When I first started using TYPO3, I would write extensions for all of the extra functionality I needed. Eventually my extension list got quite long and some extensions I was writing were very simple and didn't really need all the overhead of the extension class. I started using PHP_SCRIPT_INT instead of creating new extensions, but this created another problem: now I had a bunch of include scripts! So I started grouping related scripts into one include script and using a key to determine which code in the script to run. This became even more useful when I made the key a typoscript object so I could use other things like GET/POST or session variables to determine which function in the include script to use. Here's an example of a simple include script:
<?php
if (!is_object($this)) die ('Error: No parent object present.');
$key = $this->cObjGetSingle($conf['key'],$conf['key.']);
switch ($key) {
case "1":
$content = 'case 1';
break;
case "2":
$content = 'case 2';
break;
default:
$content = 'default';
break;
}
?>
You can then use the script in typoscript:
10 = PHP_SCRIPT_INT
10 {
file = fileadmin/my_include_script.inc
key = TEXT
key.data = GP:case
}
