This page is document in progress. TypoScript
getText is an advanced TypoScript datatype. It enables you to access almost any data in the TYPO3 system. getText is so flexible, that it deserves it’s own page and hopefully some day this page will have enough information to be pointed to by the TSref.
It is defined in typo3/sysext/cms/tslib/class.tslib_content.php function getData.
Luckily this datatype is available everywhere, where a property has the addition stdWrap. Namely the stdWrap.data and the stdWrap.dataWrap properties. If stdWrap.insertData is set to 1, then also the property itself is parsed similar as .dataWrap is. (continue reading…)