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!

Imagine all the time you will put into trying to reverse engineer what the DBAL wrapper function you use is trying to generate, when we could just print ANY query that was generated with ANY one of the DBAL wrappers!

Now it's very well possible that you are not familiar with IRC, it's pretty old-skool and it's not so widely used anymore. Old-skool as it may be, getting started with is not so hard. All you need is a PC or Mac with an internet connection and an IRC client. I can recommend mIRC as one of the nicer clients around. It has a lot of features but is still easy to use.

This was the moment I decided that I would do something about this! So I opened Photoshop and sat there for hours, just looking at the screen. Anyone who will actually believe that is a fool :-)