[TYPO3-english] Something like eval to other field types or other ideas to auto-fill IRRE form

[Kay Strobach]

Hey Guillermo,

i have a similar usecase in a special extension called apiclient - (not
in ter if i remember right). This extension uses some extjs to modify
the fields - please contact me personally, than i may submit the related
part to you.

Regards
Kay

Am 23.07.2011 15:32, schrieb Guillermo R. Oramas J.:
> Thanks Mathias.
> 
> I read the article and I used the hook that you suggest to me, and built
> exactly what I need.
> 
> Your help was very useful to me.
> 
> I saw some traps as you said, in special because the hook is called each
> time you save a form no matters if is related or not, so it is necessary to
> "filter" when to trigger the code with "if" conditions and understand the
> parameters that are passed to the function each time, that in the case of
> use IRRE fields is a little bit more complex.
> 
> So, I insist in there will be cool if Typo3 could have more precise tools
> for do that, like I wrote before: " I think that the functionality of use
> data from other fields is basic and it could be something to add to Typo3 in
> order to be more powerful and less restrictive. I could name many examples
> for that: Auto-fill forms, make math operations, concatenations, etc... It
> would be cool that each field could launch custom functions to do this, like
> the input type do through the eval custom functions."
> 
> Best regards.
> 
> Am 16.07.11 16:31, schrieb Guillermo R. Oramas J.:
>> I appreciate more information about hooks that I can use in this
> situation.
>> I read the Core API documentation but I'm confusing about how they 
>> works and how to call them.
> 
> Hooks are implemented so you can interact with the "flow" of data within
> TYPO3.
> 
> Imagine something like this:
> Data is entered by a user, the "SAVE" button is clicked and after that the
> "new" form is rendered.
> 
> Here you have at least two hooks you can "hook" into that flow.
> a) before the data was actually stored in the database. Useful to validate
> things.
> b) after the data was stored in the database. Useful when you need IDs of
> newly created records.
> 
> Check this out:
> http://typo3.org/development/articles/how-to-use-existing-hooks/
> 
> And also this might help you finding the hook you want to use:
> processDatamap_afterDatabaseOperations()
> 
> cheers
> mathias
> 
> --
> Ernesto, Nov. 9th 2010:
> "In the graphics generation routines of TYPO3 *anything* could cause a side
> effect."
> 


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