[TYPO3-v4] What to do with $TYPO3_USER_SETTINGS?

[Steffen Ritter]

Francois Suter schrieb:
> Hi all,
> 
> As I'm working (still) on updating the Core APIs manual, I'm face with 
> adding the documentation for this new global array $TYPO3_USER_SETTINGS. 
> The documentation has been prepared by Steffen, so that's not the issue.
> 
> This new TCA-like structure was introduced so that the "User settings" 
> screen could be manipulated and extended easily. On the principle, this 
> is all well and nice. But at the time I expressed the feeling that it 
> was a bad idea to create a global array just for the User settings. What 
> are we going if other BE forms start using the same mechanism? Have one 
> global array per form? At the time I suggested have a single such global 
> array, of which User settings would be just one element, something like:
> 
> $BEFORMS['user_settings']
> 
> or something similar. The problem with having too many global arrays is 
> that we lose the oversight. Global array can be viewed in the Admin 
> Tools > Configuration module, but they need to be added manually for 
> each array. How many are we going to have eventually. With the above 
> syntax, there would be only one.
> 
> My remark was turned down at the time and I wasn't disturbed enough to 
> fight more for my idea. I still this array was bad idea and I would 
> quite like the structure to be improved. In the meantime I am loathe to 
> document this feature, as I don't think that it should survive as is.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
sounds reasonable to me :)
But, what "other" Be-Form do you espect?