[TYPO3-mvc] shared partials - or let us be able to set a "extensionkey" for f:render

[Steffen Ritter]

Am 26.10.2010 02:40, schrieb Franz Koch:
> Hey list,
>
> I'm currently working on a website where three extensions work together.
> One extension providing basic/generic models, functions and viewHelpers
> (like for rendering contact informations of persons), another one is
> extending the main extension and reusing parts of it, and of course the
> main extension itself.
> Now I wan't to be able to use partials from my generic extension in all
> templates as well as partials of my main extension in my extending one.
>
> I know that I could change the partial folders of all extension to a
> dedicated folder and create copies of the partials there, but I don't
> like that for several reasons:
>
> - I dislike having my generic partials spread and have to keep track of
> changes in order to merge them in my trunk version
> - When I think of TER extensions, I would always have to copy their
> probably new partials to my folder, only because I want to reuse them
> unchanged only because I'm also rendering a model of this extension that
> should have the very same look
>
> So my proposal would be to add a new parameter "extensionKey" (or alike)
> to the "render" viewHelper that allows to define from which extension
> configuration the partial/template shall be resolved. Might also be
> useful for widgets (so they may come some day).
>
> What do you think?

Why don't you just define the same PartialStorage Path for all 
Extensions? Like put all partials in Fileadmin...