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I would like to add that I`d love to have stdWrap properties for e. g. excludeUidList.. This might be a solution for the original problem as well.

I've attached a small helper for t3lib_div that may come in handy for all kind of lists (eg HMENU special=list special.value=1,2,3,4,...)

See t3lib_div:expandList().

Yes, also nice would be resolving aliases in "special.value" and other uid-lists.

It makes no sense to me to hard-code "uids" in TypoScript. If I export/import the page structure, the ids might be different and I have to adapt the uidlists. Aliases are there for this, aren't they? "home", "servicemenu" etc.

Ernesto Baschny wrote:

Yes, also nice would be resolving aliases in "special.value" and other uid-lists.

This would be fantastic! Could you write a patch for it?

cheers,
Ingmar

To be consistent resolving of aliases should be done in all UID properties, not only lists, eg in pi_base.

I don't think pi_base should be doing alias translation or any other "magic" on uid-lists. If a extension developer needs this functionality, he can call getPageIdFromAlias() himself (which would be nice thing e.g. in tt_news for all those page-id settings)

But with TypoScript there is currently no way to have this done if PHP doesn't do it. So I think we should just find TS-properties where the user is expected to pass uid's or uid-lists and make them all "alias" and maybe "range" compatible.

The places that I've found so far:

>select.uidInList
>select.pidInList
->typolink.parameter (already doing alias-conversion)

- config.MP_mapRootPoints (allows "root" magic word, so we shouldn't be trying to do alias conversions here
- config.typolinkLinkAccessRestrictedPages (allows "NONE" magic word, which cannot be an alias (upper-case). But can we do alias-checking in "config." already?)
- HMENU.special.value
- HMENU.excludeUidList
- HMENU.alwaysActivePIDlist
- HMENU.special.[item].uid (in special=browse)

Ok, I haven't found any other.

And finally we need a stdWrap function to convert an alias to an uid, so that we can use this functionality on any other property that is already being stdWrapped. Imagine that tt_news passes $conf['backPid.'] through stdWrap:

plugin.tt_news.backPid = newsarchive
plugin.tt_news.backPid.asPidList = 1

which would instruct stdWrap to consider the property as a list of uids and it would then translate aliases, translate ranges, etc and return a proper comma-separated list of UIDs back to the caller.

Patch set 1 of change I6d25e0ccac47218445713f3b491a2109188ca579 has been pushed to the review server.
It is available at http://review.typo3.org/2585

Patch set 2 of change I6d25e0ccac47218445713f3b491a2109188ca579 has been pushed to the review server.
It is available at http://review.typo3.org/2585

Patch set 3 of change I6d25e0ccac47218445713f3b491a2109188ca579 has been pushed to the review server.
It is available at http://review.typo3.org/2585

Patch set 4 of change I6d25e0ccac47218445713f3b491a2109188ca579 has been pushed to the review server.
It is available at http://review.typo3.org/2585