[TYPO3-50-general] Naming of ViewHelpers - ambiguity

Malte Jansen mail at maltejansen.de
Sun Jan 4 16:58:42 CET 2009


Hi Sebastian,

Sebastian Kurfürst schrieb:
> Hey,
> 
> while working with Fluid today, I again stumbled over an ambiquity of 
> the term "ViewHelper". We currently use it in two contexts:
> - Inside FLOW3/Classes/MVC/View/Helper
>     These are things like an "URI Helper", etc - so more general helpers 
What about "View-Assistant"?
- URI View-Assistant


> which you proboably need in a view
> - Inside Fluid
>     Each special Tag in Fluid is a ViewHelper as well - but with a 
> different interface (they inherit F3\Fluid\Core\AbstractViewHelper). 
> They can use the view helpers above.
IMO it's the common usage.
Leave it as Helper.

Cheers,

Malte


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