[TYPO3-dev] typo3 5.0

[R. van Twisk]

Martin Kutschker wrote:
> Klaus Hinum schrieb:
>   
>> Steffen Kamper schrieb:
>>
>>     
>>> "Patrick Gaumond" <patrick at typo3quebec.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
>>> news:mailman.1.1161792111.1278.typo3-dev at lists.netfielders.de...
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Klaus Hinum wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Hi Group (dev team),
>>>>>
>>>>> here comes a real bad ass question, because i need to write some 
>>>>> extensions for our project that would be obsolete with typo3 5.0 
>>>>> (because of the proposed content structure) i wanted to ask:
>>>>>
>>>>> when is typo3 5.0 planned to be released?
>>>>> i don't need a date, but if you state - next year
>>>>> or in approximately a year i would not start our extensions but wait 
>>>>> for typo3 5.0 (i have time), but if takes more than 1,5 - 2 years 
>>>>> from now on, i have to start the extensions (and they will be more 
>>>>> or less hacks). so if anybody has same plans for me ...
>>>>>           
>>>>         
>>> never heard before that this should be a reason to wait - when 5 is 
>>> released you don't start because version 6 will change some ways of 
>>> handling ?
>>>
>>> vg  Steffen
>>>
>>>       
>>>> No one knows for sure but everyone know that 5.0 will take time and 
>>>> that 4.x will be there for the next 3-4 years... at least!
>>>>
>>>> So just start coding on something that exist.
>>>>
>>>> Patrick 
>>>>         
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> thanks for your answers,
>>
>> the reason is, that the templavoila "way" of embedding xml in the fields 
>> is too slow for the things we want to make (but we need the 
>> flexibility). so i would have to implement either a whole structure as 
>> proposed by 5.0 or an intelligent caching mechanism.
>>     
>
> Bernhard Kraft had a solution that stored the data as serialized array. As 
> TV uses the array/xml functions in t3lib_div you have only to hack those 
> functions.
>
> IMHO his approach is quite clever.
>
> Masi
> _______________________________________________
>   
be careful with serialized arrays in a database.
If your data is in latin1, and at some point you want to upgrade
to utf-8 (database) then your serialized arrays might break.
when you let iconv  or mysql do the conversion.

be warned!!!

(I had this issue myself....)

Ries

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