Extending EXT:news¶

This tutorial will help you to extend the extension “news”.

Tip

Take a look at the extension https://github.com/cyberhouse/t3ext-newsauthor which adds a relation to the table “fe_users”.

Custom ViewHelpers¶

It is very easy to adopt the output of EXT:news by using custom ViewHelpers. There you can use the full power of PHP to add stuff you need.

All you need is a new extension with a structure like:

Classes\
        ViewHelpers\
                YourNewViewHelper.php
ext_emconf.php

and you can then use your ViewHelper in the template like this:

    {namespace y=Tx_NameOfYourExtension_ViewHelpers}
<y:yourNew>test</y:yourNew>

To get to know how a ViewHelper needs to look like, check the ViewHelpers of EXT:news, the core (typo3/sysext/fluid/Classes/ViewHelpers) or any other extbase based extension.

Extend the classes¶

Extending a model is a typical usecase when dealing with customer’s projects. This tutorial will show how to extend the news record with one text field.

Extend the database table¶

Use extension kickstarter or extension_builder or extension_builder to extend the news record with one field. In this tutorial the extension will be called workshop and the field will therefore be tx_workshop_title. You are finished with this step if you can add content to the new field in the backend.

Create the model

Create a model for your additional field. Important: the structure needs to match the one of EXT:news. If you wanna extend Tx_News_Domain_Model_News, your class needs to be Tx_Workshop_Domain_Model_News, which means having the file News.php in EXT:workshop/Classes/Domain/Model/.

The content looks like:

<?php

        class Tx_Workshop_Domain_Model_News extends Tx_News_Domain_Model_News {

                /**
                * @var string
                */
                protected $txWorkshopTitle;

                public function getTxWorkshopTitle() {
                        return $this->txWorkshopTitle;
                }
                public function getWorkshopTitle() {
                        return $this->txWorkshopTitle;
                }
        }

?>

The property $txWorkshopTitle needs to match the database field (underscores in the field name need to be transferred to camelcase).

Tell EXT:news about it.

EXT:news still doesn’t now anything about the extension workshop. Therefore create the file EXT:workshop/Resources/Private/extend-news.txt with the content

Domain/Model/News

As explanation: Add per line the path to the file you want to extend

Clear Cache¶

clear the cache and you are done. EXT:news will fetch the content of all files which extend the ones from EXT:news and will create some proxy classes in typo3temp/Cache/Code/cache_phpcode/, in this example the file Domain_Model_News.php

Use the new field in the template¶

You can now use the new field in the template by using

{newsItem.txWorkshopTitle}

or

{newsItem.workshopTitle}

Extend the sorting properties in the plugin settings¶

Default values in “Sort by” are: tstamp,datetime,crdate,title.

Add a new value (e.g. starttime in the below example):

$GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['EXT']['news']['orderByNews'] .= ',starttime';

Add this in ext_tables.php of a custom extension.