[TYPO3-dev] how to get complete TCA after extending a table?

Helmut Hummel helmut.hummel at typo3.org
Fri Nov 11 18:20:49 CET 2011


Hi Bernd,

Bernd Wilke wrote:
> in an extension I extended an existing table with further fields as other
> extensions do also.
> in the plugin I want the list of all fields in this table, including my
> additional fields and also the fields from other extensions.
 >
> is there a way to get the complete TCA?

In the backend, all TCA is always loaded. For the frontend, there is no 
API, so you have to find a way around like manually including the TCA 
files.

We should really take care creating an API for that, since TCA can be 
really useful in the frontend sometimes...

Kind regards,
Helmut

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