[TYPO3-mvc] Extbase: Retrieving data from a custom table defined at runtime

[Mathias Bolt Lesniak, liliO Design]

Hi!

I'm working on learning Extbase and like it very much. I'm working on a project which gives me a nice introduction to different parts of it. One of the features has led me to a problem I would love to be able to solve through Extbase - but after trying for a while to find a place to start in the source code of Extbase, I've made no mentionable progress. Here's what I'm trying to do:

The user should be able to configure at table name and fields in TypoScript, so I can pull out (and later change) data in that table. This means I can't pre-make the model, but would have to do something similar at runtime.

What is the best way to achieve this within Extbase? (In the good old SQL days it wouldn't have been to hard.)


I reckon this is e.g. also useful for storing form data in custom database tables.

Hope you can help! :-)


Best wishes

Mathias Bolt Lesniak
LiliO Design - www.lilio.com
mathias at lilio.com