[TYPO3-mvc] NumberChoiceViewHelper

[Christian Zenker]

Hi.

>> Since i like symfony very much, i converted the
>> NumberChoiceViewHelper of symfony to fluid.
Yeah, that sounded familiar. :)

> But I don't think, that the notation of the conditions follows the
> general approach of fluid.

You are right.
But there are good reasons why I find this viewHelper very helpfull *at  
this time* (although I'm not using it in any extension right now).

First: Why reinvent the wheel if there is an open-source solution that has  
been tested for more than 5 years and is still helpful today?

Secondly, let's assume you manage some user accounts through your extbase  
extension and would like to display when a user was seen for the last  
time. If you'd like to display strings just like "online right now", "a  
few minutes ago", "today", "this week", etc. - well... do that with the  
current If-, Then- and ElseViewHelper. Good luck :)

The thing is we need an ElseIfViewHelper and a rework for the condition  
property of the IfViewHelper (or to be more precise the boolean-evaluator)  
to do something like the above use case to make the numberChoiceViewHelper  
obsolete.

I guess someone has already put some (brain) work into those two  
issues...(?) If not, I would volunteer to do that.

Christian.



PS: In Symfony this viewHelper is part of the l18n-package, but I could  
not find any example where foreign languages would have to use different  
intervals. Maybe someone (who knows more languages then me) has an example  
for that?