Configuring Extension Output with TypoScript for Extensibility and Reusability

By: Lucas Thurston

Say that you want to query a different table though. Do the same as above, but overwrite the getRecords() method in the child extension and write your TypoScript and HTML template, and you're done.

  This is a ridiculously simple example, and often there are times when additional PHP is required to process database values into output. Why not check to see if there's a special method for rendering a given field. Instead of this line in our getMarkerArrays() method:
  $currentMarkerArray[$cObjName] = $lCobj->cObjGetSingle($cObjType,$cObjConf);

  Try this:
  $methodName = 'getMarkerValue_'.$cObjName; if(method_exists($this,$methodName)) { $currentMarkerArray[$cObjName] = $this->$methodName($cObjType,$cObjConf,$lCobj); }

Pass the cObj type, the cObj configuration and the cObj instance itself (which should be picked up by reference in the called method).
I hope you find this useful. Let me know what you think.

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