[TYPO3-english] T3 6.2, Images and [FE][activatecontentadapter]

[Jigal van Hemert]

Hi,

On 12-5-2014 8:49, hansz wrote:
> However, reading up a bit further on the [FE][activateContentAdapter]
> setting it seems this significantly seems to slow T3 down. Now the
> question  is ... what does this setting do to solve my initial problem,
> and why don't things work when it is disabled ? ...

In 6.0 FAL was introduced to abstract access to files. For TYPO3 it no 
longer matters where files are stored (local / flickr / dropbox / ...) 
as the driver of a storage will handle the actual operations.
This means that like with DAM earlier, files are now represented by 
records which contain some metadata.

To render files a new FILES content object in TypoScript is created [1].

The option [FE][activateContentAdapter] will fill during runtime some of 
the fields from the past with compatible information:
tt_content, image : image, titleText, imagecaption, image_link, altText
tt_content, media: media, imagecaption
pages,media: media
Because these fields are added to record data at runtime it slows down 
the frontend. If you adjust the TypoScript that it supports the new FAL 
structures you can disable this option (because you don't need those old 
(virtual) fields) and rendering becomes faster again.

[1] 
http://docs.typo3.org/typo3cms/TyposcriptReference/ContentObjects/Files/Index.html

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