[TYPO3-dev] Obtaining a complete table definition

[Christian Lerrahn (Cerebrum)]

Hi Alex,
> > I'm trying to find out about a complete table definition including
> > info if the fields are (MM) relations. In principle this is all
> > stored in the TCA but when I check the TCA this info is not loaded,
> > of course. So I thought I would just have to run
> > t3lib_div::loadTCA() tfor the table I'm interested in. However,
> > this only gives me the basic table but does not give me the fields
> > added by extensions. As I am interested in all available fields (at
> > least those added by active extensions), I would like to load the
> > full-blown TCA for this table. But how do I do that?
> 
> in FE context you can use $GLOBALS['TSFE']->includeTCA();

Sorry for the late reply. I was just too busy to look into this any
earlier.
Thanks for the hint. This does solve my problem for the moment.
However, I'm wondering, if you can achieve the same thing in the
backend somehow so that your flexforms can react to a table structure.

Cheers,
Christian