TYPO3 Core

This problem still exists in 4.4.

An easy solution would be to add the "root" field to the "order by" part of the query. See my patch.

Thanks for your patch, Michel!

Can you post it to the core team mailinglist to get this into the TYPO3 sources?
See http://typo3.org/teams/core/core-mailinglist-rules/

Patch is not working in every case. When you have two extension templates the latter one is always being ignored.

You can test it yourself by providing an extension template with simply

page >

inside. If this template isn't the very first one it is ignored and doesn't have an effect whilst it breaks the page when it is.

Tested in 4.3 and 4.4.

Patch not working as it doesn't fix this problem.

The patch only assures that the "root" template will be loaded if present. This does not change the fact that TYPO3 only uses one template per page. This seems to be the normal behavior (maybe not good). Changing this behavior could probably cause problems on some existing sites.

Am I right?

If you should not use more than one template you shouldn't be able to pick more than one.
And, furthermore, you do use more than one template, if you pick "include basis template". I would expect the same behavior here.

Markus, the behavior you described is a long-standing one: indeed, TYPO3 considers only the first template (extension or root) on a given page. I agree that it is confusing given that it's possible to define as many template records as you want. Still this is not related to this bug IMO, which is about making the root templates take precedence over the extension templates. In this regards the patch works for me.

A possible solution to the multiple template problem could be to show those extra template in the Template Analyzer and indicated that they are being ignored. But this would be a separate issue anyway.

Patch set 2 for branch master of project Packages/TYPO3.CMS has been pushed to the review server.
It is available at http://review.typo3.org/34319