[TYPO3-dev] Naming of plugins in an extension

[Steffen Kamper]

Stefan Lehmann schrieb:
> Hello!
> 
> I have a question about the naming of plugins in TYPO3. For our projects 
> we develop several extensions for different purposes. In most cases 
> these extensions contain several plugins. We followed the way like the 
> TYPO3 community is doing it and named the plugins like that:
> 
> - tx_something_pi1
> - tx_something_pi2 and so on.
> 
> If the project grows, this naming becomes more and more confusing, 
> because "_pi1" and "_pi2" arent very semantic. My question is:  Is there 
> a deeper idea behind this numerical naming (any future changes) or are 
> we free to name the plugins, like we wish? eg.:
> 
> - tx_something_dynamic_teasers
> - tx_something_static_teasers
> 
> .. or something like that.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> best regards,
> 
> Stefan Lehmann
> 

You are free to use different naming, ensure that you include the plugin 
in the right way:
t3lib_extMgm::addPlugin(array('LLL:EXT:anylangfile.xml:tt_content.list_type_thisplugin', 
$_EXTKEY . $your_postfix),'list_type');

vg Steffen