Content elements

Insert via Create new content → Plugins. Five plugins are available, each replacing a legacy CASABLANCA JavaScript widget with SSR-rendered HTML, local ARI cache lookups, and PCI-safe IBE redirect handover.

Prerequisites

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Before content elements show real data on the frontend:

1. Backend configuration — save credentials in Tools → CASABLANCA Booking for the current TYPO3 site identifier.
2. Sync — run Sync now (or wait for the scheduler) so room types, rates, and availability are cached locally.
3. Site sets — the site config.yaml must include casablanca/booking (and typically typo3/fluid-styled-content) so TypoScript and assets load.

If configuration is missing, plugins show a friendly not configured message. A 503 Oops, an error occurred on the frontend usually means a PHP error — check var/log/ and flush caches after updating the extension.

Shared General settings

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Most plugins share fields on the General FlexForm sheet. Configure once per content element; defaults come from TypoScript and the backend module (see Reference).

FlexForm key	Type	Default	Effect
settings.defaultRooms	int	1	Pre-selected room count (1–5) for multi-room forms. Each room gets its own adult/child fields. Widget and Search Bar only.
settings.defaultAdults	int	2	Default adults per room (1–10). Used to pre-fill forms (Widget, Search Bar) or IBE handover (Room Types, Packages).
settings.defaultChildren	int	0	Default children per room (0–10). Set to 0 to hide child age inputs on forms. Widget and Search Bar only.
settings.defaultChildrenAges	string	(empty)	Comma-separated ages (e.g. 4,8). Used when children > 0. Padded with 0 for missing ages.
settings.language	select	Auto	IBE culture on handover: de, en, it, fr, or Auto (site default).
settings.ibeLinkTarget	select	_self	_self = same window; _blank = new tab (requires JavaScript). Form fallback always uses same window.
settings.windowDays	int	90	Look-ahead window in days (7–180) for calendar rendering or from-price lookup.
settings.appearance	select	default	Layout style: default, inherit, compact. See Theming.

Texts sheet (editors)

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Each plugin has a Texts FlexForm sheet for heading and primary call-to-action labels. Empty = default translation for the current site language (from locallang.xlf). Occupancy labels (Adults, Children), legend, loading messages, and errors are not FlexForm fields — see Localization.

Custom FlexForm text applies to all language versions of that content element (langDisable = 1). Per-language wording uses XLF or TypoScript _LOCAL_LANG.

Availability calendar (Widget)

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Plugin key: casablancabooking_widget
Replaces: Buchbarkeitskalender (legacy JS widget)

Purpose

Full availability calendar with month grid, per-day prices, date-range selection, multi-room occupancy sidebar, optional offer selection, and IBE handover. Data is fetched live from the CASABLANCA API on demand; the local sync cache provides SSR seed data and SEO JSON-LD.

Typical placement

• Dedicated booking page
• Room landing pages (with room pre-selection)
• Embedded detail calendar on room pages (via Room Types plugin)

General sheet (Widget-specific)

FlexForm key	Type	Default	Effect
settings.preselectRoomCategory	select	(none)	Restrict calendar to one room type. Options populated after sync. Useful for room-specific landing pages.
settings.calendarInitialMonths	select	1	Months visible on first load: current month only (1) or current + next (2). Additional months load via nav.
settings.calendarOfferMode	select	none	Offers shown after date selection: none, rates_only, packages_only, packages_and_rates
settings.showEnquiryButton	checkbox	0	Show enquiry button beside Book button. Requires enquiryUrl.
settings.enquiryUrl	string	(empty)	Target URL for enquiry button (contact form, request page).
settings.enquiryLinkTarget	select	_self	_self or _blank for enquiry link.

Offer subtitles in the sidebar list the catering / board type when the synced rate provides one (from API cateringType). Empty or Undefined values are omitted.

Plus all shared General settings <content-elements-shared-general> except windowDays is labelled Calendar window (days) here.

