[TYPO3-dam-devel] RFC #10015: dam tries to load $TCA['tt_news'] without checking whether the ext is loaded

[Dan Osipov]

It was introduced by patch 9819.
Perhaps Stanislas can explain the usage of this? Was it a test that was 
left in the code?

Dan Osipov
Calkins Media
http://danosipov.com/blog/

Francois Suter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> Solution:
>> Only load TCA for tt_news if tt_news is loaded.
> 
> The fix is quite obvious. However it makes me wonder what is a TCA 
> modification of tt_news doing in the middle of the DAM. I understand it 
> is used to enable correct indexing of soft references, but IMHO code in 
> the DAM shouldn't make the hypothesis that tt_news is installed. 
> Shouldn't this belong to another extension altogether? tt_news itself?
> 
> And also, why are soft references searched for in the title of the news 
> item? Can we really have a media tag inside there?
> 
> Cheers
>