[Typo3-dev] PHP problem revived

[Karsten Dambekalns]

Hi!

On 2004-04-29, dan frost <dan at danfrost.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> 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 ;-)
>> 
>
> Here's my thought on XML: it's very, very verbose and rather horrid to 
> edit. Also, it doesn't reflect the way we're used to dealing with data 
> structures (e.g. arrays). However, it's good points are:
>
> 1. Editable in text editor - you could die() a php process, dump all the 
> vars, edit them and resume; or, stick them in the database. You can't 
> edit serialised stuff (easily).

Just a thought...

Sometimes it would already be great to have a link in phpMyAdmin
saying 'view deserialized'.

It would not work for objects, of course (unless the class file has
been loaded by phpMyAdmin), but at least arrays (in uc fields, for
example) would be easier to look at.

Has anybody ever thought about this?

Karsten