[Typo3-dev] recent work, ideas and thoughts

[Wolfgang Klinger]

 Hi

 1. I've introduced a new "secure download" by using parseFunc to
    extract links to files, store references in the database and
    updating the href attribute to something like
    "download.php?fid=12&pid=13&file=something.pdf" so I can check if
    the user has permission for site "pid" to download file "fid" named
    "something.pdf"
    (that obviously works for files linked with the RTE, currently
    not with the "Downloads" content element)
    Another problem to solve was that this files should get indexed by
    indexed_search (though I don't like this extension, but there's no
    alternative currently)...
    My question is now if I shall implement this as general as possible
    (with hooks or whatever) and if there's a demand for such
    a solution?
 
 1.b And it would be cool if I can define several "user functions" for
    parseFunc in a chain! (so it's possible to use e.g. dh_linklayout
    and my extension one after the other)

 2. Another thing I did recently was a switch between "not found" and
    "no access", so it's possible to redirect to the "right" site
    (automatically adding the requested URL so one can simply redirect
    after successful login)
    This should go into the Core IMHO... 
    Any comments?

 3. I needed three USERDEFX and CURIFSUB for a very complex menu, so
    I added two new states (USERDEF3, CURIFSUB) to tslib_menu, but
    I wonder if it wouldn't be better to dynamically define USERDEFX states
    (as much as required) in any way... I would like to implement that
    and hope that CURIFSUB is available by default in 3.8!


 I would really like to publish these extensions sometime soon!
 So please comment on these points and give me some feedback or if you
 would like to help!


 tia, bye
 Wolfgang