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1.4. Conditions

Condition reference

General notes

Values are normally trimmed for before comparison, so blanks are not taken into account.

You may combine several conditions with two operators: && (and), || (or)

Alternatively you may use "AND" and "OR" instead of "&&" and "||". The AND operator has always higher precedence over OR. If no operator has been specified, it will default to OR.

For full explanations about conditions, please refer to "TypoScript Syntax and In-depth Study".

Examples:

This condition will match if the visitor opens the website with Internet Explorer on Windows (but not on Mac)

[browser = msie] && [system = win]

This will match with either Opera or Firefox browsers

[browser = opera] || [browser = firefox]

This will match with either Internet Explorer or Netscape. In case of Netscape, the version must be above 4.

[browser = msie] || [browser = netscape] && [version => 4]

browser

Syntax:
[browser = browser1,browser2,...]

Browser:

Identification:

Amaya

amaya

AOL

aol

Avant

avant

Camino

camino

Google Chrome

chrome

Mozilla Firefox

firefox

Flock

flock

Gecko

gecko

Konqueror

konqueror

Lynx

lynx

NCSA Mosaic

mosaic

Microsoft Internet Explorer

msie

Navigator

navigator

Netscape Communicator

netscape

OmniWeb

omniweb

Opera

opera

Safari

safari

SeaMonkey

seamonkey

Webkit

webkit

?? (if none of the above was found in the user agent)

unknown

The condition works with the user agent string. The user agent is parsed with a regular expression, which searches the string for matches with the identifications named above. If there are multiple matches, the rightmost match is finally used, because it mostly is the most correct one.

An example user agent could look like this:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15

This string contains the identifications "Gecko" and "Firefox". The condition

[browser = firefox]

evaluates to true.

Older TYPO3 versions

Until TYPO3 4.2 the user agent was determined differently: Each value was compared with the ($browsername.$browserversion, e.g. "netscape4.72") using strstr(). So if the value was "netscape" or just "scape" or "net" all netscape browsers would match. If the value was "netscape4" all Netscape 4.xx browsers would match. If any value in the list matched the current browser, the condition returned true.

TYPO3 version 4.2 or older does not detect all the browsers listed above.

Examples:

This will match with Chrome and Opera-browsers:

[browser = chrome, opera]

version

Syntax:
[version = value1, >value2, =value3, <value4, ...]

Values are floating-point numbers with "." as the decimal separator.

The values may be preceded by three operators:

Operator:

Function:

 [nothing]

The value must be part of the beginning of the version as a string. This means that if the version is "4.72" and the value is "4" or "4.7" it matches. But "4.73" does not match.

Example from syntax: "value1"

=

The value must match exactly. Version "4.72" matches only with a value of "4.72"

>

The version must be greater than the value

<

The version must be less than the value

Examples:

This matches with exactly "4.03" browsers

[version=  =4.03]

This matches with all 4+ browsers and netscape 3 browsers

[version=  >4][browser= netscape3]

system

Syntax:
[system= system1,system2]

System:

Identification:

Linux

linux

SGI / IRIX

unix_sgi

SunOS

unix_sun

HP-UX

unix_hp

Macintosh

mac

Windows 3.11

win311

Windows NT

winNT

Windows 95

win95

Windows 98

win98

Amiga

amiga

Values are strings and a match happens if one of these strings is the first part of the system-identification.

Fx. if the value is "win9" this will match with "win95" and "win98" systems.

Examples:

This will match with windows and mac -systems only

[system= win,mac]

device

Syntax:
[device= device1, device2]

Device:

Identification:

HandHeld

pda

WAP phones

wap

Grabbers:

grabber

Indexing robots:

robot

Values are strings and a match happens if one of these strings equals the type of device

Examples:

This will match WAP-phones and PDA's

[device = wap, pda]

useragent

Syntax:
[useragent = agent]

This is a direct match on the useragent string from getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT")

You have the options of putting a "*" at the beginning and/or end of the value agent thereby matching with this wildcard!

Examples:

If the HTTP_USER_AGENT is "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; Lotus-Notes/5.0; Windows-NT)" this will match with it:

[useragent = Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; Lotus-Notes/5.0; Windows-NT)]

This will also match with it:

[useragent = *Lotus-Notes*]

... but this will also match with a useragent like this: "Lotus-Notes/4.5 ( Windows-NT )"

A short list of user-agent strings and a proper match:

HTTP_USER_AGENT:

Agent description:

Matching condition:

Nokia7110/1.0+(04.77)

Nokia 7110 WAP phone

[useragent= Nokia7110*]

Lotus-Notes/4.5 ( Windows-NT )

Lotus-Notes browser

[useragent= Lotus-Notes*]

Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; AvantGo 3.2)

AvantGo browser

[useragent= *AvantGo*]

Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; WebCapture 1.0; Auto; Windows)

Adobe Acrobat 4.0

[useragent= *WebCapture*]

These are some of the known WAP agents:

HTTP_USER_AGENT

HTTP_USER_AGENT (continued)

