TCA, Model and Fluid Partial to display FAL images as a simple gallery using TYPO3 and Extbase 6.1

gistfile1.php

SQL:
images int(11) unsigned DEFAULT '0',
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TCA
....
'images' => array(
	'exclude' => 0,
	'label' => 'images',
	'config' => \TYPO3\CMS\Core\Utility\ExtensionManagementUtility::getFileFieldTCAConfig(
		'images',
		array(
			'appearance' => array(
		                'headerThumbnail' => array(
		                	'width' => '100',
		                	'height' => '100',
	                	),
	                'createNewRelationLinkTitle' => 'LLL:EXT:your_extension/Resources/Private/Language/locallang_db.xlf:tx_yourextension_db_table.add-images'
	            	),
			// custom configuration for displaying fields in the overlay/reference table
			// to use the imageoverlayPalette instead of the basicoverlayPalette
			'foreign_types' => array(
				'0' => array(
					'showitem' => '
						--palette--;LLL:EXT:lang/locallang_tca.xlf:sys_file_reference.imageoverlayPalette;imageoverlayPalette,
						--palette--;;filePalette'
				),
				\TYPO3\CMS\Core\Resource\File::FILETYPE_TEXT => array(
					'showitem' => '
						--palette--;LLL:EXT:lang/locallang_tca.xlf:sys_file_reference.imageoverlayPalette;imageoverlayPalette,
						--palette--;;filePalette'
				),
				\TYPO3\CMS\Core\Resource\File::FILETYPE_IMAGE => array(
					'showitem' => '
						--palette--;LLL:EXT:lang/locallang_tca.xlf:sys_file_reference.imageoverlayPalette;imageoverlayPalette,
						--palette--;;filePalette'
				),
				\TYPO3\CMS\Core\Resource\File::FILETYPE_AUDIO => array(
					'showitem' => '
						--palette--;LLL:EXT:lang/locallang_tca.xlf:sys_file_reference.imageoverlayPalette;imageoverlayPalette,
						--palette--;;filePalette'
				),
				\TYPO3\CMS\Core\Resource\File::FILETYPE_VIDEO => array(
					'showitem' => '
						--palette--;LLL:EXT:lang/locallang_tca.xlf:sys_file_reference.imageoverlayPalette;imageoverlayPalette,
						--palette--;;filePalette'
				),
				\TYPO3\CMS\Core\Resource\File::FILETYPE_APPLICATION => array(
					'showitem' => '
						--palette--;LLL:EXT:lang/locallang_tca.xlf:sys_file_reference.imageoverlayPalette;imageoverlayPalette,
						--palette--;;filePalette'
				)
			),
		),
		$GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['GFX']['imagefile_ext']
	)
),
...
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Model:
/**
 * images to use in the gallery
 *
 * @var \TYPO3\CMS\Extbase\Persistence\ObjectStorage<\TYPO3\CMS\Extbase\Domain\Model\FileReference>
 * @lazy
 */
protected $images;

/**
 * __construct
 *
 * @return AbstractObject
 */
public function __construct() {
	$this->images = new \TYPO3\CMS\Extbase\Persistence\ObjectStorage();
}

/**
 * sets the Images
 *
 * @param \TYPO3\CMS\Extbase\Persistence\ObjectStorage $images
 *
 * @return void
 */
public function setImages($images) {
	$this->images = $images;
}

/**
 * get the Images
 *
 * @return \TYPO3\CMS\Extbase\Persistence\ObjectStorage
 */
public function getImages() {
	return $this->images;
}
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Fluid View (this is a Partial, providing all images with a link to open it in a lightbox, classic clickenlarge):
<f:for each="{images}" as="image" >
	<a href="{f:uri.image(src:image.uid,treatIdAsReference:1)}" class="lightbox" rel="gallery">
		<f:image src="{image.uid}" alt="{image.originalResorce.alternative}" width='101' height="67" treatIdAsReference="1"/>
	</a >
</f:for >

Here some additions to add your own translation/text for the "Create new relation" text and some other visual tweaks:

\TYPO3\CMS\Core\Utility\ExtensionManagementUtility::getFileFieldTCAConfig('images', array(
            'appearance' => array(
                'headerThumbnail' => array(
                    'width' => '100',
                    'height' => '100',
                ),
                'createNewRelationLinkTitle' => 'LLL:EXT:your_extension/Resources/Private/Language/locallang_db.xlf:tx_yourextension_db_table.add-images'
            )
        ), 'jpg,jpeg,png'),

What I miss here is an Image domain model facade which

• hides the complexity of \TYPO3\CMS\Extbase\Domain\Model\FileReference
• uses domain specific language (DSL)

This would make the domain classes and template more readable.

I made a simple extension "newsfal" (downloadable on TER) to add the support of FAL to news under TYPO3.x. It works under similar conventions.

Sorry to say, but your extension doesn't really work with the current systems (news 2.3.0 and TYPO3 6.1) anymore. I also took a look at the code and it isn't even close to standard conventions tbh.

Works perfectly on T3 6.1.7 or 6.1.8!
Thanks!

Thanks for those helpful code examples. Tried this out but got into nasty translation issues.

When transating records and adding/modifying images the sys_language_uid value will always be set back to 0. In BE everything looks(!) fine, actually the relations are now broken. Trying to render the images of a translated record in FE will fail as the language uid of the file relation is now wrong.

Any idea how to solve this? At least translation handling of images works for standard CEs, so there should be a way to do it correctly for user created objects.

Using TYPO3 6.2.3

Using the code above in Typo3 6.2.9, i get the following error message:
ForViewHelper only supports arrays and objects implementing \Traversable interface

Any idea how to solve this?

Got the "array" problem also - here is a newer version builded with extension builder ->

https://gist.github.com/koenig-digital/45b3bd8c5a28460148ca

Builder creates files as one file relation: \TYPO3\CMS\Extbase\Domain\Model\FileReference, In TCA maxitems=1 only.
If you need more than one file, you should change model to use: \TYPO3\CMS\Extbase\Persistence\ObjectStorage and fix in TCA.