[Typo3-dev] Scripting in TYPO3

[Jan-Hendrik Heuing [NF]]

Alright, but then again: This doesn't make sense to me having that in TS, 
rather than having it via this CLI/Telnet solution, which makes much more 
sense to me !

JH

"Michael Scharkow" <mscharkow at gmx.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1109359697.8423.typo3-dev at lists.netfielders.de...
> Jan-Hendrik Heuing [NF] wrote:
>
>> It generaly sounds interesting. The thing is that I don't know any exact 
>> cases I'd have use for it now, so... while it sounds very interesting, it 
>> doesn't make much sense :-))
>>
>> The idea is that in the frontend it's only about views of data in the 
>> backend. So you do not care about moving records really. There actualy IS 
>> a case where it might be interesting: You have got simple scripts every 
>> once in a while you could do via TS in some way... Like form related 
>> stuff. I am thinking about the old FEdata, which is not used anymore. So 
>> you could actualy send forms, and process them in some way where you do 
>> not need php at all. On the other side, for what reason ? For the 
>> form-thin, fe-adminLib is also available, which is probably much more 
>> powerful than just simple processing.
>>
>> But maybe you have some ideas on the pratical things... If there is 
>> anything, I'd like to hear it.
>
> I think scripting is only for BE administration, and basically the main 
> purpose is automating stuff, like creating new pages, content, adding some 
> keywords to more than one page, creating translation pages for all 
> existing pages. Basically, you could do a lot of that with plain 
> SQL-statements, but looping, calling functions etc. would be nice.
>
> pages = (Home, Some, Other, Pages, A, Very, Long, List,)
> for page in pages:
> create(page)
> translate(page)
>
> Greetings,
> Michael