[TYPO3-english] Renaming an extension

Tonix (Antonio Nati) tonix at interazioni.it
Mon May 7 23:20:07 CEST 2012


I have both wizard_form.dat and wizard_form.html.
I changed inside them all references from old extension to new 
extension, but it is like they don't exist.

Is there anything else besides these two files?

Regards,

Tonino


Il 07/05/2012 20:33, Robert Wildling ha scritto:
> To see the structure of an ext in kcikstarter, you need the 
> wizard_form.dat and wizard_form.html files in the doc folder. If they 
> are not there, you won't see anything. Unfortunately I don't know if 
> those specific files can be regenreated...
>
> Regards,
> Robert
>
>> Thanks to your and other answer.
>>
>> I did already what you suggest, before posting, and all worked nicely,
>> except there is no way to see the new extension inside kickstarter.
>>
>> In whatever mode I rename (copy and rename) the extension, then finally,
>> when, using extension manager, I select 'Edit in Kickstarter', I don't
>> see anything of setup the extension should have (the same setup of old
>> extension).
>>
>> No general info, no typoscript code, no frontend plugins.
>>
>> How to make this rename effective, using kickstarter on new renamed
>> extension?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tonino
>>
>>
>>
>> Il 03/05/2012 01:33, Richard Davies ha scritto:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> It depends what you mean. If you just want the name itself to be
>>> different,
>>> change title in ext_emconf.php. If you want to change the whole 
>>> thing so
>>> you can have two running, basically cloning an extension, this is what
>>> I do:
>>> If you have an extension called test_ext, and want to name it 
>>> other_ext,
>>>
>>> - Search replace through extension files,
>>> - search for 'test_ext', replace with 'other_ext'.
>>> - search for 'testext', replace with 'otherext'
>>> - Search replace the extension filenames,
>>> - search for 'test_ext', replace with 'other_ext'.
>>> - search for 'testext', replace with 'otherext'
>>> - Rename title in ext_emconf
>>> - If you are doing so on an installed extension, rename the extension
>>> tables (in mysql use RENAME TABLE
>>> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/rename-table.html)
>>> - Clear cache
>>> - (Re)Install extension as it was the 'old' extension that was 
>>> installed
>>>
>>> I still work with pi_base extensions so I don't know if there are any
>>> extra
>>> quirks in extbase extensions.
>>>
>>> Richard
>>>
>>>
>>> On 3 May 2012 11:22, Tonix (Antonio Nati)<tonix at interazioni.it> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I need to rename a working extension.
>>>> Is there a guide explaining which steps must be followed?
>>>> Did someone already try this change?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Tonino
>>>>
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