/**
* Collects all pages for the selected categories, sorted according to configuration.
*
* @param string $selectedCategories Comma-separated list of system categories primary keys
* @param array $configuration TypoScript configuration for the "special." keyword
* @param \TYPO3\CMS\Frontend\ContentObject\Menu\AbstractMenuContentObject $parentObject Back-reference to the calling object
* @return string List of selected pages
*/
public function collectPages($selectedCategories, $configuration, $parentObject)
{
$selectedPages = array();
$categoriesPerPage = array();
// Determine the name of the relation field
$relationField = '';
if (isset($configuration['relation.'])) {
$relationField = $parentObject->parent_cObj->stdWrap($configuration['relation'], $configuration['relation.']);
} elseif (isset($configuration['relation'])) {
$relationField = $configuration['relation'];
}
// Get the pages for each selected category
$selectedCategories = GeneralUtility::intExplode(',', $selectedCategories, TRUE);
foreach ($selectedCategories as $aCategory) {
$collection = CategoryCollection::load($aCategory, TRUE, 'pages', $relationField);
$categoryUid = 0;
if ($collection instanceof AbstractRecordCollection) {
$categoryUid = $collection->getUid();
}
// Loop on the results, overlay each page record found
foreach ($collection as $pageItem) {
$parentObject->getSysPage()->versionOL('pages', $pageItem, TRUE);
if (is_array($pageItem)) {
$selectedPages[$pageItem['uid']] = $parentObject->getSysPage()->getPageOverlay($pageItem);
// Keep a list of the categories each page belongs to
if (!isset($categoriesPerPage[$pageItem['uid']])) {
$categoriesPerPage[$pageItem['uid']] = array();
}
$categoriesPerPage[$pageItem['uid']][] = $categoryUid;
}
}
}
// Loop on the selected pages to add the categories they belong to, as comma-separated list of category uid's)
// (this makes them available for rendering, if needed)
foreach ($selectedPages as $uid => $pageRecord) {
$selectedPages[$uid]['_categories'] = implode(',', $categoriesPerPage[$uid]);
}
// Sort the pages according to the sorting property
self::$sortingField = isset($configuration['sorting.']) ? $parentObject->getParentContentObject()->stdWrap($configuration['sorting'], $configuration['sorting.']) : $configuration['sorting'];
$order = isset($configuration['order.']) ? $parentObject->getParentContentObject()->stdWrap($configuration['order'], $configuration['order.']) : $configuration['order'];
$selectedPages = $this->sortPages($selectedPages, $order);
return $selectedPages;
}
