[TYPO3] need some advice on designing plugin

[Ries van Twisk]

You will have a hard time making the 40 tables work correctly with  
the TCA.

I would suggest make a couple of BE modules that can help you manage the
data 'non typo3' Since you have a lot of articles.
you might want to have special tools for organizing this efficiently.

The list module is not know for efficiently handling a large a mouth  
of records.

Ries


On Jun 5, 2007, at 9:06 AM, Ralph Grier wrote:

> Hello List,
>
> I am about to sit down to write a plugin for typo3, and I would be
> interested in your thoughts about where to begin.  Basically I have a
> database consisting of about 40 tables.  The main table stores  
> actual news
> articles and the auxiliary tables store things like languages,  
> country of
> relevance, themes, related action items and so on.  My question is,  
> since I
> already have a database structure with data in it (approx 20000  
> articles
> plus all the auxiliary entries), does it make more sense to do a  
> plugin from
> scratch or to try to fit that database into something like  
> tt_news.   I'd
> like people on the backend (editors) to be able to insert a   
> <whatever I
> call the plugin> element on the page and through a flexforms interface
> choose for example what country's news should appear and what topic  
> an so
> on.
>
> Given that I already have an existing database I have to work with,  
> what
> would be your recommendations.  Thank you.
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