How-to create dynamic XML for Flash menu based on TYPO3 pagetree

Русская версия статьи / Russian version

TYPO3 features not limited to HTML pages, you can provide user with any type of web content. It’s absolutely not required to install special extension for XML-based content, but there are lots of them in TYPO3-repository.

I not like use extensions, if there exists TYPO3-solution with typoscript. Here I will provide example how to generate XML with pagetree data for Flash menu. Using this technique you can crate any type of XML-data, Google Sitemaps, WML, etc.

XML for Flash menu application looks something like this:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<menu>
  <item url="index.php?id=1" title="Page 1" />
  <item url="index.php?id=2" title="Page 2" />
  <item url="index.php?id=3" title="Page 3">
    <item url="index.php?id=4" title="Page 3-1" />
    <item url="index.php?id=5" title="Page 3-2" />
    <item url="index.php?id=6" title="Page 3-3">
  </item>
  <item url="index.php?id=7" title="Page 4"/>
</menu>

Typoscipt for generating this XML:

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########################################
# PAGETREE TO XML
########################################
xmlmenu = PAGE
xmlmenu.typeNum = 111
# Disable all standard header generation by TYPO3
xmlmenu.config.disableAllHeaderCode = 1
# Setup correct content type header for XML
xmlmenu.config.additionalHeaders = Content-Type: application/xml
 
# Output XML header
xmlmenu.10 = TEXT
xmlmenu.10.value = <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
xmlmenu.10.postCObject = TEXT
xmlmenu.10.postCObject.char = 10
 
# Output XML data of pagetree
xmlmenu.20 = HMENU
xmlmenu.20 {
 wrap = <menu>|</menu>
 entryLevel = 0
 1 = TMENU
 1 {
  expAll = 1
  NO {
   doNoShowLink = 1
   allStdWrap.cObject = COA
   allStdWrap.cObject.10 = TEXT
   allStdWrap.cObject.10.typolink.parameter.field = uid
   allStdWrap.cObject.10.typolink.returnLast = url
   allStdWrap.cObject.10.noTrimWrap = |<item url="|" |
   allStdWrap.cObject.20 = TEXT 
   allStdWrap.cObject.20.field = nav_title // title
   allStdWrap.cObject.20.wrap = title="|"/>
  }
 
# We need too surround subitems with <item></item>
  IFSUB < .NO
  IFSUB = 1
  IFSUB {
# Added closing </item>
   wrapItemAndSub = |</item>
# Raplace <item ... /> with <item ...>
   allStdWrap.cObject.20.wrap = title="|">
  }
 }
 
 2 < .1
 3 < .1
 4 < .1
 5 < .1
}

Flash application can now access XML data with address “index.php?type=111″

You can add content output into TYPO3 if required, and use this for Full Flash sites and use TYPO3 as your backend.

So, no extensions, just TYPO3 and typoscript…

P.S.: Dear, Readers, if you interested in English versions of articles about TYPO3 and TYPO3 snippets please let me know. Leave comments in my blog.

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One Response to “How-to create dynamic XML for Flash menu based on TYPO3 pagetree”

  1. Создаем XML дерева страниц TYPO3 для Flash меню at Codeline  on May 22nd, 2008

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