[TYPO3-mvc] Best practise for extdirect and extbase

[Kevin Ulrich Moschallski]

On 2011-04-28 15:16:01 +0200, Dennis Ahrens said:

> Hi Kevin,
> 
> do you write a plugin or a module? I've not tested the FE stuff since 
> the backport of the FLOW3 package - would be greate to get some 
> feedback related to FE.
> 
> On 28.04.2011 14:52, Kevin Ulrich Moschallski wrote:
>> 1. The controller actions aren't usable for normal views, i.e. fluid
>> because the method $this->view->setConfiguration() doesn't exist in fluid.
> 
> I've worked around this problem by using
> 
> if ($this->request->getFormat() === 'extdirect') {
> 	// do DirectView related stuff
> }
> 
> inside the action that should be usable for other formats, too.
> 
>> 2. The possibility to use viewhelpers in combination with a basic
>> template for the actions would be nice, this also would fix problem 1. A
>> viewhelper would be nice i.e. for image manipulation. Currently i have a
>> very ugly workaround in my controller where i resize the image manualy
>> by copying the viewhelper logic.
> 
> Don't get the point here - you like to use format.image ViewHelper to 
> hand over the result inside a Ext.Direct response?
> 
> regards
> Dennis

Hi Dennis,

i write a FE plugin. Your getFormat() condition shure works but i think 
this should be the controller logic should be independent from the view.

To my second point:

Yes, i would like to use <f:uri.image /> for example to pass the result 
to Ext.Direct. I thought about adding a _useViewHelper to the 
setConfiguration() array. But in relation to the first point i think 
the best solution would be a fluid like template engine to format the 
result and additionaly use viewhelpers.

One question off topic, or related to the topic, i'm very new to extjs 
and i desperately searching for a carousel extension similar to 
jCarousel (http://sorgalla.com/jcarousel/) with endless loop support in 
combination with Ext.Direct and a store. Do you know something or do 
you maybe have a approach how to do this with an Ext.DataView?

Regards,
Kevin