[Typo3-shop] more than 1 shop in a site

[Franz Holzinger]

Hello Vladimir,

>>A better solution however would be to replace the name 'tt_products' with 
>>$_EXT in all php-files. Tell me, if you want to do this.
>>
Ooops, $_EXTKEY must be used.

> 
> Thanks for the answer.
> Since this is the better solution I will gladly use it. What I have to do 
> after renaming the files?

Before renaming the files, you should rename in the php-files where 
'tt_products' has been used to $_EXTKEY. This is usefull because you 
will need it with your newly created extension and it will make it easy 
in the future to upgrade to a newer version. This means that there will 
not be found the name tt_products anymore.

After that you email me these files (as a ZIP-file) so I can bring them 
in into the next version higher 2.0.1. Wait until the next version 2.0.1 
of tt_products has been published. It is planned for this Saturday.

Then decide whether you want to use also separate database tables.
ext_tables.sql ext_tables.php give the names of them.

So rename
tt_products --> yourextension
tt_products_cat --> yourextension_cat
sys_products_orders --> sys_yourextension_orders
sys_products_orders_mm_tt_products --> 
sys_yourextension_orders_mm_yourextension

Create macros for the table names in ext_localconf.php!

if (!defined ('TABLE_products')) {
	define('TABLE_products', $_EXTKEY);
}

if (!defined ('TABLE_products_cat')) {
	define('TABLE_products_cat', $_EXTKEY.'_cat');
}

.
.
.

if (!defined ('TABLE_sys_products_orders_mm_tt_products')) {
	define('TABLE_sys_products_orders_mm_tt_products', 
'TABLE_sys_'.$_EXTKEY.'_orders_mm_'.$_EXTKEY);
}

But tt_products naming is a bit not adaptable for this.
So include an if around this.

if ($_EXTKEY == 'tt_products) {
if (!defined ('TABLE_products')) {
	define('TABLE_products', 'tt_products');
}
.
.
.
if (!defined ('TABLE_sys_products_orders_mm_tt_products')) {
	define('TABLE_sys_products_orders_mm_tt_products', 
'sys_products_orders_mm_tt_products');
}
}


Then the real table names must be replaced in all php-files (esp. 
tca.php) by the defined macros from above.
But the improvement would be great. Everyone would have to adapt only 
this file, rename class.tx_ttproducts.php and maybe it is necessary to 
rename also the 'class tx_ttproducts'. But then the shops would use 
different database tables and be really independant from each other.

The table field names should remain the same.

Greetings,

Franz