Custom news types

Out of the box news comes with three types built in:

  • "News": Default news record

  • "Internal Page": The news record is linked to a regular page.

  • "External Page": The news record is linked to an external URL.

To add your custom type, you have to follow the steps below.

Note

In this example the new type will be called 'myCustomNewsType' and is configured to only show the fields 'title' and 'bodytext'.

1) Class Mapping

Create a file Configuration/Extbase/Persistence/Classes.php

<?php
return [
 \GeorgRinger\News\Domain\Model\News::class => [
     'subclasses' => [
         3 => \Vendor\ExtName\Domain\Model\MyCustomNewsType::class,
     ]
 ],
 \Vendor\ExtName\Domain\Model\MyCustomNewsType::class => [
     'tableName' => 'tx_news_domain_model_news',
     'recordType' => 3,
 ]
];

2) TCA

In this example, the new type is configured to show the fields bodytext and title. Therefore, create the file Configuration/TCA/Overrides/tx_news_domain_model_news.php.

<?php
  if (!defined('TYPO3_MODE')) {
    die ('Access denied.');
  }

  $GLOBALS['TCA']['tx_news_domain_model_news']['columns']['type']['config']['items']['3'] =
    ['myCustomNewsType', 3] ;

  $GLOBALS['TCA']['tx_news_domain_model_news']['types']['3'] = [
    'showitem' => 'title, bodytext'
  ];

3) Custom class

<?php

namespace Vendor\ExtName\Domain\Model;

class MyCustomNewsType extends \GeorgRinger\News\Domain\Model\News {

}

Hint

This is a very basic example. It would also be possible to use your custom news type to show custom fields. How to add custom fields to news is documented here.