[Typo3-dev] feEdit API (structural ideas)

[Christian Jul Jensen]

Hi guys,

having been on holiday, I just browsed the 'Structural Ideas'-thread,
and since my extension was mentioned, I thought I'd just throw in a
couple of comments on that, since I have also been asked about it
several other times in private mails.

I know that the extension is not fully mature, and very undocumented,
and please note that it's stil marked 'beta'. That said, the extension
(and it's ancestor-code), works on several live-sites.

The history of the extension is that after having made the same type of
code for different plugins, I figured that I would really benefit from
having that extension. In some (not public available) extensions, I took
the time to develop and think through these features. These extensions
even contained file upload, and so actually code to do this has been
made, but just not integrated into the extension.

The way I worked with the extension was simply to rewrite the code from
that project into the extension when I needed it, adding TCA-types when
needed. I'd really like to finish it, add all TCA-types (including
files, which seem to be in high demand), but I probably will not have
the time untill I need it for some project (sponsoring accepted :) ).

The extension recently had 'email-approved editing' added, and so it is
very useful for a lot of things (IMHO).

Regarding documentation, I figured that since this an API, you'd need to
know PHP to use it anyway, and so I simply tried to document the
config-possibilities in the code, and ignored the real docs for now.

As soon as I get the time I'll try to make the file-upload things. If
you encounter other TCA-types, which is not rendered please let me know.
I wasn't aware about the JS-errors, please let me know what the problem
is (make sure to use the latest version), I'll try to fix it.

I think it will be fairly easy to write an extension that offers a
plugin which renders the edit-form, from any choosen table, using feEdit
API. That will as far as I understand DH, come pretty close to some of
the functionality he suggests. Again I'd love to make that extension,
bit I can say when I'll the time.

-- 
Christian Jul Jensen
Freelance webprogrammer
TYPO3 typehead Denmark