[TYPO3-mvc] Extbase & correct language handling

[Henjo Hoeksma]

On 2011-11-25 06:27:18 +0000, Georg Ringer said:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> I expect that most of you who are using extbase for multilanguage-sites 
> know that extbase doesn't do all things 100%.
> 
> As my extension news is getting more attention there are now also 
> complaints about the current state of extbase - and I wanna change that 
> - Issue [1]
> 
> Are there more people interested in fixing those issues? It would be 
> great if at least one of the "extbase core team" could help us with 
> implementing the last steps!
> 
> How does it currently work
> =============================
> Extbase fetches all records with sys_language_uid 0,-1 (default and 
> 'all languages') and does an overlay with the current language.
> 
> Current drawbacks
> ==============================
> 1) It is quite common to have records without any default language 
> parent. Those records are currently not visible to be loaded
> 
> => I got a patch for that already, see [2]
> 
> 2) Don't know exactly if this is an extbase or configuration issue but 
> IMO the first one:
> 
> News got a relation to media records via irre. After translating the 
> record and its relations an media record which is only available in 
> translation is not shown.
> 
> 3) Do you got any other issues?
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> Georg
> 
> [1] http://forge.typo3.org/issues/32072
> [2] http://forge.typo3.org/attachments/19497/extbase_language.diff

Hi Georg,

regarding 2) if you set in the TCA the default language of that object 
should be -1 then you won't have that problem.

Should be a valid way of working.

Henjo