[TYPO3-dev] General question: links between extensions/plugins/etc

[dan frost]

Hi,

i was just thinking about a nice way of being able 
to deploy extensions and link between them.

I'm often having to link from a listing extension 
to a single-display / form-display extension. I 
don't want the extensions / plugins to know about 
each other's internal structure OR about the 
structure of the URLs.

So, say I want to link from myList (extension or 
plugin - doesn't matter) to myForm. The syntax of 
the myForm URL is something like:

?id=....&myForm[uid]=123

Now, I want to make a link from myList to myForm - 
but I don't want to code the above syntax into 
myList at all.

How about making a "helper" class for myForm which 
provides a code-level API (i.e. interface) for 
myList to request the URL with?

E.g. in myList I do something like:

$items[] = 
'....'.myForm_URL_API::linkToSingle($recordUid).'...';

This means that if the URL syntax changes in 
myForm i don't need to change any of the plugins / 
extensions which link to it.

How does that sound? Has anyone tried this?

dan