[TYPO3-dev] TCA modification API

[Mathias Schreiber [wmdb >]]

Am 18.11.10 13:13, schrieb Bjoern Pedersen:
> Hi,
>
> just some thoughts about the TCA manipulation API:

great!

> Currently we mainly hav adding-functions, which only work on the types
> field. The refactoring of the backend results in most items being moved
> to palettes.

Actually, there are "add to palette" functions as well (at least current 
trunk)

> So my question:
> Would it make sense to have functions to also manipulate the palettes?
>
> So e.g. AddToPalette
> 	ReplaceInPalette
> 	AddPalette
> 	AddPlatteToTypes
> 	ReplaceInTypes

Except for the typo in AddPlatteToTypes I'm all the way with you.
I thought of just that yesterday night when I wanted to add fields 
fields for the FAL extension.

Currently the only ways to remove stuff are:
- unset TCA definition (which fails when you need to remove the field 
only in a certain type)
- str_replace types (which is very very very unstable and at least from 
my POV bad coding.

So if you have time to do this... GO GO GO ! :)

cheers
Mathias


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