[TYPO3-dev] how to use FEedit with an own extension?

[Jeff Segars]

On 2/7/10 9:22 AM, bernd wilke wrote:
> I search the NGs and the web but found only the same question at times
> much before v4.3.
> As with v4.3 feedit is a system extension I suppose that there is an API.
> But I didn't find any documentation.
>
> How can I use FEedit from within my extension?
> Beside the plugin for displaying I want to build a plugin for editing.
>
> Is there a simple solution for editing a 'view'-record?
> the FE-user should be able to edit multiple records at once which are
> glued by relations.

Check out the EDITPANEL cObject and the possibility to turn it on for an 
individual record with stdWrap (all documented in TSRef).  In your 
normal frontend plugin that shows a list or single view, you can wrap 
the output of a single record with the EDITPANEL and that should be all 
you need for a working frontend editing instance.

> IIRC FEedit needs BE-user-login.
> is this realy neccessary if I want to manage the data from within my
> plugin?

There are several extensions that will simulate a backend login from a 
frontend user. simulatebe is one that I've used in the past with some 
success.

> Is this possible with FEedit at all?
> Is there a (better?) solution so I don't have to build up every form and
> each validation by my own?

Hope that helps!
Jeff