[TYPO3-dev] new EXT:categorize to categorize everything

[Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]]

Hi Georg,

that sounds very nice!

I was wondering how this is related to the "categories" extensions that
was being developed by Mads Brunn under the "ECT" unbrella
(http://forge.typo3.org/projects/show/extension-categories).

That extension seems also not to be finished, but it has some very nice
aspects for the backend. So maybe you could "join forces" or even merge
your work to create one single great "categorization" extension?

Another thing: have you thought about having a single global
"tx_categorize_mm" table which all other tables could use (with
tablenames + ident fields)? I was thinking something like DAM project
has done for other extensions to be able to use DAM media without having
to create aditional "MM-tables" (tx_dam_mm_ref).

Cheers,
Ernesto

Georg Ringer wrote: on 18.10.2008 10:29:

> i am working on a new extension called categorize [1] which makes it
> possible to categorize every record (pages, content elements, tt_news
> records, fe-users,...) with the same categories.
> 
> The main advantage is: Inside a plugin you can define: I want all
> records with the categories A+B and you will get all FE-User which got
> those 2 categories and all news records and so on. Of course this can be
> restricted to a spefic table too.
> 
> Every marker you want to use is defined inside the TS, so nothing to do
> with PHP. E.g. the output of fe_users [2] or to render the whole content
> element (which has been categorized) [3].
> 
> If you want to use the categories at your own extension all you would
> need to do is: Define a mm-relation to the category-table and set 2
> lines of TS.
> 
> First screenshots are at forge too [4].
> 
> I am happy to see your comments and thougts about it!
> 
> Georg
> [1] http://forge.typo3.org/projects/show/extension-categorize
> [2] http://forge.typo3.org/wiki/extension-categorize/More_examples
> [3] http://forge.typo3.org/wiki/extension-categorize/Configuration#Example
> [4] http://forge.typo3.org/wiki/extension-categorize/Screenshots