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EXT: Backend templates system

Author:Kasper Skårhøj
Created:2002-11-01T00:32:00
Changed by:Manuel Rego
Changed:2007-08-06T11:04:53
Author:Miriam Pena Villanueva
Email:mpena@igalia.com
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EXT: Backend templates system

Extension Key: gl_be_templates

Copyright 2000-2002, Miriam Pena Villanueva, <mpena@igalia.com>

This document is published under the Open Content License

available from http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml

The content of this document is related to TYPO3

- a GNU/GPL CMS/Framework available from www.typo3.com

Table of Contents

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Introduction 1

What does it do? 1

Users manual 1

Known problems 2

To-Do list 3

Changelog 3

Introduction

What does it do?

This extension is used to separate the logic from the HTML code.

Integrates Kristian Koehntopp template management system to be used in backend modules of Typo3. For more information see http://phplib.sourceforge.net/ and http://phplib.sourceforge.net/ .

Users manual

There are two elements for these templates:

  • Blocks:

    <!-- BEGIN block_name -->
<strong>Block content</strong> ...
<!-- END block_name -->

  • Variables (between '{' and '}'):

    <strong>{var_name}</strong>

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Example

Template file typo3conf/ext/my_ext/templates/example.tmpl :

<!-- BEGIN table -->
<table>
  <tr>
          <td><strong>{header1}</strong></td>
          <td><strong>{header2}</strong></td>
  </tr>
        {rows}
</table>
<!-- END table -->

<!-- BEGIN row -->
<tr>
  <td>{column1}</td>
  <td>{column2}</td>
</tr>
<!-- END row -->

Creates an instance of tx_template_util class:

$tpl = t3lib_div::makeInstance("tx_template_util");

Set the root directory for the templates file:

$tpl->set_root(t3lib_extMgm::extPath('my_ext'));

Set the template file:

$tpl->set_file(array('body' => 'templates/example.tmpl'));

Set the templates blocks:

$tpl->set_block('body','table');
$tpl->set_block('body','row');

Loop to generates the rows:

$rows = @$GLOBALS['TYPO3_DB']->exec_SELECTgetRows('uid, title', 'tt_news', '');

foreach ($rows as $row) {

Set the variables:

   $tpl->set_var('column1', $row['uid']);
$tpl->set_var('column1', $row['title']);

Parse the rows (attention to the third param TRUE , if true the value is appended to the variable's existing value):

$tpl->parse('rows','row',true);

Close the loop:

}

Set the variables for the heading:

$tpl->set_var('header1', 'UID');
$tpl->set_var('header2', 'Title');

Parse the main block:

$tpl->parse('out', 'table');

Get the result:

$content = $tpl->get('out', 'table');

For more information about the class tx_template_util see the source code comments.

Known problems

None at the time. Just contact me if you find some.

To-Do list

Please contact me if you have any suggestion about this extension.

Changelog

0.1.0: First public release.

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