EXT:site-core - A TYPO3 Extension to use solid APIs during development

Features

Simplified the way to create way faster new Content-Elements
An easier way of rendering custom Content-Elements via "Frontend-Rendering-Engine" (also PSR-14 Events!)
Includes a bunch of custom utility-classes as services
Will always support LTS versions of both TYPO3 and PHP - currently v12 and v8.2

Why would I need this

I've developed this extension primarily only the due to the TcaService class since I struggled/didn't enjoy copy&paste TCA arrays - especially those Table properties (ctrl) arrays. That one big array you need for the usage of inline records, which you place inside e.g. EXT:site_core/Configuration/TCA/Overrides/my_domain_model.php and basically returns an array of configured ctrl stuff.

Turns out stuff like that (ctrl-array)...

An example of the big, big ctrl-array

<?php

return [
    'ctrl' => [
        'title' => 'LLL:EXT:site_core/Resources/Private/Language/locallang_db.xlf:tx_sitecore_domain_model_test',
        'label' => 'title',
        'tstamp' => 'tstamp',
        'crdate' => 'crdate',
        'cruser_id' => 'cruser_id',
        'versioningWS' => true,
        'languageField' => 'sys_language_uid',
        'transOrigPointerField' => 'l10n_parent',
        'transOrigDiffSourceField' => 'l10n_diffsource',
        'delete' => 'deleted',
        'sortby' => 'sorting',
        'enablecolumns' => [
            'disabled' => 'hidden',
            'starttime' => 'starttime',
            'endtime' => 'endtime',
        ],
        'searchFields' => 'title',
        'iconfile' => 'EXT:site_core/Resources/Public/Icons/tx_sitecore_domain_model_test.gif'
    ],
    'interface' => [
        'showRecordFieldList' => 'sys_language_uid, l10n_parent, l10n_diffsource, hidden, title',
    ],
    'types' => [
        '1' => ['showitem' => 'sys_language_uid, l10n_parent, l10n_diffsource, hidden, title, --div--;LLL:EXT:frontend/Resources/Private/Language/locallang_ttc.xlf:tabs.access, starttime, endtime'],
    ],
    'columns' => [
        'sys_language_uid' => [
            'exclude' => true,
            'label' => 'LLL:EXT:core/Resources/Private/Language/locallang_general.xlf:LGL.language',
            'config' => [
                'type' => 'select',
                'renderType' => 'selectSingle',
                'special' => 'languages',
                'items' => [
                    [
                        'LLL:EXT:core/Resources/Private/Language/locallang_general.xlf:LGL.allLanguages',
                        -1,
                        'flags-multiple'
                    ]
                ],
                'default' => 0,
            ],
        ],
        'l10n_parent' => [
            'displayCond' => 'FIELD:sys_language_uid:>:0',
            'exclude' => true,
            'label' => 'LLL:EXT:core/Resources/Private/Language/locallang_general.xlf:LGL.l18n_parent',
            'config' => [
                'type' => 'select',
                'renderType' => 'selectSingle',
                'default' => 0,
                'items' => [
                    ['', 0],
                ],
                'foreign_table' => 'tx_sitecore_domain_model_test',
                'foreign_table_where' => 'AND {#tx_sitecore_domain_model_test}.{#pid}=###CURRENT_PID### AND {#tx_sitecore_domain_model_test}.{#sys_language_uid} IN (-1,0)',
            ],
        ],
        'l10n_diffsource' => [
            'config' => [
                'type' => 'passthrough',
            ],
        ],
        't3ver_label' => [
            'label' => 'LLL:EXT:core/Resources/Private/Language/locallang_general.xlf:LGL.versionLabel',
            'config' => [
                'type' => 'input',
                'size' => 30,
                'max' => 255,
            ],
        ],
        'hidden' => [
            'exclude' => true,
            'label' => 'LLL:EXT:core/Resources/Private/Language/locallang_general.xlf:LGL.visible',
            'config' => [
                'type' => 'check',
                'renderType' => 'checkboxToggle',
                'items' => [
                    [
                        0 => '',
                        1 => '',
                        'invertStateDisplay' => true
                    ]
                ],
            ],
        ],
        'starttime' => [
            'exclude' => true,
            'label' => 'LLL:EXT:core/Resources/Private/Language/locallang_general.xlf:LGL.starttime',
            'config' => [
                'type' => 'input',
                'renderType' => 'inputDateTime',
                'eval' => 'datetime,int',
                'default' => 0,
                'behaviour' => [
                    'allowLanguageSynchronization' => true
                ]
            ],
        ],
        'endtime' => [
            'exclude' => true,
            'label' => 'LLL:EXT:core/Resources/Private/Language/locallang_general.xlf:LGL.endtime',
            'config' => [
                'type' => 'input',
                'renderType' => 'inputDateTime',
                'eval' => 'datetime,int',
                'default' => 0,
                'range' => [
                    'upper' => mktime(0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 2038)
                ],
                'behaviour' => [
                    'allowLanguageSynchronization' => true
                ]
            ],
        ],
        'sorting' => [
            'label' => 'sorting',
            'config' => [
                'type' => 'passthrough',
            ]
        ],
        'title' => [
            'exclude' => true,
            'label' => 'LLL:EXT:site_core/Resources/Private/Language/locallang_db.xlf:tx_sitecore_domain_model_test.title',
            'config' => [
                'type' => 'input',
                'size' => 30,
                'eval' => 'trim'
            ],
        ],
    ],
];

Note: This example configuration covers only one field (the title) yet.

...could be way easier using site/site-core's TcaService:

TcaService way

<?php

use Site\Core\Form\Fields;

return Fields\Inline::make('Accordion', [
    'label' => 'rte',

    'columns' => [
        'header' => Fields\Input::make('Header'),
        'rte' => Fields\RTE::make('RTE'),
        'file' => Fields\File::make('File', [
            'fieldName' => 'file'
        ]),
        'image' => Fields\Image::make('Image', [
            'fieldName' => 'image'
        ]),
        'subaccords' => Fields\InlineItem::make('sub accordsss', [
            'config' => [
                'foreign_table' => 'tx_sitebackend_domain_model_accordions'
            ]
        ]),
    ],
]);

Noticed that this simplified configuration holds 5 fields already and is way more understandable than the other?

Installation

composer req site/site-core

Documentation

For documentation please head over to site-core.readthedocs.io

License

MIT