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title: "Important: The select item helper passes the field TSconfig"
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# Important: The select item helper passes the field TSconfig {#important-items-proc-func-helper-passes-the-field-ts-config}

## Description {#description}

`GetSelectItemsForTcaManagedTableFieldMethodTrait::getSelectItemsForTcaManagedTableField()`
resolves the items of a TCA select outside FormEngine, by calling the field's
`itemsProcFunc` handler with a parameter array it assembles itself. That
array is meant to look like the one FormEngine passes, and in one entry it did
not: `$parameters['TSconfig']` held the complete page TSconfig tree of the
current page.

FormEngine passes something narrower there: the content of the field's
`itemsProcFunc.` page TSconfig, with that key already stripped, and
`null` when the field has none. The helper now passes the same.

```typoscript
# The part a handler receives in $parameters['TSconfig']
TCEFORM.tx_academicjobs_domain_model_job.type.itemsProcFunc {
    mySetting = 1
}
```

## Impact {#impact}

A handler that reads a setting of its own from `$parameters['TSconfig']`
found nothing when it was called through this helper, and works now. No handler
of these extensions read that entry before, so nothing this package ships
changes behaviour.

A project handler that compensated for the old shape, by descending through
`$parameters['TSconfig']['TCEFORM.']` itself, has to be adjusted: it now
receives the subtree directly, or `null`. A handler that also serves the
backend form already expects that shape, because FormEngine always passed it.

```php
// Before, only through this helper
$mySetting = $parameters['TSconfig']['TCEFORM.'][$table . '.'][$field . '.']['itemsProcFunc.']['mySetting'] ?? null;

// After, the same as in FormEngine
$mySetting = $parameters['TSconfig']['mySetting'] ?? null;
```

## Affected Installations {#affected-installations}

Installations with an own `itemsProcFunc` handler that is reached through
this helper and reads page TSconfig. The helper is used by
[`fgtclb/academic-jobs`](https://packagist.org/packages/fgtclb/academic-jobs) for the job form of its frontend plugin.