Switchable controller actions in TYPO3 Extbase

22 January 2014

When You devloping TYPO3 modules with Extbase, You could have a situation, when You have multiple variations of the same plugin, in this example, I will show how to

Code

First, You need to register the flexform to configure the plugin in back end. Second, You should add actions, which would be available for each plugin’s configuration variation.

ext_tables.php

Tx_Extbase_Utility_Extension::registerPlugin(
	$_EXTKEY,
	'Structures',
	'Structures'
);
$pluginSignature = str_replace('_','',$_EXTKEY) . '_structures';
$TCA['tt_content']['types']['list']['subtypes_addlist'][$pluginSignature] = 'pi_flexform';
t3lib_extMgm::addPiFlexFormValue($pluginSignature, 'FILE:EXT:' . $_EXTKEY . '/Configuration/FlexForms/flexform_structures.xml');

flexform_structures.xml

<T3DataStructure>
 <sheets>
  <sDEF>
   <ROOT>
	 <TCEforms>
	  <sheetTitle>Function</sheetTitle>
	 </TCEforms>
	 <type>array</type>
	 <el>
	  <switchableControllerActions>
	   <TCEforms>
		 <label>Select function</label>
		 <config>
		  <type>select</type>
		  <items>
			
			<numIndex index="0">
			 <numIndex index="0">List</numIndex>
			 <numIndex index="1">Structure->list</numIndex>
			</numIndex>
			
			<numIndex index="1">
			 <numIndex index="0">Map</numIndex>
			 <numIndex index="1">Structure->map</numIndex>
			</numIndex>
			
		   </items>
		 </config>
	   </TCEforms>
	  </switchableControllerActions>
	 </el>
   </ROOT>
  </sDEF>
 </sheets>
</T3DataStructure>

Ressources

https://gist.github.com/michaelorionmcmanus/840913
http://www.typo3.net/forum/thematik/zeige/thema/115451/
http://forge.typo3.org/issues/31322