Hi!
I'm searching for a solution, to build a frontend form from the TCA.php of my TYPO3 extension.
Is there any way, to select TCA.php values, from my extension Class? I want to build a select-element with values of the TCA.php file.
Would be amazing, if someone could give me some advice :)
We use the wil_frontendedit extension to do this. It has basic validation and some other tricks. Front end forms in typo3 are historically a pain, and there are 10 different modules/ways to generate them.
TCA is globally available. You can select any table configuration (TCA) by using the GLOBAL variable. For example, TCA for normal content (tt_content) can be found inside
$GLOBALS['TCA']['tt_content']
TCA holds the entire table configuration, if you want to see all of it I suggest you simply print_r() the configuration of the table you would like to see.
The configuration for each field inside a table is stored in
$GLOBALS['TCA']['TABLENAME']['columns']['COLUMNNAME']
If a TCA is not yet loaded, you can load it manually with the following command:
t3lib_div::loadTCA('TABLENAME');
This should help you on your way.