[TYPO3-dam] mmforeign causes troubles...

[Pieter]

Rupert Germann wrote:
> Pieter wrote:
>> Hello DAM people,
> 
> Hi Folks,
>  
> after digging through tcemain and loaddbgroup for hours I think I found a
> fix for the nasty mmforeign problem.
> 
> please check out:
> http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=3437
> 
> and tell me if the fix works for you, too.
> 
> greets
> rupert
> 
Hello Rupert,

thanks for the efforts so far!  I'll do what I can: test the new 
version.  I'm doing this with tt_news 2.2.24 and dam_filelinks 0.3.1.

After installing the new version of mmforeign, I noticed that the news 
relations were wrong again.  Each news item with a category not being 
the category with uid=1 had 2 category items in the list again: the 
category with uid=1 and the correct category.  I first thought that I 
had installed the old version of mmforeign but that was not the case. 
The behavior is different: after removing the category with uid=1 and 
saving the tt_news item, everything is (and stays) correct for this news 
item.

I started looking into this: the 'category' field in the tt_news table 
contains the number of categories selected for a news item.

With mmforeign installed: the list of categories in a news item is wrong 
at first.  If you remove the wrong item (with uid=1) and save, the list 
is correct and stays correct.  But the 'category' field in the tt_news 
table is now always zero, no matter how many categories are selected in 
the listbox.

After testing this, I thought it would be better to use the latest 
version of tt_news (2.3.6), so I installed that.  The extra category 
does not appear with this version but the 'category' field in the 
tt_news table is zero as soon as you save a tt_news item with mmforeign 
  installed.

Conclusion: the new mmforeign is better but still messes up the tt_news 
tables...  The 'category' field is not correct any more.  I did not 
notice any immediate problems because of this but it's probably fatal 
for other parts of the code.

Kind regards,
Pieter