ALAV UP/4.0.7

Alcatel-BE3/1.0 UP/4.0.6c

AUR PALM WAPPER

Device V1.12

EricssonR320/R1A

fetchpage.cgi/0.53

Java1.1.8

Java1.2.2

m-crawler/1.0 WAP

Materna-WAPPreview/1.1.3

MC218 2.0 WAP1.1

Mitsu/1.1.A

MOT-CB/0.0.19 UP/4.0.5j

MOT-CB/0.0.21 UP/4.0.5m

Nokia-WAP-Toolkit/1.2

Nokia-WAP-Toolkit/1.3beta

Nokia7110/1.0 ()

Nokia7110/1.0 (04.67)

Nokia7110/1.0 (04.67)

Nokia7110/1.0 (04.69)

Nokia7110/1.0 (04.70)

Nokia7110/1.0 (04.71)

Nokia7110/1.0 (04.73)

Nokia7110/1.0 (04.74)

Nokia7110/1.0 (04.76)

Nokia7110/1.0 (04.77)

Nokia7110/1.0 (04.80)

Nokia7110/1.0 (30.05)

Nokia7110/1.0

PLM's WapBrowser

QWAPPER/1.0

R380 2.0 WAP1.1

SIE-IC35/1.0

SIE-P35/1.0 UP/4.1.2a

SIE-P35/1.0 UP/4.1.2a

UP.Browser/3.01-IG01

UP.Browser/3.01-QC31

UP.Browser/3.02-MC01

UP.Browser/3.02-SY01

UP.Browser/3.1-UPG1

UP.Browser/4.1.2a-XXXX

UPG1 UP/4.0.7

Wapalizer/1.0

Wapalizer/1.1

WapIDE-SDK/2.0; (R320s (Arial))

WAPJAG Virtual WAP

WAPJAG Virtual WAP

WAPman Version 1.1 beta:Build W2000020401

WAPman Version 1.1

Waptor 1.0

WapView 0.00

WapView 0.20371

WapView 0.28

WapView 0.37

WapView 0.46

WapView 0.47

WinWAP 2.2 WML 1.1

wmlb

YourWap/0.91

YourWap/1.16

Zetor

language

Syntax:
[language = lang1, lang2, ...]

The values must be a straight match with the value of getenv("HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE") from PHP. Alternatively, if the value is wrapped in "*" (eg. "*en-us*") then it will split all languages found in the HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE string and try to match the value with any of those parts of the string. Such a string normally looks like "de,en-us;q=0.7,en;q=0.3" and "*en-us*" would match with this string.

IP

Syntax:
[IP = ipaddress1, ipaddress2, ...]

The values are compared with the getenv("REMOTE_ADDR") from PHP.

You may include "*" instead of one of the parts in values. You may also list the first one, two or three parts and only they will be tested.

Examples:

These examples will match any IP-address starting with "123":

[IP = 123.*.*.*]

or

[IP = 123]

This examples will match any IP-address ending with "123" or being "192.168.1.34":

[IP = *.*.*.123][IP = 192.168.1.34]

hostname

Syntax:
[hostname = hostname1, hostname2, ...]

The values are compared to the fully qualified hostname of getenv("REMOTE_ADDR") retrieved by PHP.

Value is comma-list of domain names to match with. *-wildcard allowed but cannot be part of a string, so it must match the full host name (eg. myhost.*.com => correct, myhost.*domain.com => wrong)

hour

Syntax:
[hour = hour1, >hour2, <hour3, ...]

The values in floating point are compared with the current hour (24-hours-format) of the server.

Operator:

Function:

[nothing]

Requires exact match

>

The hour must be greater than the value

<

The hour must be less than the value

minute

See "Hour" above. Same syntax!

Syntax:
[minute = ...]

Minute of hour, 0-59

dayofweek

See "Hour" above. Same syntax!

Syntax:
[dayofweek = ...]

Day of week, starting with Sunday being 0 and Saturday being 6

dayofmonth

See "Hour" above. Same syntax!

Syntax:
[dayofmonth = ...]

Day of month, 1-31

month

See "Hour" above. Same syntax!

Syntax:
[month = ...]

Month, January being 1 and December being 12

dayofyear

See "Hour" above. Same syntax! For further information look at the date() function in the PHP manual, format string z.

Syntax:
[dayofyear = ...]

Day of year, 0-364 (or 365)

year

See "Hour" above. Same syntax! For further information look at the date() function in the PHP manual, format string Y.

Syntax:
[year = ...]

Year, as a 4-digit number

usergroup

Syntax:
[usergroup = group1-uid, group2-uid, ...]

The comparison can only return true if the grouplist is not empty (global var "gr_list").

The values must either exists in the grouplist OR the value must be a "*".

Example:

This matches all logins:

[usergroup = *]

This matches logins from users members of groups with uid's 1 and/or 2:

[usergroup = 1,2]

loginUser

Syntax:
[loginUser = fe_users-uid, fe_users-uid, ...]

Matches on the uid of a logged in frontend user. Works like 'usergroup' above including the * wildcard to select ANY user.

Example:

This matches any login (use this instead of "[usergroup = *]" to match when a user is logged in!):

[loginUser = *]

Additionally it is possible to check if no FE user is logged in.

