[TYPO3-mvc] List Module - ExtJs vs TCA Engine

[Sebastien Laroche]

Hi Chistian,

So, if you want a customized module with an ExtJS list and you want to
plug each records/rows to a TCEFORM for editing, how you do that? Do
you redirect the user in the list module with the specific edit form
with a back url for returning to your module or you initialize a
TCEFORM all by your own in your controller/action edit view, with all
the palettes and stuff? I am a little bit confused with alt_doc.php,
alt_palette.php (depricated since 4.5), backend.php and so on....

Thank for the help.
Sébastien

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 4:49 AM, "Christian Müller (Kitsunet)"
<christian.mueller at typo3.org> wrote:
> Hey Sébastien,
>
> the list view in TYPO3v5 will be based on ExtJS alone as the whole backend.
> In the current development version it is very basic and based on a grid
> component, still that is the way to go. It gets its data from an ExtDirect
> service on the server side.  We haven't defined a replacement for TCA yet
> but we have started a simple form abstraction with ExtJS that should finally
> provide something similar to TCAForms now. We plan to introduce "widgets" to
> edit certain types of properties with a default configuration but of course
> everything will be configurable. So for TYPO3v5 you would be on the right
> way to do it.
>
> In v4 TCA makes form creation just so much easier that I have so far decided
> against building fully customized forms. What I have done is replacing the
> default TCA elements for custom ones by using "user" as type when necessary.
>
> Christian
>
> On 29.04.2011 17:12, Sebastien Laroche wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I have many modules that were developed with the new MVC patterns
>> (base on extbase) and I have used ExtJs to increase the user
>> experience because most of the time clients are not really satisfied
>> by the basic list module interface. All work fine, but it takes more
>> time to develop each module instead of using the list module with
>> auto-generated form by TCA Engine to edit the records ( I am using
>> ExtJS for listing in a grid view and a custom ExtJS form to edit
>> records). Also, by taking this approach, I lost the advantage of using
>> I.R.R.E for relating objects when dependence occurs. So, am I on the
>> best way to do it?  Is it better to have more control in a customized
>> form with MVC and validators instead of taking advantage of TCA
>> Engine? Is there someone that know how the basic list module will be
>> implemented in TYPO3v5?
>>
>> What is your opinion?
>> Thank you for all the information.
>> Have a good day
>> Sébastien
>
>
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