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Without requirements or design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file. — Louis Srygley

So, consequently, you don’t have to manually assign a different layout to pages, post, articles, … but only fill the areas with content and the template will automatically adapt.

This snippet will only wrap an area if there is a published content element assigned to it.

temp.LEFTCONTENT < styles.content.getLeft
temp.LEFTCONTENT.stdWrap {
	wrap = <div id="left"> |</div>
	required = 1
}
 
temp.MAINCONTENT < styles.content.get
temp.MAINCONTENT.stdWrap {
	wrap = <div id="main"> | </div>
	required = 1
}
 
temp.RIGHTCONTENT < styles.content.getRight
temp.RIGHTCONTENT.stdWrap {
	wrap = <div id="right"> | </div>
	required = 1
}

Assign the temp objects to available subparts in your HTML template file.

page.10 = TEMPLATE
page.10 {
 
	workOnSubpart = document
 
	subparts.leftcontent < temp.LEFTCONTENT
	subparts.maincontent < temp.MAINCONTENT
	subparts.rightcontent < temp.RIGHTCONTENT
 
}

More on styling these resulting areas soon …

I will post a few Typoscript snippets I use in a lot of projects over the next few weeks.

Basic configuration stuff

config {
  language = de
  locale_all = de_DE
  doctype = html5
  htmlTag_setParams = lang="de
  prologue = none
  metaCharset = utf-8
  htmlTag_langKey = de-DE
  linkVars = L
  sys_language_uid = 1
  spamProtectEmailAddresses = 1
  spamProtectEmailAddresses_atSubst =  (at) 
}

What this does is to set the language to german, define language url parameters for a multi language setup and try to protect standard email addresses.

More to come soon …

Theory is when you know something, but it doesn’t work. Practice is when something works, but you don’t know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don’t know why.

There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses

Bjarne Stroustrup

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. — Brian Kernighan