[TYPO3-dev] TCE in FE

[Mathias Schreiber [wmdb >]]

Martin Kutschker schrieb:
>>> in terms of ... ?
>>> just curious
>> Nice to read other people also still use this "relict" library. I hope
>> this is what you meant Mathias?

Never saw a faster way to subscribe to a newsletter or to update small 
things in a record.
Every external extension loaded is overhead.
But: I am very picky about performance, so I might not be really 
representative :)

> I used it only once for a project using TYPO3 3.5 and - sorry to say - I think it sucked. Just to
> name a few problems: it doesn't distinct between validating a field and making it a required field -
> just like TCA *grrrr* :( AFAIR you cannot update an upload field in a subsequent "edit view" of the
> form.

hm.
This f course is determined by the way you approach things.
I mostly say: "It is required to pt in a valid email address"
Other might do otherwise.

> Actually the shortcomings weren't so many. But it took me too many hoops to fix them. In the end the
> code was so messy (and entangled with features I needed only for the site) I had no chance to
> present my changes to the community. Though at this time there was no Core team. So I'd had to
> bugger Kasper himself.

*Wir ur-gestein haben's schon schwer*

;-)


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