Texts sheet:

settings.labels.heading	string	(empty)	Calendar heading. Empty = widget.heading.default or room name.
settings.labels.bookNow	string	(empty)	Book button. Empty = widget.calendar.bookNow.
settings.labels.enquiry	string	(empty)	Enquiry button. Empty = widget.calendar.enquiry.

Occupancy (Widget)

• Supports 1–5 rooms via defaultRooms.
• Each room has independent adults, children, and per-child age inputs.
• JavaScript steppers in the calendar sidebar allow live adjustment.
• On submit, occupancy is passed to the IBE as rooms_N__adults, rooms_N__children, and age parameters.
• When a room type is pre-selected, occupancy is clamped to that room's maxOccupancy from the synced mirror.

Date selection and minimum stay (Widget)

The availability calendar loads live date data from the CASABLANCA API (CalendarDates). Each day includes minLengthOfStay from the booking engine — this is not a TYPO3 FlexForm setting.

When a guest selects an arrival day, the widget stores that day's minLengthOfStay. If the departure click would result in fewer nights, JavaScript extends the range to the minimum allowed stay (see pickToDate / data-cb-min-stay in widget.js). Example: arrival with minimum stay 4 and a departure click 2 nights later → 4 nights are selected.

Days with minLengthOfStay > 1 appear in the Restrictions apply legend. There is no editor setting to override minimum stay in the widget; change restrictions in CASABLANCA (PMS / rate rules) and re-sync or wait for the live calendar fetch to reflect updates.

Search bar uses a separate default: changing arrival auto-fills departure as arrival + 7 nights (form convenience only). Calendar widgets always use API minLengthOfStay per arrival day.

Search bar

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Plugin key: casablancabooking_searchbar
Replaces: Header booking snippet

Purpose

Compact arrival/departure/occupancy form without a calendar grid. Submits directly to the IBE via HTTP 303 redirect. Ideal for site headers, hero sections, and sticky booking bars.

Typical placement

• Site header / navigation bar
• Homepage hero
• Sidebar booking snippet

FlexForm settings

Uses the shared General settings <content-elements-shared-general> except:

• No windowDays (no calendar)
• No room pre-selection
• No calendar/offer/enquiry options

Appearance sheet: settings.appearance (default / inherit / compact). Use inherit in headers — see Theming.

Texts sheet: settings.labels.heading (empty = searchbar.heading), settings.labels.submit (empty = searchbar.submit).

Compact occupancy: settings.compactOccupancy (checkbox, default on). When enabled, the frontend shows one row: arrival, departure, guest icon, and search button. Rooms, adults, and children appear in a collapsible panel below when the editor or guest clicks the icon. Disable to keep the legacy layout with all occupancy fields visible in the form grid.

Occupancy (Search Bar)

Same multi-room model as the Widget (defaultRooms, per-room adults/children/ages). Default dates: arrival = today + 2 days, departure = arrival + 7 nights.

Room types

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Plugin key: casablancabooking_roomtypes
Replaces: Zimmertypen-Widget

Purpose

Room type cards with synced name, description, image, and from-price. Supports overview (grid) and detail (single room from URL slug) modes. Optional embedded availability calendar on detail pages.

Typical placement

• Overview: room listing page
• Detail: dedicated room detail page (one plugin instance, slug from URL)

General sheet (Room Types-specific)

FlexForm key	Type	Default	Effect
settings.filterRoomType	select	(all)	Show only one room in overview mode.
settings.stayNights	int	7	Default stay length for IBE book links (arrival + N nights). Range 1–30.

Plus windowDays, defaultAdults, defaultChildren, language from shared settings (children count used for IBE handover only).

Texts sheet (overview): settings.labels.heading (empty = roomtypes.heading), settings.labels.book (empty = roomtypes.book), settings.labels.details (empty = roomtypes.details).

