[TYPO3-mvc] Connecting 2 objects results in blank output...

[Franz Koch]

Hey Felix,

>> they do not get stored as CSV, but the record table itself is used
>> like a MM-table with attributes
>
> That the foreign_field stuff is not stored in CSV is only true for this
> special case where one address (normally) is attached to only ONE
> person.

that's the scenario I was referring to and most likely will be used in 
his case I think (sharing addresses among records doesn't sound like a 
good idea). If that didn't come out I'm sorry for that and thanks for 
clarification.

> As soon as you have like images/categories in an n:m-relation
> and you use IRRE with foreign_field it will become CSV.

You're referring to the foreign_selector stuff, right? In this case it 
of course can't work with foreign_field - that's true. But doesn't the 
configuration for MM then have to be at the side of the foreign_selector 
field rather then the IRRE one? Shouldn't the selector field then store 
the relations? (maybe I should read the docs again ;) )
My last experiments with foreign_selector lay years back and I didn't 
like the way it worked back then (or did not work) - so I never tried it 
again.

> I just like to allways use the same way/tablestructure but of course
> your way is equally good working in this case.

I'm more a friend of "as less unneeded DB tables as possible" :) I also 
feel that leaving out a MM table if not needed should speed things up a 
bit on SQL side. Using the same way/tablestructure has of course some 
benefits too and might offer a better flexibility for future changes.

Well - it's a matter of taste I think.

-- 
kind regards,
Franz Koch