[TYPO3-dev] Possible RFC : Introducing ARRAY_LOOP cObject

[Jigal van Hemert]

Hi,

On 31-1-2011 11:38, Xavier Perseguers wrote:
> This was discussed at T3DD10. I often have to deal with external data
> which basically is an array of data just as what is returned by
> $GLOBALS['TYPO3_DB']->exec_SELECTgetRows() or an array of some domain
> object, when programming the Extbase way.

It was also discussed in the code sprint in Stuttgart :-) We seem to 
need this!

Use case: display the categories a news message belongs to and each 
category name is also a link to an overview with the news items in this 
category.
This can currently be done if the data is supplied as delimeter 
separated lists in several fields and involves clever use of split, 
listNum, etc.

> Please find enclosed a possible patch to do that.

Looks good!

Can we have a 'data' property to set the source of the data? E.g. with 
the news items record, a field contains an array of category data. With 
the 'data' property we can load that category data into the ARRAY_LOOP 
(or whatever its name should be) object.

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Jigal van Hemert
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