[Typo3-dev] Make configuration simple

Martin Kutschker Martin.Kutschker at n0spam-blackbox.net
Thu Oct 13 09:18:11 CEST 2005


Christoph Koehler schrieb:
> I very much agree!!
> Another thing -but that might just be me in my ignorance- are the  
> different places I can configure stuff at. Constants, TSconfig, 
> template  record...
> I never had to use any of those except the template record, where I 
> config  pretty much everything.
> I don't know how this should look, especially without losing 
> flexibility,  but maybe there could be one central location to setup all 
> those things?
> 
> Maybe if there are certain things configured for one site only, or one  
> page, we can do something like:
> pagename.tx_someExtension.someConfigVar = something;
> 
> or
> 
> site1.page34.blabla.etc = bla;

This only bloats the configuration. I usually use many templates for 
readability and reusablity.

TSconfig is used for BE configuration (along with user TS config). This 
not so bad. But a bit annayoing is that for some FE-plugin/BE-module 
combination you have to set some values twice.

Masi




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