EXT: CSS styled MULTIMEDIA¶

Table of Contents¶

EXT: CSS styled MULTIMEDIA 1

Introduction 1

What does it do? 1

Screenshots 1

Users manual 2

FAQ 2

Configuration 2

Reference 2

Known problems 3

To-Do list 3

Changelog 3

Introduction¶

Users manual¶

Select the type of your content element as usual – Multimedia. Then you will see a couple of fields related to your user right:

select the multimedia file or upload one

enter the width and the height of the plugin area, or leave it blank for default size

put the alternative description of the multimedia content for accessibility reasons, in this field you can also put a notice for people who have not installed the right plugin with a link to the plugin vendor; you don't need to enter HTML markup here, because paragraphs will be added automatically, http and mail links will be resolved correctly as a link in the frontend etc.

the next field – plugin parameters – is sometimes needed for some plugins or applications, e.g. the path to the application source files etc. Start each parameter on a new line, so they can be organized in separate html elements.

the last field is for application parameters if needed, e.g. you can submit to your some links and texts to your flash animation wich are added to the file name this way: flashfile.swf?parameter1=someText&parameter2=http://www.yourlink.net

Configuration¶

The extension can only be installed if the extension css_styled_content is already running on your system, because it is the base technology for this extension.

If you install the extension, you will be asked, whether you wish to use DAM reference technology or / and the traditional file system. You can choose both or only DAM reference, if you have installed DAM in a version >= 0.3.0.

The first step after the installation is to activate the default TypoScript configuration of this extension. You can do it in your main template: choose the entry “CSS Styled MULTIMEDIA (css_styled_multimedia)” in the field “Include static (from extensions)”. Then you can override some TypoScript settings, if you wish.

The most part of the TypoScript settings is taken unchanged from css_styled_content, so refer to the TSRef part about cObject element “MULTIMEDIA”. Additional configuration you will find here.

includeLibs.tx_cssstyledmultimedia = EXT:css_styled_multimedia/class.tx_cssstyledmultimedia.php
tt_content.multimedia.20 = USER
tt_content.multimedia.20.userFunc = tx_cssstyledmultimedia->cssMULTIMEDIA
tt_content.multimedia.20 {
  width = {$styles.content.imgtext.maxW}
  width.override.field = imagewidth
  height = {$styles.content.imgtext.maxW}
  height.override.field = imageheight
  stdWrap.wrap = <div class="multimedia">|</div>
  alternative.field = imagecaption
  alternative.parseFunc = < lib.parseFunc_RTE
  aparams.field = tx_cssstyledmultimedia_parameters
}

Known problems¶

Older versions (<0.1.2) have a bug: the Flexform field is broken if you install this extension. Install the current version.

To-Do list¶

More testing of different multimedia types, browser checking, debugging.

Changelog¶

• 0.1.0 initial TER version
• 0.1.3 pi_flexform bug fixed, new field is added to tt_content – for application parameters

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