[TYPO3-dev] Fake / simulate frontend environment ( TSFE )

[Steffen Kamper]

Hi Elmar,

"Elmar Hinz" <elmar07 at googlemail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1195600295.1555.typo3-dev at lists.netfielders.de...
> Hi,
>
> by request of Dmitry I start this topic as a new thread, to make it the 
> more
> easy findable within the list.
>
> How to quickly fake a FE in the BE?
>
> Here is a very, very official solution from Robert, found in his extension
> t3unit, now followed by the extension phpunit:
>
> http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/phpunit/3.1.15/info/mod1%252Findex.php/
>
>
>   /**
>     * Roughly simulates the frontend although being in the backend.
>     *
>     * @return    void
>     * @todo    This is a quick hack, needs proper implementation
>     */
>    protected function simulateFrontendEnviroment() {
>
>        global $TSFE, $TYPO3_CONF_VARS;
>
>            // FIXME: Currently bad workaround which only initializes a few
> things, not really what you'd call a frontend enviroment
>
>        require_once(PATH_tslib.'class.tslib_fe.php');
>        require_once(PATH_t3lib.'class.t3lib_page.php');
>        require_once(PATH_t3lib.'class.t3lib_userauth.php');
>        require_once(PATH_tslib.'class.tslib_feuserauth.php');
>        require_once(PATH_t3lib.'class.t3lib_tstemplate.php');
>        require_once(PATH_t3lib.'class.t3lib_cs.php');
>
>        $temp_TSFEclassName = t3lib_div::makeInstanceClassName('tslib_fe');
>        $TSFE = new $temp_TSFEclassName(
>                $TYPO3_CONF_VARS,
>                t3lib_div::_GP('id'),
>                t3lib_div::_GP('type'),
>                t3lib_div::_GP('no_cache'),
>                t3lib_div::_GP('cHash'),
>                t3lib_div::_GP('jumpurl'),
>                t3lib_div::_GP('MP'),
>                t3lib_div::_GP('RDCT')
>            );
>        $TSFE->connectToDB();
>        $TSFE->config = array();        // Must be filled with actual
> config!
>
>    }
>

this solution is very limited, there are missing some inits. Maybe this will 
fail on some typical FE-actions.
- global $TSFE doesn't make sense for me
-  // FIXME: ...  comment says more than i could say.

Did you compared it with the spellcheck-method from rte?

vg  Steffen