[TYPO3-dev] TCA in loop doesn't work

[Christoph Koehler]

Hello all,

I am trying to get the type of a database field from the TCA array, so I  
include the TCA into the frontend and loop through an array of fields to  
get their type, like so:

for ($index = 0; $index < sizeof($fields); $index++) {
	
	$type =  
$GLOBALS['TCA']['fe_users']['columns'][$fields[$index]]['config']['type'];

}

Now if I debug that and take al ook at type, it shows the right type when  
$index = 0, but every single time afterwards, $type becomes null. I have  
no idea why.

Here is the rest of my function:

function makeForm($fields = null) {
	$content = null;
	$fields = explode(',', $fields);
	$GLOBALS['TSFE'] -> includeTCA(1);
	$temp = $GLOBALS['TCA'];

	for ($index = 0; $index < sizeof($fields); $index++) {
		$type = null;
		$type =  
$GLOBALS['TCA']['fe_users']['columns'][$fields[$index]]['config']['type'];
		[snip]
	}

	return $content;
}
	
Thanks!

Christoph