[TYPO3-dev] collaboration work & typoscript & svn

[Thomas "Thasmo" Deinhamer]

I played around with dynamic/automatic TS setup/constants
inclusion and created an extension which will iterate throu
a predefined directory recursivly, finding all 'setup.txt'
and 'constants.txt' files, and adding them via 'addStaticFile()'
to the 'static template' section in the backend.

The directory structure looks like this:

ext/EXTKEY/Configuration/TypoScript/:
Layouts
	Default
	Home
Pages
	Default
	Print
	XML
Setup
	Localization
	Adjustments
Views
	Sitemap
	News
	Contact

Inside those directories I store the files 'setup.txt'
and 'constants.txt', which will then get included, and
displayed with this labels inside 'static templates':

	"EXTKEY: Layouts › Default"
	"EXTKEY: Layouts › Home"
	"EXTKEY: Pages › Default"
	etc.

It's also possible to include the text files
directly into 'Layouts' or 'Views', which will
create the following static template entries:

	"EXTKEY: Layouts"
	"EXTKEY: Views"

The stuff is kinda flexible this way, but I'm not sure
if I like this; I am used to template records inside
the backend - this solution seems a bit weird for me.

Especially I don't like my 'static templates' beeing
totally "burried" under all the other static templates,
it's kinda 'hard work' to find my static templates in the list.

Furthermore I'm thinking about a way to dynamically import
specific 'layout' static templates (if available), based on
the LAYOUT field of each page in the pagetree.

Looking into this any time later...

Greetings!


Krystian Szymukowicz schrieb:
> Michael Knoll wrote:
>> Krystian Szymukowicz schrieb:
>>>
>>> hi
>>>
>>> I'd like to ask you if you could share your experience of how do you 
>>> do  collaborative work on bigger TYPO3 projects where more than one 
>>> person do the changes.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Hi Krystian,
>>
>> perhaps this article from Fabrizio Branca can help you a little:
>>
>> http://www.fabrizio-branca.de/fablog/post/why-typoscript-should-go-into-files.html 
>>
> 
> 
> Many thanks for that Michael.
> 
> I've spend whole weekend moving my default TYPO3 installation based on 
> sys_template records to the version based on files. I've put all the 
> typoscript in two extensions "base" and "local" (which Peter Russ 
> refered to). Lots of fun with finding the best defaults for so much pieces.
> 
> But I have it now. "Typoscript based on files", coago performance 
> boosted my new TYPO3 base installation.
> 
> Thanks all for sharing their experience.
> 
> I hope that after some months as my experience in this matter will grow 
> up with some projects, I will share my thoughts in some article.
> 
> -- 
> grtz
> Krystian Szymukowicz
>