Example:

This matches when no user is logged in:

[loginUser = ]

treeLevel

Syntax:
[treeLevel = levelnumber, levelnumber, ...]

This checks if the last element of the rootLine is at a level corresponding to one of the figures in "treeLevel". Level = 0 is the "root" of a website. Level=1 is the first menuen

Example:

This changes something with the template, if the page viewed is on level either level 0 (basic) or on level 2

[treeLevel = 0,2]

PIDinRootline

Syntax:
[PIDinRootline = pages-uid, pages-uid, ...]

This checks if one of the figures in "treeLevel" is a PID (pages-uid) in the rootline.

Example:

This changes something with the template, if the page viewed is or is a subpage to page 34 or page 36

[PIDinRootline = 34,36]

PIDupinRootline

Syntax:

[PIDupinRootline = pages-uid, pages-uid, ...]

Do the same as PIDinRootline, except the current page-uid is excluded from check.

compatVersion

Syntax:

[compatVersion = x.y.z]

Require a minimum compatibility version. This version is not necessary equal with the TYPO3 version, it is a configurable value that can be changed in the Upgrade Wizard of the Install Tool.

"compatVersion" is especially useful if you want to provide new default settings but keep the backwards compatibility for old versions of TYPO3.

globalVar

Syntax:
[globalVar = var1 = value1, var2 > value2, var3 < value3, var4 <= value4, var5 >= value5, var6 != value6, ...]

The values in floating point are compared to the global variables "var1", "var2" ... from above.

Operator:

Function:

=

Requires an exact match.

>

The var must be greater than the value.

<

The var must be less than the value.

<=

The var must be less than or equal to the value.

>=

The var mast be greater than or equal to the value.

!=

The var must be not equal to the value.

Examples:

This will match with a URL like "...&print=1":

[globalVar = GP:print > 0]

This will match, if the page-id is higher than or equal to 10:

[globalVar = TSFE:id >= 10] 

This will match, if the page-id is not equal to 316:

[globalVar = TSFE:id != 316] 

This will match the non-existing GET/POST variable "style":

[globalVar = GP:style = ]

This will match, if the GET/POST variable "L" equals 8 and the GET/POST variable "M" equals 2:

[globalVar = GP:L = 8, GP:M = 2]

This will match with the pages having the layout field set to "Layout 1":

[globalVar = TSFE:page|layout = 1]

If the constant {$constant_to_turnSomethingOn} is "1" then this matches:

[globalVar = LIT:1 = {$constant_to_turnSomethingOn}]

globalString

Syntax:
[globalString =   var1=value,  var2= *value2, var3= *value3*, ...]

This is a direct match on global strings.

You have the options of putting a "*" as a wildcard or using a PCRE style regular expression (must be wrapped in "/") to the value.

Examples:

If the HTTP_HOST is "www.typo3.com" this will match with:

[globalString = IENV:HTTP_HOST = www.typo3.com]

This will also match with it:

[globalString = IENV:HTTP_HOST = *typo3.com]

... but this will also match with a HTTP_HOST like this: "demo.typo3.com"

You can use values from global arrays and objects by dividing the var-name with a "|" (vertical line).

Examples:

The global var $HTTP_POST_VARS['key']['levels'] would be retrieved by "HTTP_POST_VARS|key|levels"

Also note that it's recommended to program your scripts in compliance with the php.ini-optimized settings. Please see that file (from your distribution) for details.

Caring about this means that you would get values like HTTP_HOST by getenv() and you would retrieve GET/POST values with t3lib_div::_GP(). Finally a lot of values from the TSFE object are useful. In order to get those values for comparison with "globalVar" and "globalString" conditions, you prefix that variable's name with either "IENV:"/"ENV:" , "GP:", "TSFE:" or "LIT:" respectively. Still the "|" divider may be used to separate keys in arrays and/or objects. "LIT" means "literal" and the string after ":" is trimmed and returned as the value (without being divided by "|" or anything)

Notice: Using the "IENV:" prefix is highly recommended to get server/environment variables which are system-independent. Basically this will get the value using t3lib_div::getIndpEnv(). With "ENV:" you get the raw output from getenv() which is NOT always the same on all systems!

Examples:

This will match with a remote-addr beginning with "192.168."

[globalString = IENV:REMOTE_ADDR = 192.168.*]

This will match with the user whose username is "test":

[globalString = TSFE:fe_user|user|username = test]

userFunc

Syntax:
[userFunc = user_match(checkLocalIP)]

This call the function "user_match" with the first parameter "checkLocalIP". You write that function. You decide what it checks. Function result is evaluated as true/false.

Example:

Put this function in your localconf.php file:

function user_match($cmd) {
switch($cmd) {
case 'checkLocalIP':
if (strstr(getenv('REMOTE_ADDR'), '192.168')) {
return TRUE;
}
break;
case 'checkSomethingElse':
// ....
break;
}
}

This condition will return true if the remote address contains "192.168" - which is what your function finds out.

[userFunc = user_match(checkLocalIP)]