[TYPO3-dev] getting data out of flexForm structure

[Dmitry Dulepov [typo3]]

Hi!

Dr. Ronald P. Steiner wrote:
> basically instead of:
> $this->pi_initPIflexForm();
> $piFlexForm = $this->cObj->data['pi_flexform'];
> 
> 
> $piFlexForm = t3lib_div::xml2array($flexForm);

If you do it in your own plugin, you should use pi_initPIflexForm, not xml2array directly. If anything changes in plugin flexforms, pi_initPIflexform will take that into account. This is the purpose of API. Using API instead of inventing the wheel is a part of good extension.

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