[FLOW3-general] CR support for simultaneous access to multiple databases

[Robert Lemke]

Hi Michael,

Am 09.10.2010 um 13:11 schrieb Michael Feher:

> While getting familiar with the source code I realized that the CR backend stores the data in a particular structure which I think is hard to access from other applications outside of FLOW3.

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> Are there any plans to implement such features? If so I would be willing to help. Or is this out of the scope of FLOW3 and developers are required to implement such DB connections on their own.

Yes, we had such plans since we started designing the persistence framework and I guess with our recent ideas for switching to Doctrine [1] and some project we're currently working on (which uses CouchDB as a storage backend) this topic will get more dedication in the near future.

So, what we definitely want is support of multiple storage backends at the same time (for example one for the TYPO3 CR and one for the rest of the application). What's clear though is that you won't be able to run queries across backend boundaries (such as joins etc.). But I guess that most developers wouldn't expect that anyway.

We don't have a concrete schedule for these features but we do have them on our list.

Cheers,
Robert

[1] http://robertlemke.de/blog/posts/2010/10/18/new-impulses-from-the-php-conference