Since the TYPOlight changed name to Contao and I have got some modules to create, I decided to tweak the TYPOlight Extension Creator module and replace all occurences of “TYPOlight” with its new name (mainly in copyright notes).
Let’s assume we want to display the number of cds in each category in our CD collection. To do that, we could create an additional field in the table, which would store the information. That’s a good idea because of a better performance (and we will take a look at it in the future), but for now I want to show you how to use a label_callback.
I have recently been develepoing a football club website for one of my clients. There’s a table league which holds a data like teams’ points and number of played matches. I decided to fetch data from the external webiste, instead of forcing my client to update the table manually.