[TYPO3-english] Extending TCA the 6.1 way

[Stephan Schuler]

Hey there.


I just stumbled across some changes in 6.1 that feel pretty nice but are not completely documented.
One of them is the new way of creating TCA.

Some online resources [1] tell ne to create files like EXT:{extkey}/Configuration/TCA/{tablename}.php and make them return the tables TCA.
This makes adding new tables via ext_tables.php obsolete, as well as the dynamicConfigFile.

Well, I cannot find any official documentation about this. Instead, the current Core API [2] tells me to use ext_tables.php.


Using the TCA/{tablename}.php file that returns the TCA for that file works pretty well and looks nice. So I would like to stick to that.


But what’s the current way of extending existing tables?
My first idea was to just create e.g. a file called “pages.php” that returns only a part of pages TCA. I was hoping that the core mechanism would array_merge_recursive. But that seems to be not the case, the result reduces the pages TCA to my column only.

So, what to do now? Should I create TCA/{tablename}.php files for my very own tables without ext_tables.php on the one side but add extending code to the ext_tables.php on the other side?


[1] http://typo3.org/fileadmin/t3org/images/FM-news/2013/releases/TYPO3-v6-1-whats-new.pdf, page 34
[2]: http://docs.typo3.org/TYPO3/CoreApiReference/ExtensionArchitecture/FilesAndLocations/Index.html


Kind regards,

Stephan Schuler
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