

EXT:site_package/Configuration/TypoScript/setup.typoscript¶

page.10.settings.someAlignment = r , c

wrap¶

Data type:

wrap

Syntax:

<…> | </…>

Description:

Used to wrap something. The vertical bar (“|”) is the place, where your content will be inserted; the parts on the left and right of the vertical line are placed on the left and right side of the content.

Spaces between the wrap-parts and the divider (“|”) are trimmed off from each part of the wrap.

If you want to use more sophisticated data functions, then you should use stdWrap.dataWrap instead of wrap.

A wrap is processed and rendered as the last of the other components of a cObject.

Example:

This will cause the value to be wrapped in a p-tag coloring the value red:

EXT:site_package/Configuration/TypoScript/setup.typoscript¶

page.10.stdWrap.wrap = <p class="bg-red"> | </p>

x,y,w,h¶

Data type:

x,y,w,h

Description:

x,y is the offset from the upper left corner.

w,h is the width and height

Example:

EXT:site_package/Configuration/TypoScript/setup.typoscript¶
page.10.someDimensions = 10,10,5,5