Route enhancers 

This extension ships three ready made route enhancers below Configuration/Routes/. TYPO3 does not read those files on its own — they are fragments that have to be imported from the configuration of the site which shows the plugins.

Each file covers exactly one plugin, so which of them you import follows from which plugins the site actually uses.

What the files enhance 

Detail.yaml
Enhancer ProfileDetailPlugin for the plugin Detail , argument namespace tx_academicpersons_detail . One route, /{profile_name} , for the detail action, mapping the argument profile . The path segment is resolved by a PersistedAliasMapper on the table tx_academicpersons_domain_model_profile over the field slug .
List.yaml
Enhancer ProfileListPlugin for the plugin List , argument namespace tx_academicpersons_list . Two routes for the list action: {localized_page}-{page} for demand/currentPage and /{letter} for demand/alphabetFilter . The page number is limited to a StaticRangeMapper from 1 to 1000, the letter to a StaticRangeMapper from a to z, and the word in front of the page number is translated by a LocaleModifier page by default, seite for German.
ListAndDetail.yaml
Enhancer ProfileListAndDetailPlugin for the plugin ListAndDetail , argument namespace tx_academicpersons_listanddetail . It is the union of the two above: the detail route, the pagination route and the letter route, with the same aspects, because that plugin renders both the list and the detail view.

Which file to import 

Which of them you import follows from which plugins the site actually uses:

  • A site that puts the List plugin on one page and the Detail plugin on another — the usual setup, where the list links to the detail page through the plugin setting detailPid — imports List.yaml and Detail.yaml.
  • A site that puts the single ListAndDetail plugin on one page imports ListAndDetail.yaml only.
  • A site that uses both variants imports all three, and then has to bound each of them to its own pages — see the next section.

The remaining plugins of this extension — SelectedProfiles , SelectedContracts and Card — take no frontend arguments, so no enhancer is shipped for them.

Limiting an enhancer to its pages 

An enhancer is offered to every page of the site unless it says otherwise, and TYPO3 takes the first candidate route whose path matches and whose aspects resolve. Two enhancers are not kept apart by belonging to different plugins, nor by carrying different keys — neither is what the matcher looks at.

The three files of this extension describe the same two views, so their routes overlap by construction:

Route Declared in
/{profile_name} Detail.yaml and ListAndDetail.yaml
{localized_page}-{page} List.yaml and ListAndDetail.yaml
/{letter} List.yaml and ListAndDetail.yaml

Each pair is identical down to the mapper, so importing more than one file without saying where it applies means the file imported first takes those URLs on every page of the site. The plugin on the other page then never receives its argument: the dedicated detail page answers 404, and the combined plugin renders the unfiltered list where a letter was asked for.

Only resolving is ambiguous. Generating a URL is scoped to the plugin namespace being linked, so the links keep looking right, which is why this surfaces as a broken page rather than as a broken link.

limitToPages is the answer, and with it in place the import order no longer matters:

config/sites/my_site/config.yaml
imports:
  - resource: 'EXT:academic_persons/Configuration/Routes/List.yaml'
  - resource: 'EXT:academic_persons/Configuration/Routes/ListAndDetail.yaml'
  - resource: 'EXT:academic_persons/Configuration/Routes/Detail.yaml'

routeEnhancers:
  ProfileListPlugin:
    limitToPages: [12, 13]
  ProfileListAndDetailPlugin:
    limitToPages: [14]
  ProfileDetailPlugin:
    limitToPages: [15]
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The uids are those of the pages carrying the plugin in question, and they are the uids of the default language: matching derives the page as l10n_parent ?: uid , so one list covers every translation of that page. Plain page uids work on every TYPO3 version this extension supports.

A site that imports a single file needs no limitation for this extension, but adding it is still worth the two lines. What keeps a route path of the same shape from another extension apart is only that its mapper rejects the value — a slug that happens to exist in both tables is enough to make the two compete.

What the URLs look like 

Assuming the list plugin sits on a page with the slug /persons and the detail plugin on /persons/profile, the URLs change as follows.

Without the enhancers
/persons?tx_academicpersons_list%5Bdemand%5D%5BcurrentPage%5D=2
/persons?tx_academicpersons_list%5Bdemand%5D%5BalphabetFilter%5D=m
/persons/profile?tx_academicpersons_detail%5Bprofile%5D=42
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With the enhancers imported
/persons/page-2
/persons/m
/persons/profile/jane-doe
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Caveats 

  • The detail route needs a slug. PersistedAliasMapper resolves the path segment against the slug field of the profile record, so a profile whose slug is empty cannot be reached through the enhanced URL. The slug is generated by the TCA slug field, which means it is filled when the record is saved in the backend. Profiles created by academicpersons:createprofiles are persisted through the Extbase persistence manager and therefore never pass the DataHandler , so those records — and records that predate the field — start out with an empty slug and have to be saved once in the backend before the enhanced URL resolves.
  • The two list routes are alternatives, not a combination. A link that carries a page number and a letter matches the pagination route, and the letter stays behind as a query argument — /persons/page-2?tx_academicpersons_list[demand][alphabetFilter]=m.
  • Only the mapped value ranges are put into the path. A page number above 1000, and the empty filter value that the A-Z reset link of the alphabet pagination submits, are outside the mapped ranges, so those links keep their query argument.
  • The localeMap of the LocaleModifier is matched against the locale of the site language, with the underscores replaced by hyphens and anchored at the start. The shipped map lists en_EN.* and de_DE.* , which means a German language configured as de-DE is translated to seite while a plain de is not. Adjust the map to the locales your site actually uses.
  • Unlike the program list of academic_programs, the pagination and the alphabet filter of this extension are rendered as links, not as a form, so their own requests do carry the arguments in the URL and are enhanced.