Display sheet

FlexForm key	Type	Default	Effect
settings.displayMode	select	overview	overview = card grid; detail = single room from URL slug.
settings.showName	checkbox	1	Show room name on cards/detail.
settings.showDescription	checkbox	1	Show room description.
settings.overviewDescriptionMode	select	teaser	Overview only: short teaser or truncated full description with More control.
settings.overviewDescriptionLimit	int	250	Character limit for full overview text.
settings.overviewLayout	select	grid	Overview card layout: grid or list.
settings.showPrice	checkbox	1	Show from-price (cheapest in window).
settings.showImage	checkbox	1	Show room image.
settings.cardLinkType	select	book	Overview only: book = IBE direct; details = TYPO3 detail page link.
settings.detailPageUid	page	(none)	Target page for Details links. Must host this plugin in Detail mode.
settings.showDetailCalendar	checkbox	0	Embed booking calendar on detail pages.
settings.detailCalendarPosition	select	below	Calendar above or below detail content.
settings.detailCalendarInitialMonths	select	1	Visible months for detail calendar.
settings.detailCalendarOfferMode	select	rates_only	Offers after date pick: none or rates_only (this room's rates).

Plus settings.ibeLinkTarget and settings.appearance.

Display modes

Overview mode

• Renders a responsive card grid of all synced room types.
• Cards link to IBE (book) or detail page (details) per cardLinkType.
• From-price uses windowDays look-ahead from local availability cache.

Detail mode

• Single room selected by roomSlug URL argument.
• Image carousel (when multiple images exist), full description, price, and book button.
• Optional embedded calendar with the same colour legend as the availability widget.

Detail calendar options

When showDetailCalendar is enabled on a detail page:

• Shows the calendar colour legend (available, restricted, no arrival, unavailable).
• Calendar is scoped to the current room type.
• Position controlled by detailCalendarPosition (above/below content).
• detailCalendarInitialMonths: 1 or 2 months initially visible.
• detailCalendarOfferMode: show standard rates for this room after dates are selected, or dates only (none).

Route enhancer (Room Types)

Pretty URLs require an Extbase route enhancer. Copy from Configuration/SiteConfiguration/RouteEnhancer.yaml.example:

routeEnhancers: CasablancaRoomDetail: type: Extbase extension: CasablancaBooking plugin: RoomTypes limitToPages:

• 123 # your room detail page UID routes:
• routePath: '/{roomSlug}' _controller: 'RoomTypes::show' _arguments: roomSlug: roomSlug defaultController: 'RoomTypes::show' aspects: roomSlug: type: CasablancaRoomSlug

URL formats (both supported):

• Pretty path: /room-detail/double-room
• Query fallback: /room-detail?tx_casablancabooking_roomtypes[roomSlug]=double-room

Run sync after upgrade so room slugs are generated in the local mirror.

Packages

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Plugin key: casablancabooking_packages
Replaces: Pauschalen-Widget

Purpose

Package (Pauschale) cards from the synced rate mirror. Overview mode can optionally filter by bookable stay length (stayNights + filterByStayNights); detail mode shows one package with optional embedded calendar.

Typical placement

• Overview: packages/offers listing page
• Detail: dedicated package detail page

General sheet (Packages-specific)

FlexForm key	Type	Default	Effect
settings.filterPackage	select	(all)	Show only one package in overview. (all) does not bypass stay-length filtering — see below.
settings.stayNights	int	7	Default stay for IBE book links and the nights label on cards. When stay-length filtering is on, overview lists only packages bookable for this length.
settings.filterByStayNights	check	on	When on, overview shows only packages bookable for stayNights. When off, all synced packages are listed (still respects filterPackage).

Plus windowDays, defaultAdults, language (no children count on Packages flexform).

Texts sheet (overview): settings.labels.heading (empty = packages.heading), settings.labels.book (empty = packages.book), settings.labels.details (empty = packages.details).

