[TYPO3-dam] Planning a new ext based on DAM

[Philipp Gampe]

Dan Osipov schrieb:
> Georg,
> 
>> - I think I use the record "Media type" to define the type of file. Is
>> this the best way? I didn't find a way to select the media type inside a
>> dam record. Am I missing something?
> 
> Field media_type in tx_dam is what defines the type of the file.
> Take a look at the arrays defined in /lib/tx_dam_types.php, I think they
> will answer your question.
> 
>>
>> - I defined some media types like "Main Images", "Sub Image" but in the
>> tree (module list) I see just 2 times "Image" but not the records I
>> created.
> 
> Did you define them in the arrays as well?
> 
>> - My experience with DAM is a bit limited so also a basic question:
>> Which extra extensions do I still need? Still the one for getting the
>> selection inside tt_content, mass indexing and so on?
> 
> I think the manual recommends dam_index and dam_ttcontent. The rest
> depends on your use.
> 
> 
> Dan Osipov
> Calkins Media
> http://danosipov.com/blog/
> 
> Georg Ringer wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I am planning a new extension for a customer and I guess I use DAM.
>> A szenario is the following one:
>>
>> ------------
>> There are different categories and many different type of records
>> belong to one category: Text files, mp3s, videos, images, pdfs.
>>
>> In FE a user can select a category (which is kind of a topic) and will
>> get all records grouped by the type. Every file can be downloaded.
>> -------------
>>
>> I looked at trunk version of TYPO3 and DAM and this looks already
>> great but I still got some questions:
>>
>> - I think I use the record "Media type" to define the type of file. Is
>> this the best way? I didn't find a way to select the media type inside
>> a dam record. Am I missing something?
>>
>> - I defined some media types like "Main Images", "Sub Image" but in
>> the tree (module list) I see just 2 times "Image" but not the records
>> I created.
>>
>> - My experience with DAM is a bit limited so also a basic question:
>> Which extra extensions do I still need? Still the one for getting the
>> selection inside tt_content, mass indexing and so on?
>>
>> Thanks for your help, really appreciated!
>> Georg

did you tried dam_frontend ?

Cheers
Phil