[TYPO3-english] Editing BE records with a FE form

[Stephen Bungert]

For an extension that I have created, I now need to allow editing/creating 
new records in the FE. My clients have decided that doing it in TYPO3 is too 
complicated and they want some kind of simple form on the website FE that 
would allow them to create records.

There are no RTE's needed so the fields consist of just text with several 
"group" fields which I render as check and radio boxes. This all worked fine 
when editing an existing records,  but I have run in to problems when 
creating a new record. There are several fields that need to be additionaly 
created: tstamp, crdate, cruser_id and so on.

I set these to timestamps and leave cruser_id blank as I assume the BE user 
uid is needed here not the FE user uid.

One of the fields that I see in phpmyadmin is l10n_diffsource which seems to 
contain serealised data. I have not done anything to this field except set 
it to an empty string. Will this matter long term, can I leave it blank? If 
not is there some function I can call to create this data?