Display sheet

Same fields as Room Types Display sheet, with package-specific labels:

• displayMode — overview list vs. detail from packageSlug
• cardLinkType — book opens IBE with rateIds preselection; details links to package detail page
• detailPageUid — target for Details card links
• showDetailCalendar, detailCalendarPosition, detailCalendarInitialMonths — embed calendar on package detail pages (no detailCalendarOfferMode on packages; packages use rate preselection)

Plus settings.ibeLinkTarget and settings.appearance.

Display modes

Overview mode

• Grid of package cards. By default only packages bookable for stayNights are listed; disable filterByStayNights to show all synced packages.
• Book button opens IBE with rateIds={rateId}.

Detail mode

• Single package from packageSlug URL argument.
• Book now preselects the package rate in the IBE.

Route enhancer (Packages)

Copy from Configuration/SiteConfiguration/RouteEnhancerPackages.yaml.example:

routeEnhancers: CasablancaPackageDetail: type: Extbase extension: CasablancaBooking plugin: Packages limitToPages:

• 456 # your package detail page UID routes:
• routePath: '/{packageSlug}' _controller: 'Packages::show' _arguments: packageSlug: packageSlug defaultController: 'Packages::show' aspects: packageSlug: type: CasablancaPackageSlug

URL formats:

• Pretty path: /package-detail/zeit-zu-zweit
• Query fallback: /package-detail?tx_casablancabooking_packages[packageSlug]=zeit-zu-zweit

Price teaser

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Plugin key: casablancabooking_priceteaser
Replaces: SEO "from €X" block

Purpose

Minimal centred "from €X" price display with Hotel JSON-LD structured data. No booking form — ideal for SEO landing pages and hero price callouts.

Typical placement

• SEO landing pages ("Hotel in … ab €X")
• Homepage price highlight
• Campaign pages

FlexForm settings

FlexForm key	Type	Default	Effect
settings.roomType	select	(all)	Restrict to one room type. Empty = cheapest across all rooms.
settings.windowDays	int	90	Days ahead for cheapest-price lookup (7–180).
settings.appearance	select	default	Layout style (default/inherit/compact).
settings.labels.heading	string	(empty)	Optional heading above price. Empty = no heading (price line only).

No occupancy, language, or IBE link settings — display only.

ViewHelpers

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Agencies can use Fluid ViewHelpers in sitepackage templates. Namespace: casablanca (vendor Casablanca\CasablancaBooking\ViewHelper).

casablanca:cheapestPrice

Renders the cheapest available from-price for a site/room in a day window from the local availability cache.

Usage:

{casablanca:cheapestPrice( siteIdentifier: 'main', roomTypeId: 'uuid-here', days: 90, format: '%.2f', currency: 1 )}

Argument	Type	Default	Description
siteIdentifier	string	required	TYPO3 site identifier
roomTypeId	string	''	Optional room type UUID. Empty = all.
rateId	string	''	Optional package rate UUID.
days	int	90	Look-ahead window (1–365 days).
format	string	'%.2f'	sprintf format for price number.
currency	bool	true	Append currency code (e.g. EUR).

Returns empty string when no price is available.

casablanca:ibeLink

Builds an IBE deep-link URL for custom templates (buttons, links, CTAs).

Usage:

<a href="{casablanca:ibeLink(
    siteIdentifier: 'main',
    arrival: '2026-06-01',
    departure: '2026-06-08',
    adults: 2,
    children: 0,
    roomTypeIds: 'uuid-here',
    rateIds: 'package-rate-uuid'
)}">Book now</a>

Argument	Type	Default	Description
siteIdentifier	string	required	TYPO3 site identifier
arrival	string	''	Arrival date Y-m-d. Default: tomorrow.
departure	string	''	Departure date Y-m-d. Default: +1 day.
adults	int	2	Number of adults.
children	int	0	Number of children.
childrenAges	string	''	Comma-separated child ages.
roomTypeIds	string	''	Pre-selected room type ID(s), comma-sep.
rateIds	string	''	Package rate ID for preselection.
culture	string	''	IBE culture segment override.
linkStyle	string	''	Override link style: full_path, culture_space, culture_only.

Returns empty string when site is not configured.