[TYPO3] First Extension attempt

Dmitry Dulepov [typo3] dmitry at typo3.org
Wed Mar 12 14:56:02 CET 2008


Hi!

Stephen Bungert wrote:
> I trying to make my first extension. When I try and view the page I see
> this:
> 
> NO entry in the $TCA-array for the table "tt_news_related_mm". This means
> that the function enableFields() is called with an invalid table name as
> argument.
> 
> What exactly does this mean?
> 
> This was the code that made it:
> 
> $this->query = $this->pi_exec_query("tt_news_related_mm", 0, '`uid_local`
> =1', '', '', '', '');
> 
> What I want to do is just query the database. The table tt_news_related_mm
> seems to store the related artcile IDs fort t_news articles. I want to get
> the related ids so that I can display the related articles for a TT_news
> article in SINGLE view in the right column.

Use $GLOBALS['TYPO3_DB'] (class.t3lib_db.php) to query mm table. MM tables are different, they are not defined in TCA and pi_exec_query will not work for them.

Btw, you use double quotes while you should use single. Check TYPO3 coding guidelines.

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