[Typo3-dev] PHP problem revived

[Martin-no$pam-Kutschker]

dan frost wrote:
> 
> Martin-no$pam-Kutschker wrote:
> 
>> dan frost wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all.
>>>
>>> Thought i'd throw my ideas in - as usual, they may be very unpopular...!
>>>
>>> As php5 has such very, very powerful XML tools (compared to php4.x) 
>>> why not make the TCA into XML? E.g.
>>
>> Because Typo3 would then have a dependency on PHP 5?
> 
> This will happen one day - perhaps in a year or so.

Really? Typo3 still is supposed to work with the ancient 3.0.6. So I 
don't expect anything like that before two years.

> Also, thinking about it now, array to xml to array tto xml to array .... 
> etc makes my head spin. I would argue that it's bad practice: in 
> database design you should to store things in the form they will be used 
> (atomic / data format).
> 
> Just trying to provoke you...

You're not provoking me. I didn't choose the data format for flexforms. 
Personally I think it was a wrong decision to use xml, rather than th 
plain old php way as used for the tca.

Well, if you'd kick out the whole php array stuff then it word make 
sense. So it just looks like a gimmick to me. There's no real DTD or 
schema, nothing fancy, nothing to clean up the IMHO partially crufted 
TCA syntax (it introduces it's own oddities like the ROOT). It's mostly 
a wrapper.

Ok, it might make more sense in the context of TV, but for your average 
plugin xml for flexforms is an overkill. Ah yes, what's new are the 
tabs. This is really nice and fine. Dunno if the tabs justify the switch 
to xml.

Enough of this provoking of me. I guess I haven't been thinking enough 
about the matter. In fact I was jus musing while writing this post ;-)

Better forget it before it spoils your day :)

Masi