In this article you will find out how to use Asynchronous Javascript And XML in your Contao modules. To communicate between the frontend and database, we will use the built-in MooTools framework, that is attached to every page template by default. (more…)
It’s been a while since my last post, but haven’t got inspiration to write new ones. I have recently started a new big project in Contao, so I will share my latest revelations about development in this CMS. In this post I will show you how to use code from module1 in module2, without writing it again.
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).
Recent news says that TYPOlight from upcoming version 2.9 changes its name to Contao. To read what Contao means, and why developers decided to change name please click here.
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.