Feature #98135
Updated by Lidia Demin over 1 year ago
“A content block is defined as a small chunk of information, which is connected to a view and then rendered in the TYPO3 frontend.” _The Structured Content Initiative_ This feature describes merge of "EXT:mask":https://extensions.typo3.org/extension/mask and "EXT:contentblocks_reg_api":https://extensions.typo3.org/extension/contentblocks_reg_api as a TYPO3 core component "TYPO3 Content Blocks", in order to empower integrators/ developers with limited TYPO3 knowledge (e.g. beginners, frontend-only developers) to easily define CTypes via a configuration file or via a GUI. h2. Description of the new system extension * Name: TYPO3 Content Blocks * Module name: Content Blocks ** GER: Inhaltstypen * Extension key: typo3/cms-content-blocks The new system extension TYPO3 Content Blocks provides a registration API that is able to detect and register a required content block, as well as a GUI to kickstart a content block. A content block is a composer package of type @typo3-contentblock@, @typo3-cms-contentblock@, that ships everything it needs within itself. A content block represents a CType The registration API applies the "facette pattern":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facade_pattern approach to generate TYPO3 specific configuration based on the editor interface definition of a content block.