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TypoScript Magic: tt_news Title in Headline or Menu or somewhere

Friday, June 06th, 2008 | Author: Benni

In almost every TYPO3 project of mine, I use this awesomely generic tt_news for displaying news, top offers, etc. In many projects I also have a headline or a breadcrums menu somewhere, telling about the title of the page. tt_news itself offers the possibility to substitute the page title in the <title> tag, however I often use my own title tag rendering, or by using the excellent seo_basics extension :). So the tt_news title is not substituted at all. Therefore I always wrote this little TypoScript snippet that I can use everywhere:

lib.newstitle = RECORDS
lib.newstitle {
    dontCheckPid = 1
    tables = tt_news
    source.data = GPvar:tx_ttnews|tt_news
    conf.tt_news = TEXT
    conf.tt_news.field = title
    conf.tt_news.required = 1
}

This renders the tt_news title if there if there exists one. This can easily be attached to anything else in TypoScript, to a breadcrumbs menu for instance:

lib.breadcrumbs = COA
lib.breadcrumbs.10 = HMENU
lib.breadcrumbs.10 {
    special = rootline
    special.range = 1
    1 = TMENU
    1.noBlur = 1
    1.NO.linkWrap =  > |
}
lib.breadcrumbs.20 < lib.newstitle
lib.breadcrumbs.20.conf.tt_news.wrap =  > |

And boom, there you go. Same goes for any pagetitle. The nice stdWrap option “.required = 1″ also only adds the “.wrap” option if the title is not empty.

Btw… thanks to Bob who had this issue on the typo3 tt_news newsgroup this week!

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8 Responses

  1. 1
    Chris 
    Saturday, 7. June 2008

    Hi, I just found your tip in the mailing list, it’s very nice ;
    by the way I think you forgot one line of code in this web page, e.g. this one :

    lib.breadcrumbs.20 = RECORDS

    regards,

    Chris

  2. 2
    Chris 
    Saturday, 7. June 2008

    sorry, the correct code is :

    lib.newstitle=RECORDS

  3. 3
    Benni 
    Saturday, 7. June 2008

    Hey Chris,

    yes, you’re right, I updated that one.

  4. 4
    Chris 
    Friday, 13. June 2008

    Now it’s OK I guess you can delete my posts now ;-)

  5. 5
    Michiel Roos 
    Thursday, 26. June 2008

    Hi Benni,

    I can use the lib in all kind of places. The place I want to use it in however, I cannot get it to work. I would like to use the value in a graphical header image.

    So it needs to be injected in ag GIFBUILDER TEXT object. And the object accepts lots of stuff, except the lib.newstitle.

  6. 6
    Benni 
    Saturday, 28. June 2008

    Hey Michiel.

    As I told you over PM, quite simple:

    GIFBUILDER.TEXT.text = blabla

    works. .text here has a stdWrap feature included. However, the lib.newstitle is a separate CObject (it’s a COA), not a stdWrap. BUT stdWrap allows you to fill the stdWrap content with a cObject. Do this.

    GIFBUILDER.TEXT.text.cObject < lib.newstitle

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    Antonio 
    Saturday, 19. July 2008

    is it possible to do the same but with the news category dynamicaly?
    i can’t manage to get the news cat.

    Thanks in advance for any tip.

  8. 8
    Benni 
    Sunday, 21. September 2008

    Hey Antonio,

    yeah, possible, but then I’d suggest looking into the CONTENT object, with the select. TypoScript object, you can do a DB query with a JOIN (with the tt_news_category, the MM table and the tt_news table). Don’t know it from the top of my head, but it’s quite straightforward, I use a similar approach (tt_address and tt_addressgroups) for a couple of my sites.

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