[TYPO3-v4] Lenght of type int fields in pages and tt_content

Lorenz Ulrich lorenz-typo3 at visol.ch
Fri Apr 15 21:39:49 CEST 2011


Hi everone

DB fields like

pages:layout
tt_content:layout
tt_content:colPos
tt_content:section_frame

allow own configuration handled by TSconfig and Typoscript e.g. to have 
multiple layouts for content elements etc.

On bigger sites it's hard to keep track about the already used id's. So 
I came up with the idea used for throwing exceptions - use the current 
timestamp so the probability to use one number twice is very small. But 
this is not possible because their type in the DB is tinyint(3) so the 
maximum number is 255.

What do you think about the idea to have a bigger length for these 
fields? The new field backend_layout is int(10) and so its maximum is 
2147483647 - enough for the next years :).


Best regards,

Lorenz



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