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user6800816

Reputation: 543

TYPO3: Difference between Plugin and Custom Content Element?

I have to implement a media download feature. The backend user should be able to upload a media file, set the title, description, release date and so on... The result should then be visible and the file available for download in the frontend.

I am not sure what is the best way to achieve this: Plugin or Custom content element ? Whats the main difference between the two and what would be the best solution for my task ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1012

Answers (3)

Paul Beck
Paul Beck

Reputation: 2683

Plugins are used for more complex rendering of records with different views (for example a list and a detail view of records stored somewhere in a storage folder). A custom content element (CE) should be preferred if all relevant data is stored in the record.

For your case, a Content Element seems to be the right solution. This kind of custom content elements can also be easily created with helpful extensions like "mask" which may takes you 10 minutes to create a custom CE. https://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/mask

Upvotes: 1

christoph
christoph

Reputation: 1

1) You can use the "File Link" content element and adapt its TypoScript (tt_content.uploads.20.renderObj) to your needs.

2) You can use the file_list extension and adapt its Fluid templates to your needs

Upvotes: 0

A. wolo Wolski
A. wolo Wolski

Reputation: 156

If I understood you properly. You can define plugin as type of "list_type", or as "CType" (if you need to code specific function, which is hard or unable to achieve using eg. Fluid contents) or even as another menu type defined as "menu_type".

These all types can be the same way made plugin, this separation for types are basically only for making it appear in different selectors. So:

  • your plugin defined as menu_type is to be selected in "Special Menus" content type in "Menu type" selector,
  • defined as list_type (so called) is to be selected in "Insert Plugin" content in "Selected plugin" selector,
  • defined as CType is totally new content type.

But they work the same way and this is easily to be switched using parameter in ext_tables plugin register call:

\TYPO3\CMS\Core\Utility\ExtensionManagementUtility::addPlugin( ['Label', $_EXTKEY.'_myPluginSuffix'], 'CType');

Upvotes: 1

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