TypoScript can be so useful sometimes! In this example I will display how we can create a nice output of any record in the front-end. And all this without the use of any silly extension.

If you're not aware of the capabilities of TypoScript, you would start looking in the repository for something usable. I immedeatly remember using something simular for getting a content element from a different page, and displaying it. Combining this with a COA_INT, to prevent caching of the element, I was able to do this in under 5 minutes with only 15 lines of TypoScript code (including marker assignment).

The idea for the project was to generate an alphabetical list of products for a tt_products webshop. To make the process list the right products I extended the search a little with a new functionality. However this was not really the challenge! The challenge came with writing the navigation for this. I wanted to do this entirely with TypoScript. And I (we, got a little help from Pim Broens ;-)) did it!