TYPO3 - the Enterprise Open Source CMS: Documentation: Extend the constant editor & Settings in EM (EXT: Extend the Constant Editor & settings of exts inside the EM)

Chapter 1. EXT: Extend the Constant Editor & settings of exts inside the EM

Extension Key: constantsextended

Language: en

Keywords: constant editor, constants, extension manager settings

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The content of this document is related to TYPO3

- a GNU/GPL CMS/Framework available from www.typo3.org

1.1. Introduction

What does it do?

This extension is for other extension developers only and doesn't produce any output! It allows other developers to have more available options inside the Constant Editor and the settings for extensions which can be done in the Extension Manager.

Current Available options are:

Textarea
Page selector,using the popup to select a page
A record selector, using any table you like displayed as select field
Plain image
Iframe
Plain HTML code

Screenshots

The screenshots should show an example how it can look like.

Image 1: Extended Constant Editor

Image 2: Extended settings in the Extension Manager