TYPO3 Extension md_news_author

This extension is based on extbase & fluid and provides the famous extension ext:news of Georg Ringer (thanks a lot @georgringer !) with one or more authors. You can centrally manage authors and attach them to news records. The extensions comes with two plugins, one for listing all authors and one for the detail page of an author which also shows the news records of the selected author.

Requirements

• TYPO3 >= 12.4
• ext:news >= 10.0
• ext:numbered_pagination >= 1.0.1

Installation

• Install the extension by using the extension manager or use composer (composer req mediadreams/md_news_author)
• Include the static TypoScript of the extension
• Configure the extension by setting your own constants

Usage

Create authors and attach them to news records

• Create some author records on a sysfolder (use list modul, push plus-icon Create new record and select News Author)
• Create a news record on a sysfolder and find the new tab Author
• Select one or more authors for the news record
• Save and close

List authors

Insert paginated list of all authors.

• Create a plugin News author: Author list on a page
• Choose for Page with single author view the page with single author view
• Select the sysfolder where the author records are stored
• Additional settings can be found in the tab List view settings
• If needed, show authors of certain categories only (tab Categories)
• Save and close

Authors detail page

Insert an author detail view. This page includes also all news which are associated with the choosen author.

• Create a plugin News author: Show author on a page
• Optionally choose for Page with author list the page with the list of all authors
• Select the sysfolder where the author records are stored
• Additional settings can be found in the tab Detail view settings
• Save and close

Show author in ext:news view

• Access the author properties in a news record with {newsItem.newsAuthor}. Since there could be more than one author attached to a news record, you have to iterate:

<f:for each="{newsItem.newsAuthor}" as="author">
    {md:ShowAuthorName(author: author)}
    {author.phone}
    {author. ...}
</f:for>

• Add a link to the profile page

Don't forget to load the viewhelper {namespace md=Mediadreams\MdNewsAuthor\ViewHelpers}:

<f:for each="{newsItem.newsAuthor}" as="author">
    <f:link.action action="show" controller="NewsAuthor" extensionName="mdnewsauthor" pluginName="show" arguments="{newsAuthor: author}" pageUid="{settings.newsAuthor.authorDetailPid}" title="More about {md:ShowAuthorName(author:'{author}')}">
        <md:ShowAuthorName author="{author}" />
    </f:link.action>
</f:for>

Page TSconfig

In order to show only authors of a single page in the "Authors"-tab of a news record, you can use the following TSconfig:

TCEFORM.tx_news_domain_model_news.news_author.PAGE_TSCONFIG_STR = 1

This will show only the author records, which are stored on page ID = 1

routeEnhancers

routeEnhancers:
  NewsAuthorList:
    type: Extbase
    extension: MdNewsAuthor
    plugin: list
    routes:
      -
        routePath: 'page-{page}'
        _controller: 'NewsAuthor::list'
        _arguments:
          slug: 'newsAuthor'
          page: 'currentPage'
      -
        routePath: '/a-z/{letter}'
        _controller: 'NewsAuthor::list'
        _arguments:
          'letter': 'selectedLetter'
    defaultController: 'NewsAuthor::list'
    requirements:
      page: '\d+'
    defaults:
      page: '0'
    aspects:
      page:
        type: StaticRangeMapper
        start: '1'
        end: '100'
      letter:
        type: StaticValueMapper
        map:
          a: A
          b: B
          c: C
          d: D
          e: E
          f: F
          g: G
          h: H
          i: I
          j: J
          k: K
          l: L
          m: M
          n: N
          o: O
          p: P
          q: Q
          r: R
          s: S
          t: T
          u: U
          v: V
          w: W
          x: X
          y: Y
          z: Z
  NewsAuthorShow:
    type: Extbase
    extension: MdNewsAuthor
    plugin: show
    routes:
      - 
        routePath: '{slug}'
        _controller: 'NewsAuthor::show'
        _arguments:
          slug: 'newsAuthor'
      -
        routePath: '{slug}/articles-{page}'
        _controller: 'NewsAuthor::show'
        _arguments:
          slug: 'newsAuthor'
          page: 'currentPage'
    defaultController: 'NewsAuthor::show'
    requirements:
      slug: '^[a-zA-Z0-9].*$'
      page: '\d+'
    defaults:
      page: '0'
    aspects:
      slug:
        type: PersistedAliasMapper
        tableName: 'tx_mdnewsauthor_domain_model_newsauthor'
        routeFieldName: 'slug'
      page:
        type: StaticRangeMapper
        start: '1'
        end: '100'

Bugs and Known Issues

If you find a bug, it would be nice if you add an issue on Github.

THANKS

Thanks a lot to all who make this outstanding TYPO3 project possible!

Credits

Icons used by this extension are kindly take from Font Awesome (user and users ).